Artillery, (air defense) back in 96. Initial training after boot camp was in Manly.
It's now the Biggest Loser house. Beautiful spot on the cliffs.
Yourself?
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Artillery, (air defense) back in 96. Initial training after boot camp was in Manly.
It's now the Biggest Loser house. Beautiful spot on the cliffs.
Yourself?
A drop short,lol. I was a meat head, dumb grunt in 8/9 RAR 87-90.
Dropshorts were field artillery. They called us cloud punchers :)
Haven't heard that one before, When did you get out?
96-97, then meant to do four years of reserves, but didn't bother with it.
It was called the Ready Reserve Scheme and was designed to fill a gap year between school and uni.
They canned it not long after I enlisted.
Those of us from Adelaide were put on the missiles and posted to Woodside in the Adelaide Hills for the second half of the year.
I would have re-enlisted for four years if I'd known East Timor was going to happen.
If course if I knew then what I know now I wouldn't have joined up in the first place :)
Yeah I remember the Ready Reseves, When I signed up it was 3 years or 6, so I thought I would try it out for 3 to see what it was like. They brought in open end enlistment half way through my 3 years term, which was just sign up for 4 years and give 6 months notice when you wanted to get out. After initial training I was posted to Enoggera Brisbane, were I stayed until I got out. Cheers