For those of you who have seen the American’s Viet-Nam Veterans Memorial known as “The Wall, nothing further needs to be said. For you my Australian Brothers who have not seen it, it is the MOST VISITED place in Washington D. C. In that light, my brothers, FOR ALL OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I pass this on to you; Jim Otto

“THE WALL” The night was cold, I was ten years old When the Chaplain made his call. The news was bad, my mother was sad When she heard of my fathers fall. An ambush he said, they all were dead The Role Of RAEME Is To :- The words were shocking and cold. Eight other men died, eight other wives cried " Provide Maintenance Engineering , Materiel Maintenance , For young men who would never grow old. Modifications , and Recovery Support to the Army."

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A list is printed on Page 2 of this copyright 1995 by Kelly Strong journal. [email protected] Post Print PP609596/0002 Volume 10 No. 3 2 31 The RAEME Association of WA (Inc.) “Please be sure to take all of your our compliments.” belongings. If you’re going to leave 12. “As you exit the plane, make sure PO Box 186, Bayswater, WA 6933 anything, please make sure it’s to gather all of your belongings. something we’d like to have. Anything left behind will be distributed Patron Colonel Ernie McCart evenly among the flight attendants. Colonel Commandant: Colonel Mark MacKenzie 4. “There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of Please do not leave children or The RAEME Association Committee this airplane” spouses.” President: John Klein 2 Wicks Street, Eden Hill Ph. 9279 3080 5. “Thank you for flying Delta Business 13. And from the pilot during his Vice President: Peter Humpston 3 Shady Glen Mews Edgewater Ph. 9306 4549 Express. We hope you enjoyed giving welcome message: “Delta Airlines is Secretary: Dick Fenton 4 Harbour Court, Safety Bay Ph: 9528 6860 us the business as much as we enjoyed pleased to have some of the best flight Treasurer: David Cooper 263 Robinson Ave Cloverdale Ph. 9479 1149 taking you for a ride.” attendants in industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight!” Editor: John Curtis 2 Whittaker Street, Bayswater Ph. 9271 4520 6. As the plane landed and was coming 14. Heard on Southwest Airlines just Welfare Officer: Don Horsley 11 Celestine Way, Wanneroo Ph. 9306 2946 to a stop at Ronald Reagan, a lone John Power 34 Adenmore Way, Kingsley Ph. 9309 2780 after a very hard landing in Salt Lake voice came over the loudspeaker: City the flight attendant came on the Chaplain Fr. Howard MacCallum “Whoa, big fella. WHOA!” 39 Rogerson Road, Mt Pleasent Ph. 9364 4948 intercom and said, “That was quite a Physician: Dr. Michael Daly 7. After a particularly rough landing bump, and I know what y’all are Honorary Auditor: Terry Barrett during thunderstorms in Memphis, a thinking. I’m here to tell you it wasn’t flight attendant on a Northwest flight the airline’s fault, it wasn’t the pilot’s General Committee: announced, “Please take care when fault, it wasn’t the flight attendant’s John Curtis 9271 4520 Tom Goodlich 9293 3944 opening the overhead compartments fault, it was the asphalt.” Clare Curtis 9271 4520 Marilyn Goodlich 9293 3944 because, after a landing like that, sure 15. Overheard on an American Airlines Perry Beor 9275 8595 Michael Kerrison 9379 2682 as hell everything has shifted.” flight into Amarillo, Texas, on a Fred Ordynski 9377 1252 Mark Vincent 9307 8725 8. From a Southwest Airlines particularly windy and bumpy day: Lawrie Forsyth 9401 5039 employee: “Welcome aboard During the final approach, the Captain Southwest Flight 245 to Tampa . To was really having to fight it. After an DEADLINE operate your seat belt, insert the metal extremely hard landing, the Flight All contributions for the next edition of THE HORSE’S MOUTH must be with the tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It Attendant said, “Ladies and editor no later than the 23rd of NOVEMBER 2007. works just like every other seat belt; Gentlemen, welcome to Amarillo. and, if you don’t know how to operate Please remain in your seats with your DISCLAIMER one, you probably shouldn’t be out in seat belts fastened while the Captain Thoughts expressed in articles in THE HORSE’S MOUTH are those held by public un-supervised.” taxis what’s left of our airplane to the the writer/contributors and not necessarily those of the Association. 9. “In the event of a sudden loss of cabin gate!” pressure, masks will descend from the 16. An airline pilot wrote that on this From the President, But I would like to see more members ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, particular flight he had hammered his come along to our meetings and see and pull it over your face. If you have a ship into the runway really hard. The Here we are again with a New Year small child travelling with you, secure airline had a policy which required the ahead of us, after just having the Annual for themselves how we get along at the your mask before assisting with theirs. first officer to stand at the door while General Meeting and no change to our Bayswater Hotel and some times it is If you are travelling with more than one the passengers exited, smile, and give committee. We are now in our Tenth a real family affair with good food and small child, pick your favourite.” them a “Thanks for flying our airline.” He said that, in light of his bad landing, Year and let’s hope things will go as not to expensive. We have a great 1 0. “Weather at our destination is 50 he had a hard time looking the we wish it to go, forward and possible meeting venue and the service is degrees with some broken clouds, but tremendous. passengers in the eye, thinking that new members. We did have a good we’ll try to have them fixed before we someone would have a smart meeting and afterwards we shared a I am looking back to the days when we arrive. Thank you, and remember, comment. Finally everyone had gotten nobody loves you, or your money, more off except for a little old lady walking drink or two with the members with of decided to form our organisation, but than Southwest Airlines.” course a snag on the BBQ afterwards. since that night we haven’t seen any of with a cane. She said, “Sir, do you 11. “Your seat cushions can be used mind if I ask you a question?” “Why, I must admit that our Secretary does the old faces again to come and join for flotation; and, in the event of an no, Ma’am,” said the pilot. “What is a reasonable job on the BBQ and I think us and see what we are all about. I emergency water landing, please it?” The little old lady said, “Did we land, everyone present enjoyed themselves. would like to see more family get - youpaddle to shore and take them with or were we shot down?” 30 3 problems remembering things. During bought a new hearing aid. It cost me togethers, outings dinners etc. but no bond of kindred engineering spirits with a checkup, the doctor tells them that four thousand dollars, but it’s state of one seems to be interested. We should a military background is clearly they’re physically okay, but they might the art. It’s perfect.” “Really,” answered put our heads together and pass on our demonstrated in ‘The Horse’s Mouth’ want to start writing things down to the neighbour . “What kind is it?” thoughts and see what we can do to your newsletter, both informative and help them remember Later that night, “Twelve thirty.” have more fun. They seem to be able humorous. I know Andy Anderson the while watching TV, the old man gets Morris, an 82 year-old man, went to the to have interesting things going on run REME Association Secretary looks up from his chair. “Want anything while doctor to get a physical. by our Interstate affiliates, so why can’t forward to reading every issue before I’m in the kitchen?” he asks. A few days later, the doctor saw Morris we have something going. Let’s all have passing them on. “Will you get me a bowl of ice cream?” walking down the street with a gorgeous a good think about this and bring your Your offer of welcome to those who plan “Sure.” young woman on his arm. A couple of ideas to the next meeting, it should be to travel to Western Australia is recip- “Don’t you think you should write it days later, the doctor spoke to Morris a good discussion session. rocated. If any of your members plan down so you can remember it?” she and said, “You’re really doing great, So if you have a spare hour or so on to return to the ‘old country’ please get asks. aren’t you?” any first Thursday of the month, drop in touch with Andy Anderson and or “No, I can remember it.” Morris replied, “Just doing what you in at the Baysie and join us at the Colonel Bill Cleasby whose cards are “Well, I’d like some strawberries on said, Doc: ‘Get a hot mamma and be meeting. attached. They will ensure any visit to top, too. Maybe you should write it cheerful.’” my Headquarters or the REME Mu- John Klein. down, so’s not to forget it?” The doctor said, “I didn’t say that. I said, seum of Technology will be an enjoy- He says, “I can remember that. You ‘You’ve got a heart murmur; be careful.” able experience. want a bowl of ice cream with RAEME Plaque taken to the UK strawberries.” One more. . .! A little old man shuffled Thank you once again for the gift of your Recently one of our REME members “I’d also like whipped cream. I’m slowly into an ice cream parlour and Association Plaque. I have asked the certain you’ll forget that, write it down?” pulled himself slowly, painfully, up onto took a RAEME Plaque to the UK on Museum Director to place it in the she asks. stool. After catching his breath, he our behalf. Fred Ordynski went to the Museum so that it may be seen by the Irritated, he says, “I don’t need to write ordered a banana split. UK to attend a reunion of the Arborfield AOBA and the wider REME family. it down, I can remember it! Ice cream The waitress asked kindly, “Crushed Old Boys Association. During his visit Your’s Sincerely with strawberries and whipped cream nuts?” he presented the Plaque to the AOBA. “No,” he replied, “Arthritis.” - I got it, for goodness sake!” Then he The following letter was received by the (signed) Brigadier Williams toddles into the kitchen. Association from the Director REME: After about 20 minutes, the old man Airline cabin announcements F1 Grenade Safety returns from the kitchen and hands his All too rarely, airline attendants make Brigadier N T S Williams MBE ADC wife a plate of bacon and eggs. an effort to make the in flight “safety Director Electrical and Mechanical The Chief of Defence Force, Air Chief She stares at the plate for a moment. lecture” and announcements a bit more Engineering (Army) Box No H080, Marshal Angus Houston and the “Where’s my toast ?” entertaining. Here are some real Building 62, Hazebrouck Barracks, Secretary for Defence, Mr Nick Warner, have today expressed their sympathy A senior citizen said to his eighty-year examples that have been heard or Arborfield, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 to the Defence civilian injured in 12 old buddy: “So I hear you’re getting reported: 9NH September accident at the Defence married?” DEME(A)/1100/1/8 1. On a Southwest flight (SW has no Proof and Experimental Establishment “Yep!” assigned seating, you just sit where Mr Richard Fenton at Graytown, Victoria. The civilian was “Do I know her?” you want) passengers were apparently RAEME Association Secretary injured as the result of the detonation “Nope!” having a hard time choosing, when a RAEME Association of WA Inc of an F1 grenade. “This woman, is she good looking?” flight attendant announced, “People, PO Box 186 “Not really.” people we’re not picking out furniture Bayswater The Chief of Defence Force has ordered “Is she a good cook?” here, find a seat and get in it!” WA 6933 Australia an immediate pause in the training use “Naw, she can’t cook too well.” of the F1 grenade. 2. On a Continental Flight with a very “Does she have lots of money?” Dear Mr Fenton, “senior” flight attendant crew, the pilot The cause of the grenade accident is “Nope! Poor as a church mouse.” said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve RAEME ASSOCIATION PLAQUE being investigated. Potential causes “Well, then, is she good in bed?” reached cruising altitude and will be As the President of the Arborfield Old might include, but not be limited to, a “I don’t know.” turning down the cabin lights. This is Boys Association (AOBA) and a Vice malfunction of the grenade or of the “Why in the world do you want to for your comfort and to enhance the President of the REME Association it testing procedures. It would not be marry her then?” appearance of your flight attendants.” gave me a great deal of pleasure to appropriate to speculate further about “Because she can still drive!” the incident until investigations are 3. On landing, the stewardess said, receive the RAEME Plaque to further A man was telling his neighbour, “I just cement our bond of friendship. This complete. 4 29 “Our first priority is to ensure the safety So good was the social aspect of this we can expect the number of souls in hear again.” of all Australian Defence Force and unit that many years after leaving most Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we The gentleman replied, “Oh, I haven’t Defence Department personnel” Air soldiers still remember the many friends look at the rate of change of the volume told my family yet. I just sit around and Chief Marshal Houston said. made in sometimes difficult and in Hell because Boyle’s Law states that listen to the conversations. I’ve changed “The decision to pause the training use adverse conditions unique to this in order for the temperature and my will three times!” of the F1 grenade will allow us to RAEME field unit. pressure in Hell to stay the same, the Two elderly gentlemen from a retirement determine that the right measures are One particular ex member decided to volume of Hell has to expand centre were sitting on a bench under a in place to ensure the safety of our organise a reunion of members at proportionately as souls are added. tree when one turns to the other and people and the reliability of the Ingleburn RSL this event was the This gives two possibilities: says: “Sam, I’m 83 years old now and grenade.” catalyst of what was to become a bi- 1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate I’m just full of aches and pains. I know Defence will work closely with the annual event well supported by people than the rate at which souls enter Hell, you’re about my age. How do you feel?” grenade’s manufacturer, Thales who have fond memories of great and then the temperature and pressure in Sam says, “I feel just like a newborn Australia, to validate and where not so great times spent in 101. Hell will increase until all Hell breaks baby.” necessary improve all aspects relating The Ingleburn reunion started the ball loose. “Really!? Like a newborn baby!?” to the safety and reliability of the rolling with our now president Garry “Yep. No hair, no teeth, and I think I 2. If Hell is expanding at a rate faster just wet my pants.” product Hodges to organise the next reunion in than the increase of souls in Hell, then Defence will rapidly procure sufficient Darwin for ANZAC Day 2007. This the temperature and pressure will drop An elderly couple had dinner at another stocks of HE grenades from the United turned out to be very successful in that until Hell freezes over couple’s house, and after eating, the we had 148 ex-members turn up for a wives left the table and went into the States to support necessary training So which is it? for our forces in Australia. really great time. Garry had a banner kitchen. The two gentlemen were made depicting the archway as well as If we accept the postulate given to me talking, and one said, “Last night we A small number of failures of the F1 where the unit served. We all marched by Teresa during my Freshman year went out to a new restaurant and it was grenades to detonate were reported in in the Darwin ANZAC Day march under that, “It will be a cold day in Hell before really great. I would recommend it very 2006 from the Middle East. These this banner and was the biggest I sleep with you.” We, then, take into highly.” The other man said, “What is incidents were reported from the field contingent on the day. account the fact that I slept with her the name of the restaurant?” and rapid steps were taken to confirm last night, so number two must be true, The first man thought and thought and the reliability of grenades in service. Garry has now started planning the next event for 2009 at the twin towns RSL and thus I am sure that Hell is finally said, “What is the name of that Our forces in the Middle East continue on the gold coast for March of that year. exothermic and has already frozen over. flower you give to someone you love? to have adequate stocks of fully Garry has asked for feed back on this The corollary of this theory is that since You know... The one that’s red and has effective grenades in their inventory. venue and all suggestions will be Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is thorns.” considered. This social club does not not accepting any more souls and is “Do you mean a rose?” Defence, through the Defence Materiel “Yes, that’s the one,” replied the man. Organisation, has been working with have a structured committee as we all therefore, extinct...... leaving only have equal status to be there and put Heaven, thereby proving the existence He then turned towards the kitchen and Thales Australia to address these yelled, “Rose, what’s the name of that matters. our opinions forward. of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting “Oh my restaurant we went to last night?” “The incident on 12 September at the Sport in 101 was a big part of our daily God.” Hospital regulations require a wheel Defence Proof and Experimental thinking and many people participated chair for patients being discharged. Establishment is cause for concern” in a wide variety of activities of a THIS STUDENT RECEIVED AN A+. However, while working as a student Air Chief Marshal Houston said. sporting nature as well as the social What a smart ass.! side of winning or loosing in the OR s nurse, I found one elderly gentleman “These matters will be very carefully club (well supported by all ranks). 101 Elderly gentleman? already dressed and sitting on the bed investigated and reported to the boozer became more of the social hub with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted Minister for Defence. All necessary An elderly gentleman had serious not just a bar in an Army unit. he didn’t need my help to leave the steps will be taken to ensure the safety hearing problems for a number of years. He went to the doctor and the doctor hospital. After a chat about rules being of our personnel.” Garry has a web page that has photos rules, he reluctantly let me wheel him from Darwin as well as the main con- was able to have him fitted for a set of hearing aids that allowed the gentleman to the elevator. On the way down I 101 FD WKSP Social Club tact forum for all to use. The address to hear 100% asked him if his wife was meeting him. for this is “I don’t know,” he said. “She’s still Hello RAEME people, my name is www.101raemewksp.zoomshare.com The elderly gentleman went back in a Darby and I was a member of 101 for month to the doctor and the doctor said, upstairs in the bathroom changing out many years enjoying the camaraderie I wish to take this opportunity to thank “Your hearing is perfect. Your family of her hospital gown.” that only this field unit can offer. the RAEME Association in WA who must be really pleased that you can a Couple in their nineties are both having 28 5 what would happen, but apparently detective Erik Dern. With no one there publish the Horse’s Mouth for allowing manifest; viz failed to notice the window was closed. to help him, he lay under all that dung me to place this article in the periodical 1. They will be subject to a complete RUNNER UP: for at least an hour before a watchman put together by John. review of every accepted disability as TACOMA, WA: Kerry Bingham had came along, and during that time he Darby Munro part of the assessment process. been drinking with several friends when suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents that proves... 2. If currently receiving 100% they run one of them said they knew a person Gold Card Pensions - Additions To a real risk of having their Medical who had bungee-jumped from the “Shit happens.” Accepted Disabilities. Impairment and Lifestyle ratings Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the middle readjusted to the extent that their of traffic. The conversation grew more Hell Explained By BY COURTESY OF NOEL Mclaughlin current entitlement may very well end heated and at least 10 men trooped Chemistry Student up being derated to less than 100% along the walkway of the bridge at 4:30 Gentlemen with its attendant effect on the veteran. AM. The following is an actual question given Our Welfare Rep IAN SINCLAIR now 3. If Intermediate or TPI, they run the Upon arrival at the midpoint of the on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. part of our Qld Inc Committee has risk of having their capacity to bridge they discovered that no one had asked me to pass this on for you undertake remunerative work re- brought a bungee rope. Bingham, who general interest assessed also. had continued drinking, volunteered and The answer by one student was so pointed out that a coil of lineman’s “profound” that the professor shared it Yours Aye Rob Woolrych 4. Should a pension at Intermediate/ cable lay near by. One end of the with colleagues, via the Internet, which Posted on 26/7/2007 at 18:41:50 by TPI levels - in particular TPI - be cablewas secured around Bingham’s is, of course, why we now have the Noel McLaughlin derated, bang goes the automatic War pleasure of enjoying it as well: Widow’s entitlement - not to mention leg and the other end was tied to the Over the past 18 months or so I have bridge. His fall lasted 40 feet before a possible diminution in Service Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic been asked for advice from a number Pension and a potential loss of the cable tightened and tore his foot of quarters including the National off at the ankle. (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs entitlement to funeral benefits and heat)? President of the RSL, on a developing bereavement payments. He miraculously survived his fall into but unusual and very worrying trend - As you can see, such a course of the icy salt water and was rescued by Most of the students wrote proofs of that of veterans lodging claims for a two nearby fishermen. “All I can say” new disability under the Veterans’ action is fraught with risk and the their beliefs using Boyle’s Law gas potential for damage is significant. said Bingham, “is that God was cools when it expands and heats when Entitlements Act 1986. This may not watching out for me on that night. it is compressed) or some variant. of itself sound unusual. This will result in the usual stress on a There’s just no other explanation for However, my concerns which have veteran and his family and force him it.” Bingham’s foot was never located. One student, however, wrote the prompted me to post this message into the appeals system in what is AND THE WINNER... following: stem from the fact that the lodgement becoming an increasingly adversarial Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich of claims for a new disability are being process. There is nothing the Repat Riesfeldt (Paderborn, Germany) fed his First, we need to know how the mass lodged by veterans who are in receipt Commission likes better that to review constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of Hell is changing in time. So we need of a General Rate Disability paid at a veteran’s situation and this is grist of animal laxative and more than a to know the rate at which souls are 100% of the General Rate (Gold Card). for their mill. bushel of berries, figs and prunes moving into Hell and the rate at which It has also featured in some veterans Gold Cards entitle a veteran to coverage before the plugged- up pachyderm they are leaving. I think that we can attempting to have a previously rejected for all medical matters other than finally let it fly, and suffocated the safely assume that once a soul gets to disability accepted again even when accepted disabilities. There is no keeper under 200 pounds of poop! Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls receiving 100%. requirement for a veteran who has a are leaving. As for how many souls are Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, Additionally I have had cause to provide Gold card to lodge a claim for another entering Hell, let’s look at the different was attempting to give the ailing advice in respect of veterans who disability regardless of whether it is a religions that exist in the world today. elephant an olive oil enema when the although in receipt of the Special Rate new condition or one previously relieved beast unloaded on him. “The (TPI) Pension also have commenced rejected. The Gold card redresses that Most of these religions state that if you sheer force of the elephant’s action to lodge a fresh claim for a new imbalance. That balance runs a great are not a member of their religion, you unexpected defecation knocked Mr. disability or one that has been risk of being very badly disturbed and will go to Hell. Since there is more than Riesfeldt to the ground where he struck previously rejected. can create a very dangerous precedent his head on a rock and lay unconscious one of these religions and since people that can have a terrible blow-back effect as the elephant continued to evacuate do not belong to more than one religion, The risks to 100% veterans or Above on all Gold card recipients or potential his bowels on top of him” said we can project that all souls go to Hell. General Rate (Intermediate or TPI) applicants. Pension Veterans doing this are flabbergasted Paderborn police With birth and death rates as they are, The simple advice: DO NOT GO 6 27 THERE. Leone. Jim’s Life in the US If you need to talk this over I urge all This resulted in a change to the Jim is an expert when it comes to things about his own country. members to discuss with their previously designated area of You Can’t Fix Stupid As Ron White often says: “You can’t respective Advocates. If members operations, the level of threat and risk fix stupid.” These people prove it is a know of anyone in our family who is a to ADF personnel. As a result the EIGHTH PLACE: terminal condition. As always, Gold card recipient and is considering reclassification of service is justified. In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck competition this year has been keen. this action, please ensure he is aware Operation Husky veterans may now be and drowned in two feet of water after of the risks. squeezing head first through an 18-inch- THIRD PLACE: eligible for additional home loan The following mind-boggling attempt at Regards, assistance and will be awarded the wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. a crime spree in Washington, DC Noel Mc Laughlin Australian Active Service Medal. They appeared to be the robber’s first (and Advocate will also receive the DVA Gold Card at SEVENTH PLACE: last), due to his lack of a previous age 70, with access to free and A 49-year-old San Francisco ADF Duty In Sierra Leone record of violence, and his terminally comprehensive health care in addition stockbroker, who “totally zoned when stupid choices: Upgraded To Warlike Service to their existing entitlements and he ran,” accidentally jogged off a 100- benefits. foot high cliff on his daily run. 1. His target was H&J Leather & Australian Defence Force personnel Firearms; A gun shop specialising in who served in Sierra Leone from 2001 Veterans will also have access to a SIXTH PLACE: handguns. to 2003 now have their service Service Pension at age 60, five years Buxton, NC: A man died on a beach 2. The shop was full of customers - recognised as ‘warlike’, Minister earlier than the age pension from when an 8-foot-deep hole he had dug firearms customers. Assisting the Minister for Defence Centrelink. If any veterans are unable into the sand caved in as he sat inside 3. To enter the shop, the robber had to Bruce Billson announced recently. to work through injury sustained during it. Beach-goers said Daniel Jones, 21, step around a marked police patrol car A total of 17 ADF personnel served on the deployment they may be entitled dug the hole for fun, or protection from parked at the front door. the operation, code named Operation to immediate access to the Invalidity the wind, and had been sitting in a 4. A uniformed officer was standing at Husky, which was the Australian Service Pension. beach chair at the bottom Thursday the counter, having coffee before work. contribution to the International Military These additional benefits will enable afternoon when it collapsed, burying Upon seeing the officer, the would-be Advisory and Training Team (IMATT) greater long term security for both him beneath 5 feet of sand. robber announced a hold-up, and fired formed to provide direct military advice veterans and their families who have People on the beach, on the outer a few wild shots from a target pistol. and training assistance to the then new played an important and difficult role in banks, used their hands and shovels, The officer and a clerk promptly Sierra Leone Ministry of Defence and the service of their country and for the trying to claw their way to Jones, a returned fire, the police officer with a the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed wider international community. resident of Woodbridge, VA , but could 9mm GLOCK 17, the clerk with a 50 Forces. The reclassification of Operation Husky not reach him. It took rescue workers DESERT EAGLE, assisted by several The operational environment and nature to ‘warlike’ is another outcome of the using heavy equipment almost an hour customers who also drew their guns, of service for Operation Husky have nature of service review put in place by to free him while about 200 people several of whom also drew and fired. been reviewed and the Government the Howard Government in 2002 to looked on. Jones was pronounced dead The robber was pronounced dead at has agreed that a retrospective review past operations to ensure they at a hospital. the scene by Paramedics. Crime declaration of ‘warlike’ service was were correctly attributed. FIFTH PLACE: scene investigators located 47 warranted for the deployment. It stands alongside the reclassification Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed in expended cartridge cases in the shop. Service in Sierra Leone had previously of service in Rwanda from 1994 to 1995 Lompoc, as he fell face-first through the The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 been classified as ‘non-warlike’ and as exemplifying the Government’s ceiling of a bicycle shop he was gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified this change in deployment status will commitment to ensure our ADF burglarising. Death was caused when rounds from 7 different weapons. No provide greater recognition and personnel who risk their lives on the long flashlight he had placed in his one else was hurt in the exchange of enhanced ongoing support for those operations overseas have their service mouth (to keep his hands free) rammed fire. who served. recognised and are properly looked into the base of his skull as he hit the HONORABLE MENTION: floor. The original decision to classify the after. Paul Stiller, 47, was hospitalised in FOURTH PLACE: Andover township, NJ, and his wife operation as non-warlike was taken Loss of Value of TPI Entitlements because ADF personnel were to Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed in Bonnie was also injured, when a operate only in Freetown and its Dear All, Selbyville, Del, as he won a bet with quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in environs. As the operation progressed, Hon Graham Edwards MP is a Vietnam friends who said he would not put a their car. While driving around at 2 AM, ADF personnel were required to operate Veteran and the only war veterans in revolver loaded with four bullets into his the bored couple lit the dynamite and throughout the southern region of Sierra the Federal Parliament. He has been a mouth and pull the trigger. tried to toss it out the window to see 26 7 Just to Start vocal advocate for our causes but, sorts of issues that older veterans are Thoughts to Ponder for 2007 unfortunately, often to uncomprehending facing. An old southern country preacher from Number 9 politicians. An example of that is in a recent letter Life is sexually transmitted. Georgia had a teenage son and it was getting time the boy should give some In a recent speech, he addressed the that was sent to the Minister for Number 8 thought to choosing a profession. Like ‘loss of value of the TPI pension’ and Veterans’ Affairs and to ex-service Good health is merely the slowest many young men, the boy didn’t really offers advice to both sides of politics. organisations by the Vietnam Veterans possible rate at which one can die. know what he wanted to do, and he It is a very important speech. Part of it Federation in New South Wales. I Number 7 didn’t seem too concerned about it. is reproduced below. might say that the Vietnam Veterans Federation under the presidency of Tim Give a person a fish and you feed them One day, while the boy was away at Regards, McCombe, himself a veteran, is for a day; teach a person to use the school, his father decided to try an probably one of the most credible of Internet and they won’t bother you for experiment. He went into the boy’s Tim McCombe all ex-service organisations in Australia. weeks. room and placed on his study table four National President - Vietnam Veterans I commend Tim and all of his team out objects: Federation of Australia Number 6 there at Granville for the wonderful work Speech Some people are like a Slinky ... not - a Bible, they are doing across the board for really good for anything, but you still - a silver dollar, Mr EDWARDS (11.39 a.m.) I want to veterans. In this letter, which they sent can’t help but smile when you shove - a bottle of whisky and address a couple of issues in this to the minister, under a heading, ‘Loss them down the stairs. - a Playboy magazine debate on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) of value of the TPI pension’ they say Number 5 I’ll just hide behind the door, “ the old 2006-2007 and Appropriation Bill (No. this: Health nuts are going to feel stupid preacher said to himself, “and when he 4) 2006-2007 relating to my ‘The Minister for Veterans’ Affairs is responsibilities as shadow some day, lying in hospitals dying of comes home from school this grasping at straws in his attempt to nothing. afternoon, I’ll see which object he picks parliamentary secretary for defence and justify the government’s refusal to veterans’ affairs. The first of these Number 4 up. If it’s the Bible, he’s going to be a restore the lost value of the TPI pension preacher like me, and what a blessing issues I want to address goes to the and to stem its further erosion. His All of us could take a lesson from the issue of the loss of value of the TPI weather. It pays no attention to that would be! If he picks up the dollar, attempted justifications are untenable he’s going to be a businessman, and pension. Before I get into that issue, I and contradictory. Our latest letter to criticism. just want to say how ineffective this that would be OK. But if picks up the the minister is enclosed.” Number 3 bottle, he’s going to be a no-good government has been in the face of the I want to quote this letter because it Why does a slight tax increase cost drunkard, and, Lord, what a shame that record reluctance of young Australians shows that what is being said about you $200.00 and a substantial tax cut would be. And worst of all, if he picks to sign up and join the ADF. the TPI is not just being said by me saves you 30? up that magazine he’s gonna be a skirt- It is no wonder that the government has and other members of parliament on Number 2 chasin’ bum.” a retention and recruitment crisis on the ALP side who take an interest in In the 60s, people took acid to make its hands. I have looked at some of the The old man waited anxiously, and soon these things but also in the broader the world weird. Now the world is weird wasteful advertising on TV and in other heard his son’s footsteps as he entered veteran community. The letter is and people take Prozac to make it places. The government are spending the house, whistling and headed for his addressed to the Minister for Veterans’ normal. millions upon millions of dollars on this room. The boy tossed his books on the Affairs and it says: advertising, which is designed, I think, bed, and as he turned to leave the room Loss of the value of the TPI pension AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR he spotted the objects on the table. more to bolster the image of the 2007: With curiosity in his eye, he walked government than to recruit. But it seems Since 1979, the TPI pension has lost We know exactly where one cow with over to inspect them. to me that, if they were dinkum about value compared with other pensions Mad-cow-disease is located among their need and the way they are going and the erosion continues. the millions and millions of cows in Finally, he picked up the Bible and about their recruitment drive, they might America but we haven’t got a clue as placed it under his arm. He picked up be better off saving that money that they In recent correspondence to the to where thousands of illegal the silver dollar and dropped it into his are wasting on advertising and putting Vietnam Veterans Federation and immigrants and terrorists are located. pocket. He uncorked the bottle and took it into looking after the veteran others, you have defended the Maybe we should put the Department a big drink while he admired this community that is, veterans who served government’s refusal to restore the TPI of Agriculture in charge of immigration. month’s Centrefold. in previous eras or in previous conflicts pension’s lost value and its refusal to completely stem its continuing “Lord have mercy,” the old preacher although, having said that, I am aware erosion. “Life is like a jar of jalapenos. What disgustedly whispered, “he’s gonna be that a number of veterans who have you do today, might burn your ass a Soldier!” served in Afghanistan, Iraq and places The justification you give for the tomorrow like East Timor are facing the same government’s inaction is that the TPI 8 25 pension/Service pension package is In short, your argument for adequacy 36 To “testify” was based on men in gets out alive. adequate because it is roughly based on this comparison is fallacious the Roman court swearing to a 6. You’re just jealous because the equivalent to the average wage. and we are disappointed that you statement made by swearing on their voices only talk to me But the TPI pension/Service pension continue using it. testicles. 7. Beauty is in the eye of the beer package and the average wage are We are disappointed, too, at the figures 37 The combination “ough” can be holder. simply not comparable. It is like you use in the comparison. pronounced in nine different ways. The 8. Earth is the insane asylum for the comparing apples with oranges. following sentence contains them all “A universe. The average wage is clearly ‘income’. 9. I’m not a complete idiot — Some Firstly, the spouses of civilians on the Any payments compared with it must rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets parts are just missing. average-wage can earn as much as also be ‘income’. The government has 10. Out of my mind. Back in five they like without it reducing their decreed that only part of the TPI of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.” minutes. partners’ incomes, whilst any significant pension is ‘income’, the other part being 11. NyQuil, the stuffy, sneezy, why-the- wage earned by partners of TPI ‘lump sum equivalent’. Yet in making 38 The only 15 letter word that can be heck-is-the-room-spinning medicine. pensioners reduces the TPI pension/ your comparison, you have included the spelled without repeating a letter is 12. God must love stupid people; He Service pension package. This whole of the TPI pension including the uncopyrightable. made so many. reduction is savage enough to part you have decreed as ‘lump sum 39 Facetious and abstemious contain discourage a great many spouses from equivalent’. Your calculations are 13. The gene pool could use a little all the vowels in the correct order, as chlorine. taking up work. The importance of this therefore invalid. does arsenious, meaning “containing difference cannot be overstated as the 14. Consciousness: That annoying time Including the whole of the TPI pension arsenic.” between naps. vast majority of Australian families find you calculate that a single under-65 TPI it necessary for both partners to work 40 Emus and kangaroos cannot walk 15. Ever stop to think, and forget to start service pension/Service pension backwards, and are on the Australian again? for at least some of the time to make recipient receives a net $10 a fortnight ends meet. When spouse’s incomes coat of arms for that reason. 16. Being “over the hill” is much better more than a single average-wage earner. than being under it! are added to that of their average-wage But if you play by your own rules and 41 Cats have over one hundred vocal earner partners, the TPI pension/ sounds, while dogs only have about ten. 17. Wrinkled Was Not One of the recognise that only part of the TPI Things I Wanted to Be When I Grew Service pension package recipient is pension is ‘income’, the under-65 TPI left far worse off. 42 The word “Checkmate” in chess up. pension/Service pension package comes from the Persian phrase “Shah 18 Procrastinate Now! Secondly many civilians on the average recipient is, in fact, over four hundreds Mat,” which means “the king is dead”. 19. I Have a Degree in Liberal Arts; Do wage are in transit through that wage of dollars a fortnight worse off. 43 The reason firehouses have circular You Want Fries With That? level and will be earning much more in The simple facts are these: stairways is from the days of lore when 20. A hangover is the wrath of grapes. later life. No such luck for the TPI the engines were pulled by horses. The 21. A journey of a thousand miles begins Pensioner. He is stuck on the TPI The TPI pension was 47.3% of the horses were stabled on the ground floor with a cash advance. Pension/Service Pension package for average wage in 1997 and it is now and figured out how to walk up straight 22. Stupidity is not a handicap. Park life and often from an early age. Unlike 43.5%. staircases. elsewhere! his civilian counterparts, he will have The TPI pension is still losing value. 23.They call it PMS because Mad Cow no chance to upgrade his skills and 44 The male gypsy moth can “smell” We ask that the lost value of the TPI gain experience which will allow him to the virgin female gypsy moth from Disease was already taken. pension be restored and its erosion earn progressively more, so he can buy 1.8 miles away. 24. He who dies with the most toys is stemmed. a house and accumulate nonetheless DEAD. superannuation for his old age. This is an issue that the government Twenty Nine Lines 25. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it uses up three thousand times the must address. This is an issue that the To Make You Smile Thirdly, there is another even more memory. basic difference. Generally speaking, government have run away from for some years now. We know that they 1. My husband and I divorced over 26. Ham and eggs...A day’s work for a the civilian average-wage earner has not religious differences. He thought he was chicken, a lifetime commitment for a been sent off to fight Australia’s wars. changed the system in 1996. That is over 10 years ago, and it is time they God and I didn’t. pig. War service is like no other job, it is 2. I don’t suffer from insanity; I enjoy 27. The trouble with life is there’s no uniquely dangerous and arduous. TPI recognised that they made a mistake and fixed it up. every minute of it. background music. pensioners’ war service did not conform 3. Some people are alive only because 28. The original point and click interface I know that this is also an issue for the to civilian norms so there should be no it’s illegal to kill them. was a Smith & Wesson. ALP to address. In due course we must need for any compensation they might 4. I used to have a handle on life, but it 29. I smile because I don’t know what address this issue in terms of our own receive for the war’s devastating effects broke. the hell is going on. to be restricted by civilian norms. policies, and I am greatly heartened by 5. Don’t take life too seriously; No one 24 9 English language that begins and ends 23 The Ramses brand condom is the work that Alan Griffin is doing out nently Incapacitated disability pen- with the letters “und.” named after the great phaoroh Ramses there. Alan is the ALP spokesperson sions. 9 There are only four words in the II who fathered over 160 children. on veterans’ issues. He has been out Other travel concessions include a English language which end in”-dous” 24 There is a seven letter word in the in the veteran community, listening to second trip in WA for WA special tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, English language that contains ten them, taking on board their arguments veterans and their accompanying and hazardous. words without rearranging any of its and showing them a great deal of approved carers on Transwa rail and letters, “therein” the, there, he, in, rein, respect. I know that this is an issue coach services and a second free 10 The longest word in the English that Alan wants to see resolved as well. language, according to the Oxford her, here, ere, therein, herein. intra-state, trip for WA special veterans English Dictionary, is pneum- 25 Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long The important point is that the living above the 26th parallel and their onoultramicroscopicsilicovolca- as both parties are registered blood government is currently putting together accompanying approved carers by air noconiosis. The only other word with donors. its budget that will be produced in May. or coach the same amount of letters is pneum- I urge the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs, 26 John Larroquette of “Night Court” who is the government spokesperson Veterans And War Widows onoultramicroscopicsilicovolca- and “The John Larroquette Show” was noconioses, its plural. for veterans’ affairs in this parliament, Secure Pension Increase the narrator of “The Texas Chainsaw to ensure that he gets his fingers into 11 The longest place-name still in use Massacre.” the Treasurer’s purse and rectifies this Veterans will receive an increase in their is Taumatawhakatangihotamateatur disgraceful erosion of the TPI pension. pensions of up to $18.60 per fortnight, 27 The characters Bert and Ernie on it was announced recently. ipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiw- Sesame Street were named after Bert As long as this government continues enuakitanatahu, a New Zealand hill. the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank to treat veterans in the shoddy way that Veterans’ pensions, including service 12 Los Angeles’s full name is “El Capra’s “Its A Wonderful Life” it has then it will be equally hard to pension, war widow’s pension and recruit young Australians to serve in the disability pensions, will increase from Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de 28 A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. ADF. Word of mouth through the veteran 20 September 2007. los Angeles de Porciuncula” and can A goldfish has a memory span of three community to younger people is simply be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size, seconds. This pension rise is consistent with the “L.A.” saying, ‘Think twice about signing up Australian Government’s commitment 29 It’s impossible to sneeze with your because when the flags have stopped 13 A cat has 32 muscles in each ear. to protecting the living standards of eyes open. flying, when you are out of uniform, veterans and their families, and 14 An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its 30 It was discovered on a space governments forget about you very supporting their welfare. brain. mission that a frog can throw up. The quickly.’ That, unfortunately, is a sad truth. If the government is dinkum about From 20 September 2007, the Special 15 Tigers have striped skin, not just frog throws up its stomach first, so the (T&PI) rate of disability pension will striped fur. stomach is dangling out of it’s mouth. its care and concern for veterans, it will make sure that in this budget it rectifies increase by $18.60 to $938.00 per 16 In most advertisments, including Then the frog uses its forearms to dig fortnight, while the Intermediate rate of out all of the stomach’s contents and that erosion of the TPI pension. I once newspapers, the time displayed on a again compliment Tim McCombe and disability pension will increase by watch is 10:10. then swallows the stomach back down $11.40 to $631.20. again. the Vietnam Veterans Federation for the 17 Alfred Hitchcock didn’t have a belly tremendous work they are doing. Extreme Disablement Adjustment will button.It was eliminated when he was 31 Cranberries are sorted for ripeness increase to $495.40 per fortnight and sewn up after surgery. by bouncing them; a fully ripened Veterans To Get the 100 per cent General Rate of cranberry can be dribbled like a 18 Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong Travel Concessions disability pension will increase to basketball. $322.80. died on their birthdays. SPECIAL veterans and their carers will 32 The letters KGB stand for Komitet The maximum rate of single service 19 Donald Duck’s middle name is Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. get one free trip a year on the Indian Fauntleroy. Pacific train between Perth and pension will rise by $12.60 to $537.70 33 The name for Oz in the “Wizard of Kalgoorlie. per fortnight and the maximum rate for 20 Al Capone’s business card said Oz” was thought up when the creator, couples will increase by $10.60 to It is one of several new travel conces- he was a used furniture dealer. Frank Baum, looked at his filing cabinet $449.10 each. and saw A-N, and O-Z, hence “Oz.” sions to special veterans and approved 21 The muzzle of a lion is like a carers announced by Premier Alan The fortnightly pension paid to war fingerprint - no two lions have the same 34 The microwave was invented after a Carpenter. widows will increase by $12.60 to pattern of whiskers. researcher walked by a radar tube and $562.70, while the ceiling rate of the Special veterans are defined as peo- a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. income support supplement, which is 22 Steely Dan got their name from a ple who claim the Commonwealth’s paid to more than 84,000 war widows, sexual device depicted in the book 35 ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word Extremely Disabled Adjustment, Inter- will rise to $160.40. ‘The Naked Lunch’. that is typed with only the left hand. mediate Rate or Totally and Perma- 10 23 Rates have also increased for benefits and contents insurance. an eye on the customers and keep the prevent the bottom layer from sliding under the Military Rehabilitation and The inclusion of medals as a SPECIAL drinks coming. She had to pay close or rolling from under the others. The Compensation Act (MRCA). The MRCA ITEM is most often overlooked. I can attention and remember who was solution was a metal plate called a widowed partner’s death benefit is paid speak from personal experience when drinking in “pints” and who was drinking “Monkey” with 16 round indentations. at the same rate as the war widow’s my father lost his original rack of seven in “quarts,” hence the term “minding However, if this plate were made of pension, while MRCA Special Rate and the heartbreak he went through. your “P’s and Q’s.” iron, the iron balls would quickly rust Disability pensioners receive the same to it. The solution to the rusting Below is a brief list of the more common One more: bet you didn’t know this! In payments as Special (T&PI) rate the heyday of sailing ships, all war ships problem was to make “Brass pensioners. medals awarded to Australian Service Monkeys.” Few landlubbers realise that Men and Women and there current and many freighters carried iron More information on the new pension cannons. Those cannons fired round brass contracts much more and much value. Food for thought and you can faster than iron when chilled. rates is available from the Department quickly do the sums iron cannon balls. It was necessary to of Veterans’ Affairs on 133 254 or at keep a good supply near the cannon. Consequently, when the temperature www.dva.gov.au Top end value relates to a medal in its However, how to prevent them from dropped too far, the brass indentations original box untouched and unmounted rolling about the deck? The best would shrink so much that the iron cannonballs would come right off the Take Cover Bottom end value relates to medal in storage method devised was a square- Have you got the necessary based pyramid with one ball on top, monkey. Thus, it was quite literally, very poor condition with no ribbon or “Cold enough to freeze the balls off a protection for your assets mounting. resting on four resting on nine, which rested on sixteen. Thus, a supply of 30 brass monkey.” (All this time, you Being a member and sponsor of the I would say that 90% of the medals that cannon balls could be stacked in a thought that was an improper Military Police Association of Australia pass through my hands ARE at the top small area right next to the cannon. expression, didn’t you.) I feel that I have a responsibility to make end of this scale. Some “groups” of There was only one problem...how to members aware of the significant value medals depending on there uniqueness of their honours and awards. can be valued higher again. Life According to Perry Not only do they have high sentimental This is just a brief sample If you have value to the recipient and their families something that’s not on the list drop etc, they have in most instances great Here is the latest offering from our own home spun Philosopher Perry. me an email and I will find the value for monitory value to boot. you. The half wit. “That’s the guy I want to talk to, the Therefore some serious consideration half-wit,” says the inspector. < [email protected] > Who would be a farmer? should be given to the fact that they “That would be me,” replied the farmer. are a substantial asset within the Shane Murphy Precision Medal A man owned a small farm in Western household when considering house Mounting NSW. The Office of Fair Trading claimed he was not paying proper wages to his So You Think U Know help and sent an Inspector out to A Lot Of Stuff? Name of medal Bottom End Top End interview him. Humor-Adding To Knowledge Value Value “I need a list of your employees and 1 The longest one-syllable word in the Australian Active Service Medal English language is “screeched.” 45 - 75 $243.00 $365.00 how much you pay them,” demanded Vietnam Campaign $365.00 $730.00 the inspector. 2 “Dreamt” is the only English word Vietnam Logistics $490.00 $800.00 “Well,” replied the farmer, “There’s my that ends in the letters “mt”. Australian Defence Medal $234.00 farm hand who’s been with me for 3 3 Almonds are members of the peach Defence Force Service Medal + years. I pay him $600 a week plus free family. $25 per clasp $243.00 $490.00 room and board. Defence Long Service Medal + 4 The symbol on the “pound” key (#) The cook has been here for 18 months, is called an octothorpe. $25 per clasp $490.00 $730.00 and I pay her $500 per week plus free Australian Active Service Medal 75 – room and board. 5 The dot over the letter ‘i’ is called a (depending on clasp) $490.00 $3700.00 tittle. Then there’s the half-wit who works Australian Service Medal 75 - 6 Ingrown toenails are hereditary. (depending on clasp) $490.00 $3700.00 about 18 hours every day and does INTERFET $1220.00 $1950.00 about 90% of all the work around here. 7 The word “set” has more definitions Afghanistan Campaign $1220.00 $1700.00 He makes about $10 per week, and I than any other word in the English Iraq Campaign $1220.00 $1700.00 buy him a bottle of rum every Saturday language. National Medal +$25 per clasp $365.00 $490.00 night.” 8 “Underground” is the only word in the 22 11 Nelson: “In that case...... Kiss Today in business, we use the Defence Recruiting Launches * The average Australian gamer is 27 me, Hardy.” expression or title “Chairman” or New Games Site years old “Chairman of the Board.” With the growing success of online * New players: 41 per cent are females; Did you know? Personal hygiene left much room for games in attracting potential 8 per cent are seniors You probably some of these but I bet improvement. As a result, many women candidates, Defence Force Recruiting * 61 per cent of gamers play for over there a few you didn’t know: and men had developed acne scars by (DFR) will next week launch a an hour at one time adulthood. The women would spread In George Washington’s days, there dedicated games site, ‘Defence Jobs * Mobile/smart phones are used for bee’s wax over their facial skin to Games’. were no cameras. One’s image was smooth out their complexions. When games by 51 per cent of users either sculpted or painted. Some they were speaking to each other, if a According to DFR’s Director-General, Australian Casual Gamers paintings of George Washington woman began to stare at another Brigadier Simon Gould the site – to ‘go showed him standing behind a desk live’ on Monday, 16 July – will harness · Games are considered ‘more social’ woman’s face she was told, “mind your than other forms of media consumption with one arm behind his back while own bee’s wax.” Should the woman the advantages of the current suite of others showed both legs and both smile, the wax would crack, hence the casual games and enable an active · Couples, family members, flatmates arms. Prices charged by painters were term “crack a smile.” In addition, when community to build around them. play games together on a regular basis not based on how many people were they sat too close to the fire, the wax “Our games have proven remarkably · 85 per cent of gamers have a to be painted, but by how many limbs would melt therefore, the expression successful in attracting people to look were to be painted. Arms and legs are broadband connection – quick to “losing face.” at a career in the Defence Force,” download “limbs,” therefore painting them would Brigadier Gould said. cost the buyer more. Hence the Ladies wore corsets, which would lace · Casual Gamer = spending 15mins – expression, “Okay, but it’ll cost you up in the front. A proper and dignified “So we’ve built the Defence Jobs 1 hour playing an easy-to-learn game. an arm and a leg.” woman, as in “straight laced”. .wore a Games site to act as a portal for the tightly tied lace. expanding suite of games we’ve Extreme Battleships – 2 player game As incredible as it sounds, men and produced.” · Launched 22 September 2006 women took baths only twice a year Common entertainment included (May and October)! Women kept their playing cards. However, there was a tax The new site will pull together a wide · To date: 1,030,379 visits (9463 day hair covered, while men shaved their levied when purchasing playing cards range of games – including Extreme visit peak to date) heads (because of lice and bugs) and but only applicable to the “Ace of Battleships, Supreme Air Combat and · 60 per cent new; 37 per cent return wore wigs. Wealthy men could afford Spades.” To avoid paying the tax, people a new Army game – and will offer · 170,556 times Intel brief viewed good wigs made from wool. They would purchase 51 cards instead. Yet, potential candidates as much of an couldn’t wash the wigs, so to clean since most games require 52 cards, experience as they want, without Supreme Air Combat – 2 player them they would carve out a loaf of these people were thought to be stupid demanding a great investment of time. game or dumb because they weren’t “playing bread, put the wig in the shell, and “Putting all the games on the one site · Launched 23 March 2007 bake it for 30 minutes. The heat would with a full deck.” will also offer the user the ability to play · To date: 317,261 visits (5721 day visit make the wig big and fluffy, hence the Early politicians required feedback from from a range of online games with term “big wig.” Today we often use the the public to determine what the people others while earning points, awards and peak to date) term “here comes the Big Wig” considered important. Since there were advancing through the ranks of the · 56.19 per cent new; 43 per cent return because someone appears to be or is no telephones, TV’s or radios, the Navy, Army and Air Force.” Brigadier powerful and wealthy. politicians sent their assistants to local Gould said. RAEME Veterans Association In the late 1700s, many houses taverns, pubs, and bars. They were told Users can also build avatars of consisted of a large room with only one to “go sip some ale” and listen to themselves, to add a personalised touch Hi John, chair. Commonly, a long wide board people’s conversations and political to the experience. The following is the report covering the folded down from the wall, and was concerns. Many assistants were RAEME Veterans Association, WA dispatched at different times. “You go Link: www.defencejobs.gov.au/ used for dining. The “head of the games Branch’s participation in the “Long Tan” household” always sat in the chair sip here” and “You go sip there.” The Day held on the 19th Aug 2007. two words” go sip” were eventually while everyone else ate sitting on the Background Information combined when referring to the local Although small in numbers we were floor. Occasionally a guest, who was opinion and, thus we have the term Australian Gamers still able to parade:- usually a man, would be invited to sit “gossip. in this chair during a meal. To sit in * 79 per cent of households have a 1. The RAEME BANNER:- This has the chair meant you were important At local taverns, pubs, and bars, people device for playing games now been re-named to “ RAEME and in charge. They called the one drank from pint and quart-sized * 2/3 of households have more than one VETERANS” and so allowing for sitting in the chair the “chair man.” containers. A bar maid’s job was to keep device representation of all RAEME 12 21 personnel who have qualifying active are concerned about vitamin D defi- Nelson: “In that case, break open the sir. Health and safety won’t let the crew service. ciency. rum ration. Let us splice the mainbrace up the rigging without hard hats. And 2.The AUSTRALIAN Flag:-This was The new advice takes into account the to steel the men before battle.” they don’t want anyone breathing in too presented to the WA Branch of the intensity of the sun in different parts of Hardy: “The rum ration has been much salt - haven’t you seen the adverts?” Vietnam Veteran’s Association at the Australia. abolished, Admiral. Its part of the “Welcome Home Parade” in Sydney. The new guidelines recommend: Government’s policy on binge drinking.” Nelson: “I’ve never heard such infamy. Break out the cannon and tell the men 3. The RAEME Flag :- The • Fair skinned people can Nelson: “Good heavens, Hardy. I Association inherited his from the maintain adequate vitamin D suppose we’d better get on with it to stand by to engage the enemy.” WW2 Association after the passing levels in summer from a few ...... Full speed ahead.” Hardy: “The men are a bit worried about shooting at anyone, Admiral.” of the final member. minutes of exposure to Hardy: “I think you’ll find that there’s a It is the policy of the Association that sunlight on their face, arms and 4 knot speed limit in this stretch of Nelson: “What? This is mutiny!” the above three will be paraded on hands (or an equivalent area of water.” skin) on either side of the peak Hardy: “It’s not that, sir. It’s just that Anzac Day, Vietnam Day and any Nelson: “Damn it man! We are on the they’re afraid of being charged with other official RAEME celebration. UV periods on most days of the week eve of the greatest sea battle in history. murder if they actually kill anyone. After the parade we moved on to our • In winter in the southern parts We must advance with all dispatch. There’s a couple of legal-aid lawyers newly appointed gathering point “The of Australia, where UV Report from the crow’s nest please.” on board, watching everyone like hawks.” Melbourne Hotel’’ and enjoyed a great radiation levels are less Hardy: “That won’t be possible, sir.” feed and, in general, catching up with intense, people need about 2- Nelson: “Then how are we to sink the one another again. 3 hours of sunlight to the face, Nelson: “What?” Frenchies and the Spanish?” arms and hands or an On good point that was discussed in Hardy: “Health and Safety have closed Hardy: “Actually, sir, we’re not.” great detail was the attendance of the equivalent area of skin over a the crow’s nest, sir. No harness; and young veterans at the last Anzac day week they said that rope ladders don’t meet Nelson: “We’re not?” luncheon, how we all enjoyed their UV levels are higher in northern regulations. They won’t let anyone up Hardy: “No, sir. The French and the company and the input that they Australia, so in Queensland, the there until a proper scaffolding can be Spanish are our European partners generated into the conversation was Northern Territory and some parts of erected.” now. According to the Common Western Australia, sun protection is like a breath of fresh air, we only hope Nelson: “Then get me the ship’s Fisheries Policy, we shouldn’t even be needed all year round. that their numbers will keep on carpenter without delay, Hardy.” in this stretch of water. We could get increasing at all our functions.Further The guidelines state that “There is good hit with a claim for compensation.” Hardy: “He’s busy knocking up a information on the Veterans evidence that vitamin D is beneficial for wheelchair access to the foredeck Nelson: “But you must hate a Association can be obtained from :- maintaining musculo-skeletal health Admiral.” Frenchman as you hate the devil.” Garry Whykes [9276 1920]Phil and reducing the risk of bone fractures. Nelson: “Wheelchair access? I’ve never Hardy: “I wouldn’t let the ship’s diversity Pitchers [9378 1586] orRod Costolloe The human body needs vitamin D to regulate calcium levels in the blood and heard anything so absurd.” co-ordinator hear you saying that sir. [9454 6332] You’ll be up on disciplinary report.” to make and maintain healthy, strong Hardy: “Health and safety again, sir. Regards bones and for this reason it is important Nelson: “You must consider every man Don Horsley We have to provide a barrier-free to maintain adequate vitamin D levels environment for the differently abled.” an enemy, who speaks ill of your King.” all year round. New Guidelines Released on Nelson: “Differently abled? I’ve only one Hardy: “Not any more, sir. We must Sun Exposure Vitamin D deficiency in infants and arm and one eye and I refuse even to be inclusive in this multicultural age. children can cause rickets, hear mention of the word. I didn’t rise Now put on your Kevlar vest; it’s the The Cancer Council Australia has is- characterised by muscle and bone to the rank of admiral by playing the rules. It could save your life” sued new guidelines to tell Australians weakness and bone deformities. Adults disability card.” Nelson: “Don’t tell me - health and how much sun they need to avoid vi- with low vitamin D are at risk of bone tamin D deficiency and stay healthy Hardy: “Actually, sir, you did. The Royal safety. Whatever happened to rum, and joint pain, muscle and bone sodomy and the lash?” without increasing their risk of skin weakness, osteoporotic fractures and Navy is under represented in the areas cancer. falls.” of visual impairment and limb Hardy: As I explained, sir, rum is off deficiency.” The new guidelines have been issued the menu! And there’s a ban on corporal Although the majority of Australians punishment.” following research showing some Aus- have sufficient levels of vitamin D, some Nelson: “Whatever next? Give me full tralians are deliberately seeking sun people could be facing long-term health sail. The salt spray beckons.” Nelson: “What about sodomy?” exposure over summer because they consequences due to vitamin D Hardy: “A couple of problems there too, Hardy: “I believe that is now legal, sir.” 20 13 When Barry Heard began writing his ultimately triumphant victor over the deficiency and may need vitamin D Taxation On DFRB & memoir, Well Done, Those Men, as demons within.’ – Herald Sun. supplementation. DFRDB Unlawful.. part of his therapy to deal with post- THE AUTHOR Those likely to be at risk of vitamin D traumatic stress disorder, he had no Regards deficiency include: Don Horsley idea of the effect it would have on him Barry Heard was conscripted in the first • national service ballot, and served in Vi- people with very dark skin and on the wider veteran community. • people who are housebound or Mr Alan Griffin MP Since the book’s publication two years etnam as an infantryman and radio op- Member for Bruce erator. in institutionalised care – particularly ago, more than 10,000 people have the elderly Shadow Minister for Veterans’ Affairs contacted Barry to thank him for the After completing his national service he • people who wear concealing Shadow Special Minister of State effect the book has had on their life – returned to Australia, where he found clothing for religious or cultural Copy: Mr Rod Hilton from Vietnam veterans and their himself unable to settle down. He had purposes Dear Alan, families, to school children, to 10 different jobs in his first 10 years • breastfed babies of vitamin D psychiatrists, priests, police and back, worked as a teacher for a further deficient women. Re: The unlawful taxation of DFRB politicians. 10 years, and then held several mid- and DFRDB entitlements. managerial posts before succumbing to Where there is vitamin D deficiency, To quote Barry from his afterword in oral vitamin D supplementation – rather You may recall that I was one of the this new edition: a devastating breakdown due to severe guest speakers at the Veterans’ Forum post-traumatic stress disorder. than relying on sun exposure – may be ‘What have I found by entering necessary. A medical practitioner at Highfields in Queensland during July this environment of being an Since recovering, Barry Heard has should be consulted about whether 2007 and that I conversed at length with author? It has been decided to concentrate on his writing. there is need for vitamin D you during our discussions at the legal fascinating. Beforehand, I His short stories have received several supplementation. panel held in the suburb of presumed that most people prizes, including the Sir Edmund Herring Greenslopes in Brisbane on the day understood the life of a Memorial award and the Sir Weary The Cancer Council has issued a Media following the Forum? Vietnam veteran. Yet I’ve come Dunlop prize. Release about the guidelines The Risks to realise that this book has and Benefits of Sun Exposure, which I bring to your attention the fact that (I This is his first book. He lives with his provided a historic account of include additional information about Sun contend that) it is legislatively unlawful family in rural Victoria. a soiled era that few people truly Protection and the UV Index. for the Department of Defence (or any HealthInsite has topic pages on other Federal Government Department) understood.’ How things change! Vitamin D , Risk Factors and to either deduct ‘taxation instalments’ Barry Heard’s sensitive, poignant Nelson: “Order the signal, Hardy.” Prevention of Skin Cancer and from DFRB or DFRDB entitlements or account of his long journey home from Hardy: “Aye, aye sir.” Osteoporosis. to forward those deductions of Vietnam is an inspiring story of a life ‘taxation instalments’ to the reclaimed. Told with gentle Nelson: “Hold on, that’s not what I Commissioner of Taxation. understatement and wry humour, the dictated to Flags. What’s the meaning book gives voice to a lost generation of this?” Under the common headings of: of Australian men. Hardy: “Sorry sir?” Bayswater Hotel As the Howard government considers sending more Australians to Iraq, Nelson (reading aloud): “‘England The Baysie allows the Association the use of their Function Room every perhaps it is time to revisit the men expects every person to do his or her month for our meetings. This they have done at no charge as the Association who are still carrying the scars of the duty, regardless of race, gender, sexual is a non-profit veteran’s organisation. All members are welcome to come along. last unpopular war – Vietnam. orientation, religious persuasion or Remember that our meetings are on the first Thursday of each month except disability.’ - What gobbledegook is this?” THE CRITICS January. Hardy: “Admiralty policy, I’m afraid, sir. ’This is a powerful, beautifully written Dinner, at the Baysie, is from 1800 hours to 2030 hours and is relatively We’re an equal opportunities employer cheap, wholesome food. It is served as a Buffet Style meal and you can have book that should be read by everyone now. We had the devil’s own job getting who wants to understand the evil, hot dinners or a cold salad style meal. Should you wish to go more up-market ‘England’ past the censors, lest it be you can order from the Al-a-Carte menu. If you wish to have a private function senseless personal damage done by considered racist.” war.’ – Sydney Morning Herald. with a buffet style meal the Baysie staff is only too pleased to cater for you. ‘This book is a human, moving and Nelson: “Gadzooks, Hardy. Hand me my If you drive to the Baysie there is a Carpark at the rear with room for about 100 brutally honest account of one man’s pipe and tobacco.” cars. Alternatively you can get to the Baysie by train. The Hotel is about emotionally racked journey from naive Hardy: “Sorry sir. All naval vessels have 100m the north side of the railway line from the Bayswater Railway Station. country boy to jungle soldier, now been designated smoke-free working Further information can be supplied by the Secretary. psychologically scarred veteran and environments.” 14 19 Assignment of pensions Yours faithfully, August 2007 which will see some pay It is not a cooking demonstration, Section 85 of the Defence Forces Graham MacLeod TPI (OHSA increases and the latest recruitment rather an interactive session in which Retirement Benefits Act 1948, and Inspector, retired) results which were one of the best in participants prepare a 2 course meal, Section 129 of the Defence Forces 30 years. and then the group enjoys it together, Advocate creating an inviting social environment. Retirement and Death Benefits Act Legal Liaison Officer Similarly, the ADF Gap Year program 1973 (with minor variations in wording) is good for young people, good for the Each session runs for two to three Veterans and Pensioners Advocacy hours with 8-10 participants. both state that...... Post Office Box 748, ADF and is great for Australia. “no pension benefit or other ARMADALE For those interested, call or text So, if you would like to be more benefit under this Act is capable of WESTERN AUSTRALIA 6992 “Gap” to 13 19 01 or visit confident in the kitchen, try new being assigned or charged or of www.defencejobs.gov.au recipes, learn new skills and meet new passing by operation of Australian Car Manufacturers people, the Cooking for One or Two law...... ” . Support Defence Reserves Cooking for One or Two program may be just what you need! For further information please contact Media Release Please note the words in that Australia’s four major car Stephanie McFaull from the Western paragraph which have been printed in manufacturers have signed Defence 30/08/2007 Australian division of Nutrition Australia bold. Reserves friendly leave policies, it was An interactive six-week cooking at Edith Cowan University on (08) 6304 It is my contention that the legislative announced recently. program designed for men and women 3417 or email [email protected] and legal effect of those words renders Policies have been developed by over 50 who have never cooked before, it unlawful to deduct ‘taxation Mitsubishi Motors, Ford, Holden, and or who find it challenging to make the From Don instalments’ (a ‘charge’) from DFRB or Toyota. switch from preparing large family meals Another thing I would like to bring to DFRDB entitlements or to ‘forward’ (an Historically a high number of to meals for one or two, will commence your notice is what I believe to be ‘assignment’ and a ‘passing by Reservists have and continue to come in early October at the Hollywood/ A great read, it is called “ Well Done operation of [taxation] law’) those from the automotive sector. Subiaco Bowling Club. Another program Those Men”. The book is written by ‘taxation instalments’ to the will be conducted at the North Beach Barry Heard and is his memoires. It Commissioner of Taxation. These companies have demonstrated Bowling Club. deals with 7 RAR but could refer to their commitment to the Defence of Taxation of any kind is a ‘charge’. Funded by the Department of Veterans’ any young national service man. Australia by developing supportive Don Horsley The deduction of ‘taxation instalments’ leave policies in conjunction with the Affairs and Nutrition Australia (WA from DFRB and DFRDB entitlements Defence Reserves Support team. Division), the Cooking for One or Two BOOK: Well Done, Those MenA program aims to give participants memoir on the senseless damage of constitutes not only a form of All four companies state they “value ‘assignment’, but also a form of (albeit practice in preparing quick and easy war.Date: 02 April 2007 and support all employees who are meals. The sessions also offer the unlawfully imposed) ‘passing by members of the Defence Force Well Done, Those Men operation of law’. opportunity to improve nutrition Reserves” and they have committed to knowledge and meet new people. Barry Heard, Published by Scribe In plain English, it already is (and financially supporting their Reservists RRP $24.95. always has been) legislatively unlawful in their service to Defence by making for taxation of any kind to be imposed additional payments, above and upon DFRB or DFRDB entitlements! beyond that required, whilst making a In accordance with the legal concept commitment to honour the provisions of pre-existing legislative entitlement, of the (Reserve Protection) Act . it is my further contention that the It is hoped that all automotive suppliers proposed new ‘Superannuation will soon follow suit by developing Simplification’ legislation does not similar leave policies. have the Constitutional, legislative or Specialists in Defence Reserves legal authority to amend, repeal, issues worked in each state and abolish, effect, or overpower the territory and were available to help legislative entitlements which already employers develop leave policies. exist under the provisions of either the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits A set of guidelines has been developed, Act 1948 or the Defence Forces in consultation with peak bodies, for Retirement and Death Benefits Act all private sector employers. Federal, 1973. State, Territory and Local Governments 18 15 new services as well as sleeping and threaten us or the local community,” he and their instrumentalities are covered been true some years ago, but living quarters, which is a great said. under separate policies. successive government penny-pinching improvement on what they are used Lieutenant Colonel Jarvie said the latest The business environment is complex and inaction over 20 years means that to,” said Lieutenant Pring. incidents will not disrupt his mission. and multi-faceted. A single solution will this statement is no longer true. In To conduct the task, Lieutenant Pring not suit all circumstances. Accepting many cases veterans and their families “We will continue with our work and show are worse off than those Australians in called on his tradesmen and the Taliban that they have no place here. this, the aim of these guidelines is to earthmovers. provide a model of supportive receipt of welfare and unemployment “We are determined to create necessary arrangements and practices that is of pensions “We had two bulldozers, an excavator infrastructure to better the lives of the and two bobcats operating on the job. general application. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is the local communities. In the case of benchmark for increases to the General, They are up-armoured and provide the building this new Police out-post, this The guidelines provide clear direction same ballistic protection as the to employers, Reservists and the Intermediate, and Special Rate, (in the will assist local Afghan National Security TPI element it is CPI or MTAWE Bushmaster and the Light Armoured Forces in deterring those who foster Defence Force in relation to Reservists vehicles,” he said. There was also a employed in the private sector. whatever is the higher), of veteran’s terror and oppose the people’s right to pensions. Remuneration of politicians potent security force providing freedom,” he said. Employers are strongly encouraged to protection to the worksite. adopt the guidelines as a best-practice is indexed on the higher of CPI and Male Total Average Weekly Earnings The Afghan National Police who have Gap Year Filling Up model for supportive workplace arrangements and practices. “ (MTAWE). Veterans have suffered $90 now moved into this new out-post were All young people who are considering erosion in their benefits since 1997. grateful for their new facility. For further information on Defence the ADF Gap Year for 2008 to apply now At the same time as the Reserve Bank They will now be able to exert more as places are filling up quickly. Reserves leave policies go to www.defence.gov.au/reserves/ has raised interest rates by 25 points control over the area, which is around The skills they will gain in terms of in order to rein back spending and the 10km east of the provincial capital, teamwork, self-discipline, Vietnam Veterans Association independent tribunal raised politicians Tarin Kowt. communication and access to emerging Of Australia pay packets by thousands of dollars, Commander of the RTF, Lieutenant technologies will assist them in their Media Release war veterans, ex-Service men and Colonel Harry Jarvie said Taliban future studies and will be valued highly women and Public Service retirees were extremists continue to resort to by prospective employers. All this while 13th August 2007 Ref: 8/07 informed that because the CPI actually intimidation and terror tactics. He said earning between $30,000 and $46,000 Over the past twenty five years dropped they would get no increase in that projects which strengthen security over the year. Australian governments both Liberal their pensions this six months. infrastructure and add to the capability On 9 August 2007, the Prime Minister and Labor have eroded and diminished All Australians were told that retirees of the local police will help put an end announced that Defence is now the entitlements awarded to returned over the age of 60 would pay no tax. to this intimidation. accepting applications for the Australian service men and women after World They were not told that the exceptions “The Afghan National Security Forces Government’s ADF Gap Year program. War One. are ex-Service personnel in receipt of are the key to this country,” he said. Within less than a fortnight since The Australian Parliament recognised Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefit (DFRDB) superannuation and “We are currently undertaking a applications were opened, there have the ongoing suffering of those men and been more than 500 applications, 12,000 women who saw service in the trenches public servants in receipt of number of projects in Oruzgan Province Commonwealth Superannuation enquiries and over 33,000 visits to the of Europe in the Great War. Grateful which will see their standing within the Scheme (CSS) and Public Sector community greatly improved.” ADF Gap Year website. Also promising Australians saw that proud heritage and the commensurate cost to Superannuation Scheme (PSS) is that over 300 people have used the superannuation pensions to which they Lieutenant Colonel Jarvie said the online chat facility and there have been individuals repeated during World War attacks on his forces were an contributed. over 3,000 requests for packs via the text Two, and the post-1945 conflicts indication that the projects were hitting message service. including Korea, Malaysia, Borneo and Veterans’ expenditure on the Taliban where it hurts. Vietnam. Peacemaking, Peacekeeping pharmaceuticals required as a result of Since December 2006, the Australian “The Taliban are obviously concerned and disaster recovery deployments their war-caused disabilities or illness Government has committed $3.1 billion with the progress we are making. With after Vietnam are smugly usurped by used to be free, but not any more due to recruitment and retention measures the rise of the national security forces, politicians of both sides in furtherance to the application of the pharmaceutical which include the ADF Gap Year, comes the Taliban’s downfall. of their own agendas. co-payment. recruiting reform and ADF pay reform. “That is why they are trying to disrupt It is the proud boast of the Minister for “The men and women that politicians The Australian Government’s measures our work. They found out the hard way Veterans’ Affairs, Mr Billson, that pretend to honour on ANZAC Day for are taking the ADF in the right direction last week – twice – that we don’t give Australia has the best repatriation their sacrifices in defence of Australia as shown by the ADF pay reform from 9 up ground and will fight back if they system in the world. That might have and Australia’s interests are being 16 17 denied a fair go. If Australian Parents before initial consideration, or in agencies will work together to Operations Task Group preparing to knew how badly we treat our veterans connection with events that took determine eligible applicants. deploy into Oruzgan Province in and Service men and women, the “Gap place in the distant past (e.g. Veterans’ organisations and southern Afghanistan as part of Year” initiative will die a thoroughly commemorative medals); Service and Regimental Operation Slipper. deserved death. The Vietnam Veterans - if the recipient has received a Associations will also be involved.” The new SFTF, valued at $94 million, Association of Australia demands to British award for the same service. will be one of only four of its kind in the see restoration of the entitlements that Mess Silver - However, Her Majesty’s world providing leading-edge training to have been so cynically diminished.” The Association has recently been able counter-terrorism forces. said Mr Coxon, National President of Government welcomes, and believes it is important to to negotiate a transfer of the old Mess The new facilities will include indoor and the Vietnam Veterans Association of Silver from the Sergeant’s Mess at Australia. recognise, the generous gesture by outdoor multi-level electronic and live the King and Government of Perth Workshop Company. Some of firing ranges as well as a variety of Pingat Jasa Malaysia Malaysia, and their wish to this Silver is quite old and was in the training environments for 4 RAR For British Servicemen acknowledge the service given by Mess when some our older members Commando. served in the Unit. “The Pingat Jasa Malaysia (PJM) is a veterans and others in the years The facilities will be used to train for commemorative medal which the Gov- immediately after Malaysian The Silver will be kept and displayed counter-terrorism scenarios and other ernment of Malaysia would like to award independence. The exception either at the 13 CSSB Workshop specific Special Forces roles. recommended reflects this and our Company or at the Area Sergeant’s to eligible British citizens, for their serv- Australia’s Special Forces are among ice in Malaya or Malaysia between strong and important relationship Mess at Karrakatta. It will be made with Malaysia. available for formal functions by the best in the world and this is due not 31August 1957 and 12 August 1966. only to their skill and professionalism - The Committee on the Grant of arrangement with the Association The Committee on the Grant of Secretary. but also their supplies, equipment and Honours, Decorations and Medals (the Honours, Decorations and Medals training facilities. official committee which advises Her reviewed the 5-year and double The artefacts that we were lucky medalling rules, and considered enough to get included: The new SFTF is part of a larger project Majesty The Queen on matters of that will see the construction of new honours policy) has recommended that that, while there were sound Silver Goblets, Candelabra, Place Mats reasons why they should be office accommodation and an upgrade an exception to two of the long- Drink Coasters, Microwave; and a Bar of infrastructure at Holsworthy established Rules governing the retained, there will be occasions Fridge. when specific circumstances Barracks. accepting and wearing of foreign The Association were also given the (including Commonwealth) awards be require exceptions to the rules to be recommended. When such Honour Board showing CO’s and Construction Complete, made, to enable the Malaysian ASM’s of Perth Workshop Company. Government to present the PJM. Her exceptions are contemplated, the Taliban Repelled Committee will consider each This is a very historical piece and we Majesty The Queen has been were very lucky to find it. The Afghanistan-based Reconstruction graciously pleased to approve this request on a case by case basis, Task Force (RTF) yesterday completed recommendation. taking into account any special These articles will be a great asset to the construction of a police out-post in circumstances at the time. The fact our growing collection of Corps the southern Oruzgan Province. This exception to the Rules means that that a similar request has been Memorabilia. all of the many thousands of eligible approved in the past will not mean The out-post was completed in six days former members of the Armed Forces/ under trying circumstances, including that permission will be granted in Governor-General Opens Special Veterans, and others, may receive the future cases. two serious clashes with the Taliban and PJM. This will be in addition to the Forces Training Facility At an encounter with an Improvised British General Service Medal (with - Applications for the PJM, and its Holsworthy Explosive Device (IED) which was found subsequent distribution will appropriate Malaya/Borneo clasp) that The Governor-General, His Excellency and removed before it could harm many veterans will have been eligible essentially be a matter for the anyone. Malaysian authorities, in MAJ GEN Michael Jeffery, AC, CVO, to receive for their service in Malaya/ MC, officially opened the new Special The engineer commander, Lieutenant Borneo. collaboration with the relevant British Government Departments. Forces Training Facility (SFTF) at John Pring said the police out-post was Permission to wear the PJM will not, Large numbers may be involved. It Holsworthy Barracks today. strategically sited, in consultation with however, formally be given. It is long will take some time for the The Governor-General was joined by Afghan National Security Forces, to standing Government policy that non- applications to be processed and the Minister for Defence the Hon Dr. ensure it had a commanding presence British medals will not be approved for for the medal to be distributed. The Brendan Nelson MP as they inspected over the local area. events or service: Malaysian High Commission and the new facilities and farewelled “There is significant blast protection built - that took place more than 5 years the relevant British Government Sydney-based members of the Special into the position. We have also installed