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Just sorting through the old junk, came across a box full of old Pams...........besides wasting my time re reading them, I came to the conclusion that they were really a snapshot of my Service life.......some of which I would prefer to forget.
How many of you Aussie Nasho's remember this one?
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This was the early Issue, the later edition had the F1 and the M26 Grenade, I guess it dates me a bit:)
Good to see Muffer but I don't remember that nasho handbook. But as I wasn't a Nasho and never went to Kapooka. Was it Kapooka..... I forget a lot of the places now unless they were particularly gruesone, like Shoalwater bay/Canungra where I was eaten alive by anti-pom midges as big as mess tins.
It was nice to see an Owen again at Warminster that hadn't been stripped or cleaned since it came to England in the late 40's because noone had worked it out properly! Unmodified since the 40's and still in BFA yellow and khaki whereas the ones out there were black.
Something else...... Up there I had a huge boil in my arm pit and as nothing would ever stick there, a soothing plaster was useless. The medic at the RAP just told me to keep my arm slightly raised so that the air could circulate, keep it dry and the Med Officer would lance it the next day or when it was ready. So for the next day I was walking around like a mincer with my hand on my waist. They were a cruel bunch..........
Never let it be said Peter that Aussies are not slow to take the p*ss given the opportunity, if you held a cup of tea in the other hand bloke they would have a right old stitch up on you......:p
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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
I don't recall having trouble with them in Canungra, I guess they ate their fill of you...nice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
Good to hear Pete, I once did an exercise with a bunch of Poms, camped in a pine forest, all the Pom's slept on the road.
Seems the Drop Bears were bad that year.
My father was the start of this Pam collection, he was with 2/3 Independent Sqn. RAE so his time in service was most intriguing to a young impressionable lad.
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The Jap book still makes interesting reading.
We had a section commander get one in the head one day, spent the evening wandering around talking to people that weren't there. We medivaced him...2 i/c carry on...Quote:
Originally Posted by muffett.2008
He was bloody lucky then. When i was in scouts we had guys 2 killed. If only they had listened and put vegemite on thier faces.
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Originally Posted by henry r
Then there were my formative years..........Cadets.
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That would have been quite the time. Given the time frame, some of the guys involved would have only been about half sane.
I see Vegemite is back in OZ hands, Bega Cheese bought it back along with other Kraft Products.
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Men At Work - Down Under - YouTube i remember when the song was playing on the radio, and they said vegemite sandwich was made from road paving material:lol:
That'd be a really interesting booklet - wonder if it would be possible/permissable to have it scanned so there's a digital copy available for historians and researchers?
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Great music. The land down under, where the women blow and the men chunder*......... Or is it plunder? My kind of place
Did you start in the RE's Muffer? That looks like RE or assault pioneer stuff. Well beyond my pay grade.
* chunder: Feel a bit under the weather!
Pioneers Pete.
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The Soldiers Handbook wasn't just issued to the Nasho's as a Reg Recruit I were issued it at Kapooka on basic trg, not a bad read for a newby actually.
Dick