BigOl64 wrote on Jul 11
th, 2017 at 4:18pm:
Brian Ross wrote on Jul 11
th, 2017 at 3:50pm:
Vic wrote on Jul 9
th, 2017 at 1:29pm:
Oh, dear. I don't suppose I should mention the unit I was attached to on K-84 which had mixed ablutions in the field? We all showered together, there were no complaints. Americans and many older people here seem to have missed out...
You pogues are one of a kind with your transgender ablutions and it's fancy bathing water., It must be tough back in the rear with all gear.
Must have been really, really, hard out at Williamstown near Newcastle with your F-111 strapped on each hip, mate. The Brylcreem designed to keep the hair out of your eyes, was it?
When you actually get out in the field, you can talk. I transferred from Infantry to Ordnance because I found Infantry pretty boring. As a digger, all you learnt was contact and counter-ambush drills and the only thing that changed was the hill you ran up or down. Ordnance I learnt how to be a Storeman. Tech., a Clerk, Tech., a Storeman, Gen., a rough-terrain forklift driver, a Mobile Shower Operator, a PetOp, a driver and an NCO and a CQMS. I moved around the countryside a lot more, met strange and different people and learnt how to kill them.
In today's Army, women are treated exactly the same as the men (in theory). Same in the other two defence forces, I understand, even the RAAF. In the US, their society is pretty stuffed. They can't seem to get out of their macho, mano a mano childhoods. Even in 1984, it was a noticeable problem. Womens' Liberation was supposed to fix that. Obviously it failed there.