Jungle Warfare

[2 Cdo]

In Apr 1984 the 3rd battalion PPCLI sent a platoon of troops to Australia for 2 months in order to conduct Jungle Warfare. It took place up near Cairns and Tully in Nothern Queensland at their Jungle Warfare School. Without a doubt it was the best time I had in the army outside of the Airborne Regiment. I think it would be great to bring back this type of training which involves all your troops rather than mechanized crap which really only exercises your command eschelon.
I know some people will have a problem with me stating this but unless you've been a troopie sitting in the back of a carrier sleeping most of the exercise away you wouldn't understand!

 

[Jungle]

Hey 2 CDO, nice to see you here. Welcome to the site.
I was in Tully in 1999, during workup for East Timor. I didn't do the course there, as there was not enough time, but we went through some of the basics with them, and Recce Pl received extra trg in tracking techniques.
Tully is also where they filmed the first "Sniper" movie.