Gnads wrote on Sep 12
th, 2024 at 2:52pm:
Basic training & you're talking "battle".
Lives lost & injuries??
Did you shoot someone?
No wonder they don't talk to you.
BTW after finishing basic training .. you aren't a returned soldier. That only happens if you pass basic and get sent overseas.
Learn how to spell Shoal.
Forgot to add - Basic Training take longer than a week...... were you there as a school cadet?
Basic training started when I was 12 years old. First aid. Orientation. How to fire a rifle. Parade. It is the rite of adulthood for any CQlder who lives or works near rural areas. Even the ladies have a go at all that basic training. Some even progress to become medics and technicians, in support roles.
I learned how to do sniper training when I was 18 years old. A week long basic training course that would take years of practice to perfect. Warrant Officer said that I was a natural.
Have you ever fired a Lee Enfield .303 at 1000 yards and hit a clay target the size of a dinner plate? I have. It is not too difficult in low wind conditions. Most people have skill "no scoping" targets at 500 metres. Others have luck.
In 1997, I have had sufficient training as a teenager to have the ability to be deployed in East Timor. The Warrant Officer (WO1) -- a Vietnam Veteran -- encouraged me to sign up for official duties. Had I known what was going to happen in Indonesia, I would have joined up. Then again, I probably would have been a conscientious objector.
Amazingly, I was given another go at the basic training. By this time, I had 8 years of experience in my adulthood. I worked at a hospital for about 2 months. Then I did some easy work with the Qld police force. They had me in the surveillance room, working at watching monitors for 4 hour shifts. Man, I love my coffee these days.
Now, I just work at washing up at restaurants and doing Uber deliveries.
What bollocks .. it was Cadets ... I thought so