by SuperAdmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
As keen as the government of the day was to conscript young men into the army, the army was keen to get complete nutters out. They weren’t good for discipline, hard to intimidate into compliance and a distraction. A Nasho recruit was observed spending all his spare...
by SuperAdmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
The mess hall at Kapooka was an impressive building. It could feed 1,200 men at a single sitting on 30 tables of 40 men. Our first encounter with it, as recruits, was when we were marched in for the evening meal on our conscription day. There we were. 48 rag tag...
by SuperAdmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
Sadly, a young National Serviceman’s mother died suddenly while he was undertaking basic training. The unit Commanding Officer called the Regimental Sergeant Major and asked him to break the news to recruit Jones. The RSM advised Jones’ Platoon Sergeant that he would...
by SuperAdmin | Apr 7, 2022 | Yarns & Jokes
1 Recruit Training Battalion, Kapooka, is where I did my army basic training. It’s just out of Wagga Wagga in southern NSW. 1 RTB is where all regular non-officer soldiers do their basic training. Between 1965 and 1972 it also trained National Service conscripts from...
by SuperAdmin | Mar 31, 2022 | Story
I’ll start my story with a little background of my early life. Hope to indulge your patience. The relevance will become obvious later. I come from what I would call a dysfunctional family, my mother died when I was 6 years old. After which my father, two-year old...
