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If you know where to look that is. Me, I'm scratching my head with a stick. But here what i'm thinking, its solid large form make it look fairly cheap and nasty, none of the refinement you'd find in post-war German, American or british design so i spent an hour last night looking through...

Thanks very much. I didnt know him, but i wish i had. He seems very much like my kind of bloke and a soldier who really wanted to be doing what he was doing.

Hmm, but which place do you miss? And do you miss moving from it ever few years?  ;D

Yeah, well its been so hot here today we might have a thunder storm tonight! Terrible... I wish i was over there for my Christmas holidays, i've never seen real snow before, i reckon it'd be quite nice. Not sure how's i'd go with dropping the temp +50 degree's and getting some -25 Celsius...

Cheers. I'd found that but that seems to be about it. It was on a news for a little bit here last week or so but i havent been able to read anything about it. Seems quite sad that the Australian Press arent writing about him because he was in the British Army and the British Press arent writing...

To the very best of my understanding, a bushmaster is a bushmaster is a bushmaster. I dont know of any variants of them and while looking through B 3/4's compound a month ago i saw no trace. They must still be invisible. Like I always say, the T50 turret was always supposed to be an interim...

Can anyone find a link about Fusilier Stuart Nash? He's the second last British Soldier to be killed overseas, is Australian and my google-fu is letting me down. I cant find any articles about him

I can pretend!

Your absolutely right about what you get and what you need. I think everyone here knows about it! The AS4's are to be heading to 5 & 7 RAR, 1st Armoured and, as i understand it, CSR in Darwin because, as you say, Darwin is a mechanised brigade. However, the army have just ordered another 80 and...

On top of the Infantry battalions, the Cavalry will need to change too. We can assume that there'll be no change to 1st Armoured Regiment seeing as they've got their "retro" M1A1's. For a start, for the RAAC to stay a power we'll need to finally acquire enough ASLAV's for the two Regiments and...

Dont stress at all mate! Especially if your old 3Cav. I'm an ex bucket head myself. I wasnt having a go at all, sorry if thats the inference you got.

Way too keen!  ;D I've just knocked off work for the day and am drinking tea while constantly blowing my nose. 3 Days till Christmas leave and i've got a really bad cold. Has to be the worst bit of luck EVER. Oh, and i'm working on my AFV id so that one day i too can match it with a few of the...

As has already been stated 2/14 Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) is the oldest Regular Armoured Corp Regiment in Australia. Whether Dodger wants to argue over A Sqn, 10th Light Horse being better is totally irrelevent and pointless as it'd be an argument over a Reserve Squadron...

The village is still there! Looking just like "Viet-thailand" in the heavy rains when i was there. We had annoying villagers hassling us about malaria while we were fighting through. My secco refused my advice, "Do the vill, do the whole stinking vill!" after they wouldnt leave me alone. I think...

Water not beer you say? Hmm, better look into that then... For the friendly Canadian readers out there, Overwatch Downunder is talking about the parade rehearsal that our (my?) Light Horse Regiment did today. 90minutes in the sun and the boys were dropping like flies. We had 5 in my Squadron...

Jungle warfare is the best thing you can ever imagine.  :warstory: Sweating buckets, mozzies so big they'll drink your blood, steal your food and steal the smallest section member, bugs bigger then my bed, never enough water, never being able to sleep, not seeing the bad guys until your about 2m...

Its funny isnt it? The way language and speech become independant of the original influence. If i hadnt had an Irish mother i'd have been in a hell of a lot of trouble hanging out with Newfies when i was in Canada, but as it my mums accent helped me get it pretty quick. When i was in Ireland...

Unreal mate, sounds bonza! Hows that Canadian translator going?

As a cavalry dismount, i work, almost always with LAV's within direct support. For us, the biggest part of it is the ground we're moving through and the fire support behind us. I teach the boys to use cover and pick fire positions appropriate to the ground around us. Our job is to find the enemy...

Every day i wear that shirt to work i get asked that question and chap's are more then willing to tell me how they reckon it happened. Get your mind out of the gutter!