On 8 October 2007, Trooper David Pearce was killed while on active service in Orūzgān Province, Afghanistan. He was the second Australian to be killed in Afghanistan. On 30 August 2012, Lance Corporal Stjepan Milosevic, 40, from the Regiment was killed – along with Private Robert Poate, 23, from 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (6 RAR) and Sapper James Martin, 21, from 2nd Combat Engineer Regiment (2 CER) – by an Afghan National Army soldier in a 'green on blue' incident at a patrol base north of Tarin Kowt.