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Lest we forget those that also serve in peacetime
May 4th, 2017 at 8:20pm
 
Seems one digger has paid, the ultimate price, for the ADF.   Lest we forget those that also serve in peacetime.    Sad
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Reply #1 - May 5th, 2017 at 9:49am
 


It is a dangerous job, even in peacetime


RIP ol' Mate
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Reply #2 - May 5th, 2017 at 5:58pm
 
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Reply #3 - May 10th, 2017 at 11:23pm
 
Another digger dies.  Lest we forget.   Embarrassed
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Reply #4 - May 11th, 2017 at 9:28am
 
Brian Ross wrote on May 10th, 2017 at 11:23pm:
Another digger dies.  Lest we forget.   Embarrassed



Time to wind off the tempo a bit I think. The peacetime death rate for training never used be this high, what the hell is going on?

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Reply #5 - May 12th, 2017 at 5:51pm
 
BigOl64 wrote on May 11th, 2017 at 9:28am:
Brian Ross wrote on May 10th, 2017 at 11:23pm:
Another digger dies.  Lest we forget.   Embarrassed


Time to wind off the tempo a bit I think. The peacetime death rate for training never used be this high, what the hell is going on?


It's a young person's game nowadays, BigOl64.  The older diggers and NCOs are all retired.  With their weeding out, goes institutional memory.  It used to be much worse than this during the Vietnam War.  I remember reading the Training Bulletins which the Army published and they contained on their back cover a list of the accidents for the last 3 months.   Some very nasty ones in the late 1960s, early 1970s.   Worst I read was a mortar being deployed under some trees, firing through the trees.  Problem was the branches were just above the arming distance for the mortar rounds.  Two mortar rounds were fired, two detonated just above the crews of the Mortars.   1 dead, 5 wounded.    Sad
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Reply #6 - May 12th, 2017 at 5:56pm
 
I remember reading how the 500 men died in Vietnam. There were a couple of deaths from Russian Roulette. One guy died when a round ricocheted of a palm tree. Vehicle accidents etc Several American  nurses were murdered by soldiers. It was a dirty war.
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Reply #7 - May 12th, 2017 at 9:01pm
 
Mr Hammer wrote on May 12th, 2017 at 5:56pm:
I remember reading how the 500 men died in Vietnam. There were a couple of deaths from Russian Roulette. One guy died when a round ricocheted of a palm tree. Vehicle accidents etc Several American  nurses were murdered by soldiers. It was a dirty war.


Full list of lossed during the Vietnam War for Australian Forces.
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Reply #9 - May 26th, 2017 at 5:55pm
 
Brian Ross wrote on May 12th, 2017 at 5:51pm:
BigOl64 wrote on May 11th, 2017 at 9:28am:
Brian Ross wrote on May 10th, 2017 at 11:23pm:
Another digger dies.  Lest we forget.   Embarrassed


Time to wind off the tempo a bit I think. The peacetime death rate for training never used be this high, what the hell is going on?


It's a young person's game nowadays, BigOl64.  The older diggers and NCOs are all retired.  With their weeding out, goes institutional memory.  It used to be much worse than this during the Vietnam War.  I remember reading the Training Bulletins which the Army published and they contained on their back cover a list of the accidents for the last 3 months.   Some very nasty ones in the late 1960s, early 1970s.   Worst I read was a mortar being deployed under some trees, firing through the trees.  Problem was the branches were just above the arming distance for the mortar rounds.  Two mortar rounds were fired, two detonated just above the crews of the Mortars.   1 dead, 5 wounded.    Sad



We were losing aircrew at a phenomenal rate during the 80's and early 90s, due to the high operational tempo that some genius decided we could maintain. Throw in the slow deaths for maintainers due to various chemical exposures and peace time service was all that safe.

But do what you are told when you are told, and be happy about it.  Smiley

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