Aussie Defense Review 2000

I'll have to forward this to my Australian girlfriend(who is anti-gun btw). Lets see what she has to say about that!
 
Good God, that's scary. If half of it is true Australia is in DEEP doo-doo.
I can see armory personnel not knowing how to reassemble Stens and Enfields, but unable to store the parts where they belong?
And I knew everybody hated the Steyr-Aug (I assume that's what an F88 is) but I didn't know it was that ugly. Three magazines and then half an hour to cool, for God's sake?

Obviously a war department full of people who don't believe there'll be another war.
 
B L O O D Y H E L L !

I will be joining the Aus. army reserve soon.......


" And I knew everybody hated the Steyr-Aug (I assume that's what an F88 is) but I didn't know it was that ugly "

I was under the same impression.
No wonder the Aus. special forces units have asked (and recieved) M4 variants instead of Augs.

Seems to me that the only useful thing to do would be to carry 4 or so Augs so if one overheats you have some sort of backup. Until all 4 overheat....
Seems I should try find one of those Vietnam War era M-60 gloves.
 
It continually amazes me that, having undergone what their nations did during WWII, our English-speaking cousins in the U.K. and Australia are unilaterally disarming themselves. We in the U.S. sent the British many, many rifles (not just military, but also donated civilian hunting arms), when they were under the threat of invasion by the Germans. The Japanese were a hop, skip, and a jump away from being able to invade Australia. Do these people not teach history any more? Have they not read Churchill? Do they think that history does not repeat? Do they think the U.S. military umbrella will protect them forever?
 
In regards to the teaching of modern history in Australia for the final two years of high school, the first year has a high proportion of content related to communism and the second year of modern history for no reason becomes philosophy based subject matter. I never learnt anything about modern history in my final year of high school.
So while I thought I would learn about actual history of the past 200 years or so, I was instead being trained on how to be a "good little socialist"(tm).

You'll be glad to know I failed "modern history".

Although we did spend a month or so on the Vietnam War at one point, there was never any indepth study of that conflict, mostly brief study on the main events.
Luckily for me I was able to find a thick tome on the Vietnam War in the school library which was very indepth, and was written by the men who were there. Covered everything from "toe-poppers" to the jolly green giants, the native hill tribes enlisted by U.S. Green Berets et al, the recapturing of Hue after the Tet offensive, the Ho Chi Minh trail. Basically every aspect of that war.
 
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