Did I ever tell you, the 60's weren't my Best Years.

[muffett.2008]

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

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[Peter Laidler]

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..........

[CINDERS]

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......

[browningautorifle]

I was walking around like a mincer with my hand on my waist.

Shoalwater bay/Canungra where I was eaten alive by anti-pom midges as big as mess tins.

I don't recall having trouble with them in Canungra, I guess they ate their fill of you...nice.

[muffett.2008]

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.

[browningautorifle]

the Drop Bears

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...

[henry r]

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.

[browningautorifle]

If only they had listened and put vegemite on thier faces.

Yup.

[muffett.2008]

Then there were my formative years..........Cadets.
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[browningautorifle]

That would have been quite the time. Given the time frame, some of the guys involved would have only been about half sane.