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Master and Commander
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Life in the Australian Army...
Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad. (For Those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small town, west of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland )
Dear Mum & Dad
I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better than workin' on the station - tell them to get in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody horses to get in, no calves to feed, no troughs to clean - nothin'!! Ya haz gotta shower though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot water and even a light to see what ya doing!
At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks or goanna stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon and by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the bullock paddock!!
This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody dingo's arse and it don't move and it's not firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their prize cows before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the target - it's a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges, they come in little boxes, and ya don't have to steady yourself against the rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!
Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real careful coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the muster.
Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm the best the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke from the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.
I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before word gets around how bloody good it is.
Your loving daughter
Sheila
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Plankowner
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Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
LOL... like we know where Quilpie is at... we barely know where OZ is......
I've seen a similar one written about life in the US Army from a hillbilly girl.... still funny..... |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 2357
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yeah probably the same one just altered.
Blue *_* |
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COMSUBBBS
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Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
Ric, Quilpie is one of those places that you can't get there from here. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
I hear if you go down to the gas station on the corner you get there. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1247
Location: Rockingham Western Australia | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
Take a left at Albuquerque! |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
Now we all know....
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 6180
Location: Summerville, SC | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
Notice, if you will, there ain't none of them that little yellow lines leading to Quilpie. That ought to tell you something about the lifestyle thar...not much going in and nothin comin back out.   |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
Ric - 2009-08-26 9:54 AM
LOL... like we know where Quilpie is at... we barely know where OZ is......
I've seen a similar one written about life in the US Army from a hillbilly girl.... still funny.....
Ric,I read the other one a couple of years ago.They are both funny.
Thanks Blue! |
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Great Sage of the Sea
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Location: Visalia, Ca. | Subject: RE: Life in the Australian Army....
I think I have a copy of the Marine version somewhere....
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Life in the Australian Army....
