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Poets Corner 

God, Please Don’t Strike Our Military Purple

02/09/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1864 Views 1 Comment

Always has been personal pride of warriors wearing military thread Confident and firm stride, be it off duty or on

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This Gloster Meteor F.8 is part of the Royal Australian Air Force’s Temora Historic Flight. Temora Aviation Museum image via RAAF web site.
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THE MEAT BOX

31/08/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 687 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

WHEN SOUTH KOREA WAS ATTACKED, BY IT’S NEIGHBOUR FROM THE NORTH A DESPERATE CRY FROM THE WEAK, BROUGHT 77 SQUADRON

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Australian National Flag. Courtesy PM&C.
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Our Flag is Not For Sale

27/08/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 893 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

Our proud flag, flying high above, is me and you Speak evil of her and she will in time bid

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Australian troops disembark a Qantas aircraft to start their tour of duty in Vietnam, at Saigon Airport, April 1966. Photo by WO2 'Billy' Cunneen – AWM CUN/66/0357/VN
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Back in The Day

23/07/2023 Mick Shave 1202 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Remember how we’d rant and roar, The joyful days that went before? We didn’t care what well might be For

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An Australian Army soldier proudly pins his well-earned Skippy badge to his puggaree after completing Exercise Hardcorps at the School of Infantry, Singleton, New South Wales. Photo by Corporal Shane Kelly.
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Genesis The Royal Australian Regiment

23/07/2023 Mick Shave 1374 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Comprised of three battalions and veterans every man, The brigade we sent from Moratai to occupy Japan Was professional, made

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Photo by Corporal Olivia Cameron.
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Jim

15/06/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1287 Views 0 Comments By Jeff Austin

Let’s call him Jim, ‘cause that’s what she called him Outback Jackaroo, farmer, brother, privileged class A time of brotherhood,

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Using Facebook

28/05/2023 Mick Shave 1786 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

It is good to be proud of your service, Remembering what you have done; The trials and the tribulations, The

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Porky

26/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1806 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

. . When I joined the Air Force Back in 1966 We were young and clever And thought we knew

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PTSD unmasked – subject Trooper David Nicholson – makeup by Ambah de Smet – photography by Justin Marshall, JM Photography.
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FEW COME BACK

06/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1853 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

  I WATCHED THEM, NO LONGER YOUNG, THOSE WHO ANSWERED THE CALL A SOBER, SOMBER REMINDER, THE ONES WHO GAVE

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Members of the 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment (Queensland Mounted Infantry) participate in the ANZAC Day Dawn Service at Talil, Iraq, 2008. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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Leave ANZAC Day Alone  

03/05/202303/05/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1713 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

A very special sacred day to salute our fallen from the first to the last To reflect on glorious deeds

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Australian National Flag. Courtesy PM&C.
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YET ANOTHER CHALLENGE IN OUR HISTORY 

14/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2624 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

        1939–A war and its trials we did not seek  Can you recall far distant drumbeats of

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Members of Australia's Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) prepare to fly into Oruzgan's Baluchi Valley and Chora regions in support of an MTF1 mission, in 2010. Photo by Lieutenant Aaron Oldaker.
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Duty and Consequences

05/04/202305/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1780 Views 0 Comments By George Mansford

. What strange rules for combat wrapped in white flags we use To placate political masters far distant from arenas

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THE FACE IN THE MIRROR

04/04/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1738 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

I HAD BEEN DOWN TO HELL MORE TIMES THAN I COULD COUNT EVERY TIME I STUMBLED MY WOES WOULD ALWAYS

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A thumbs up is given as a banner is placed across the front of an Air Force C-17A Globemaster aircraft to show support to mental health awareness on R U OK? Day at RAAF Base Amberley. Photo by Peter Longland.
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SURVIVOR

29/03/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 1975 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

I AM NOT A HERO, I JUST DID MY JOB SOME SAY AS A SERVICEMAN, I WASN’T WORTH TWO BOB

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Australian Army soldiers from Special Operations Task Group prepare for a mission at Multi-National Base Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan, in 2012.
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A Song for Singing

29/03/202329/03/2023 Mick Shave 1693 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

Everyone knows this song – but will they sing it? Australians all let us rejoice For we are young and

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Supporting Soldier C

21/03/2023 Mick Shave 2346 Views 1 Comment By Michael Shave

Soldiers do as they are told It isn’t fair that when they’re old Those well trained men (and so well

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Trooper Jakob West from Rifle Company Butterworth Rotation 137 fights through the final objective, covering arduous terrain through dense jungle. Story by Captain Diana Jennings. All photos by Bombardier Guy Sadler.
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Acrostic Fire & Movement

19/03/202319/03/2023 Mick Shave 2413 Views 1 Comment By Michael Shave

An Acrostic to do With Minor Tactics And some advice. Fighting needs a certain care, Its conduct ruled by those

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ANZAC Day 2020 in Kiama Downs NSW. Photo by Brian Hartigan.
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THE MILITARY MISSUS

11/03/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2359 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

SHE’LL ALWAYS TELL IT AS IT IS, NO RESPECT FOR MILITARY RANK AND IF THE NEED ARISES, SOMETIMES SHE CAN

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The cushions of St George Church, Ypres. Photo by Michael Shave.
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Cushions at St. George

05/03/2023 Mick Shave 2242 Views 0 Comments By Michael Shave

The Cushions of Saint George (and commemorations in general) There’s a little church in Ypres which commemorates our dead, So

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RAAF Squadron Leader Keith W 'Bluey' Truscott taxiing his P-40E Kittyhawk along the Marston Mats at Milne Bay Fighter Strip #3, Milne Bay, New Guinea, Sep 1942. Photo courtesy Australian War Memorial.
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The Shite Hawks of Milne Bay

03/03/2023 Posted by Brian Hartigan 2304 Views 0 Comments By Tomas 'Paddy' Hamilton

Back in 1942, things looked pretty grim The enemy was at Australia’s door, our chances seemed so thin Britain was

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