MILKY BAR KID By Mark Wicks, 5/7 RAR MILKY BAR KID By Mark Wicks, 5/7 RAR Posted at August 30, 2018 in 1992 - 2000, Uncategorized by admin Comments Off on MILKY BAR KID By Mark Wicks, 5/7 RAR Back in 1997 in 5/7 RAR, a few of us got posted to Signals Platoon in Support Company. The corporals wanted us new blokes to get up and give a bit of a talk about ourselves so that the platoon could get to know us a bit. Anyway, we all got up and said our […]
STOP MONKEYING AROUND By Stephen Norton, 2/4 RAR STOP MONKEYING AROUND By Stephen Norton, 2/4 RAR Posted at August 30, 2018 in 16+ Language Warning, 1992 - 2000 by admin Comments Off on STOP MONKEYING AROUND By Stephen Norton, 2/4 RAR In 1993 A coy 2/4 RAR were out patrolling in a rubber plantation. It came time to harbour up for the night. All the sections split up, taking different harbour sights for the night. At about 2200 hr there was this screaming as if someone was being killed in a horrible way. As we only […]
GO GET THE FLAG By Darren Townsend 5 RAR GO GET THE FLAG By Darren Townsend 5 RAR Posted at August 30, 2018 in 16+ Language Warning, 1992 - 2000 by admin Comments Off on GO GET THE FLAG By Darren Townsend 5 RAR Timor Nov ’99 Interfet, 8 Pl, C Coy of the mighty Tiger Battalion (5 RAR) was on guard at the soccer stadium and distributing rice to the natives. Across the road was a comms building with satellite dishes in the back, all fenced up with barbed wire at the top of the perimeter walls. It […]
BOREDOM IN BARRACKS By Steven D’Cunha, B Coy 4 RAR BOREDOM IN BARRACKS By Steven D’Cunha, B Coy 4 RAR Posted at August 30, 2018 in 1992 - 2000 by admin Comments Off on BOREDOM IN BARRACKS By Steven D’Cunha, B Coy 4 RAR RCB trip to Malaysia with B Coy 4 RAR in 1996. We travelled to Hua Hin, Thailand as a company to work with the Thais. Most of the day went in demos – both ours and theirs. There seemed to be a lot of downtime as we lay around the barracks during the day. We […]
