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Life in the Australian Army
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 8:13 pm    Post subject: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

Life in the Australian Army...

Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (For Those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a smalltown, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland )

Dear Mum & Dad,

I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am . But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!

At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back paddock!!

This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody possum's bum and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!

Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.

I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.

Your loving daughter,

Sheila
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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:27 pm    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

Just a few notes in way of explanation for Radar's post:

Eromanga is a smalltown, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland- about 1500km West of the State Capitol where I live...still in the same State though.

buggered - means tired...not what ya thinkin

Ekka - The annual Exhibition Show in Brisbane for the country folks where they display their livestock etc

it's a piece of piss!! - means about as easy as it can get.

boozer - Bar...where they serve up copious quantities of beer...a great place

Thanks Radar...a great post mate.

Cheers, Vince

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PostPosted: Mon May 10, 2010 10:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

No. Thank you Vince, I forgot to include a glossary of terms for our vernacular. Cheers mate
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PostPosted: Tue May 11, 2010 3:45 am    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

Vince, it was fun trying to figure it out. Thanks for the confirmation.

Radar, thanks for the smile today.

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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 9:35 am    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

Oh I have never known what exactly a "stone" was equal to in weight. The rest I pretty much figured out. Thanks to the EXCELLENT teachings of those "blokes" on here from that side of the world.

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PostPosted: Sun May 23, 2010 5:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

1 stone is 14 pounds.

So for me, I'm 6ft 2in and 16 stone. Laughing

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:22 am    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

Your a big guy! Did you play rugby?
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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 7:51 am    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

I did bit, played a bit of football too.

I'd like to eventually get back down to 14 stone or so though (195 pounds) like I was last spring. Laughing

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PostPosted: Mon May 24, 2010 4:39 pm    Post subject: Re: Life in the Australian Army Reply with quote

Dimitri wrote:
played a bit of football too.

Would that be American Football or Soccer (what the world calls football)?

I thought the Canadians skipped american-style football and just started the hockey season early.
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