One Christmas in Okinawa.

[A. F Medic]

I believe it was 1968. As for the clap, one got 2.4 milion units of penicillin IM. (butt). Then repeat on three days. Injection left you with an apple shaped bump on your bum. If it was sphyllis, you got a stay in the hospital with a IV drip.

[browningautorifle]

I remember when the shots gave way to 14 capsules...after you took those, you were full and didn't need a couple of meals (I heard)...

[Peter Laidler]

I was in Singapore then, ready to join up with a new batch of blokes going up Country to 8 RAR(?) and being a pom, it was the first time I had seen a Policeman carrying a pistol. We were pretty well legless somewhere close to Bugis (boogey) street and this Singapore cop told me to get myself and my mates back home (to Nee Soon, the transit camp). I said to him words to the effect that I couldn't get myself home, let alone these others....... One of the others, who turned out to be a great mate and bloke, George Lendich told me not to argue as he had a gun......... He did too and I didn't argue............... Good times....... not really. Only when you look back I suppose!

[bigduke6]

daily penicillin jab in the ar......... er....., bottom

Wish I had been a bit more like you Peter and done the bit for needy and took the bible classes in my younger days at sea, always one to throw caution to the wind when in port, I used to get in some states drinking in bars very much like the ones in AF Medic,s pics, always got back to the ship regardless of how much was consumed (usually enough to float a ship) and lucky enough not to get a dose or any other elements but the Jab does remind me of Mauritius......

I had a bad case of dermatitis on the inside of the forearm and wasn't getting better, so was sent back up to the med centre when we pulled in to Port louis (I,d been there a few times before regarding the dermatits) , a bottle of anti biotic's was prescribed and had to have a jab.... so there I was lying face down with my arse in the air waiting for a nurse, considering I had seen some of the nurses before it was a hit miss regaring looks the last one had a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp, so just as I was thinking about the worst scenario, in walk two stunning young female nurses.... that combined with their short white very tight starched uniforms certainly give me a warm feeling in my loins, of course after getting the jab and getting the pants back on it was quite obvious to one of the nurses regarding my loins and just as I was leaving (bright red with embarrassment) she said " I,m finishing shortly do you want to go for a drink" , I have never been one to refuse a drink......

[Peter Laidler]

While we were at somewhere hot (funny feeling it was at a place called Rockhampton.....) I had a xxxxxxg great big boil festering right in my right armpit. I went to the MO (the Medical Officer), a Nasho Doctor called Aubrey Kerr who said that it was too late for penicillin so told me to get it dressed by the medic and come back tomorrow or the next day - unless it burst by itself - and he'd lance it.

So you can imagine it already...... For the next couple of days there I was walking everywhere with my right arm on my waist trying to keep the sweat and heat away from this festering boil that was as sore as hell. And try as you might, you can't help walking like a bit of a mincer or shirt-lifter. I just can't repeat the comments which everyone except me thought were absolutely hilarious but the funniest I recall was someone who shouted across the dining room (it was a shack really.......) Oi, Pom, where's your roll of carpet'!. The MO lanced it the next day. No anaesthetic just a sharp scalpel thinggy and out it popped. But he did give me a few days off for the grief and pain I'd endured from you cruel antipodeans