Aussie Junk.

[Peter Laidler]

Makes you cringe.......... Just to think that on ops they were just sliding across the floor or across your lap - or just jammed anywhere when the roads and tracks were just a mass of churned up red bulldust! We called it 'the laterite mororways......'. Laterite was a thick red dust that blew for miles in every direction when the sun was out. But turned to thick deep red mud when the monsoons came in........

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[browningautorifle]

Just to think that on ops they were just sliding across the floor or across your lap

My first trip overseas, we took our rifles in the pressurized passenger cabin with us. A Boeing 707 with 120 men in it...all smoking and roaming around for the 18 odd hour trip. The rifles were literally everywhere, including (gasp) underfoot...