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The CO has got a Distinguished Service Cross, an Australian Active Service Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Australian Service Medal, Defence Long Service Medal and Australian Defence Medal (Plus the Bronze Star). Also interesting to note that all four uniformed gents in the first row have...

The Victoria Cross is now technically called the Victoria Cross for Australia, but that is the only change. It is still exactly the same medal, ribbon, requirements and post nominals as the imperial award. The medal is still made from the British stock of cannon bronze as well, by agreement...

Think smaller. Australia only has one rifle company in Afghanistan. As I said, the main idea is to get a few more combat personnel into country that don't count under Kevin Rudd's personnel cap. If they go over there a couple of months early and return a couple of months late, who's to know?

Without wanting to nitpick Wes, but I bet the early SECDETs who spent their entire tours out at the flats in the RZ might disagree with that statement. To be sure, my TP SGT was always whinging that it used to be a lot harder.  :) On the topic, I found the mid deployment leave to be a complete...

Whoops, I was talking about the RAS badge as well. Must have slipped in ACB by mistake. All these TLAs must be getting the better of me.

Strange, I only got my ACB this year and it is numbered, around 60 000-odd from memory. Everone else who got one when I did has a numbered one as well. Either they started it up again recently, I was issued an old one, or you got a wierd one.

All the different variants of the Bushmaster exist, its just that they are not very different from the troop carrying version. They are all indistinguishable from the outside (besides an extra antennae or two), and simply have different internal fitouts, not unlike how an ASLAV-PC can turn into...