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ZL2VAL > LETTER 27.10.04 03:38l 78 Lines 3122 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Letter home from Boot camp
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Sent: 041026/2256Z @:ZL2AB.#46.NZL.OC #:50545 [New Plymouth] FBB7.00g
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This one is good
Text of a letter from a kid from Eromanga to Mum and Dad.
(For those of you not in the know, Eromanga is a small town west of
Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland)
Dear Mum & Dad,
I am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big brothers Doug and Phil that
the Army is better than workin' on the farm - tell them to Get in bloody
quick smart before the jobs are all gone!
I wuz a bit slow in settling down at first, because ya don't hafta get
outta bed until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all you gotta do
before brekky is make ya bed and shine ya boots and clean Ya uniform.
No bloody cows to milk, no calves to feed, no feed to stack nothin'!!
Blokes haz gotta shave though, but its not so bad, coz there's lotsa hot
water and even a light to see what ya doing!
At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs but there's no kangaroo steaks
or possum stew like wot Mum makes. You don't get fed again until noon, and
by that time all the city boys are buggered because we've been on a 'route
march' - geez its only just like walking to the windmill in the back
paddock!!
This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with laughter. I keep getting
medals for shootin' - dunno why. The bullseye is as Big as a bloody
possum's bum and it don't move and its not firing Back at ya like the
Johnsons did when our big scrubber bull got into their Prize cow before
the
Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is make yourself comfortable and hit the
target -its a piece of piss!! You don't even load your own cartridges -
they comes in little boxes and ya don't have To steady yourself against
the
rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you reload!
Sometimes ya gotta wrestle with the city boys and I gotta Be real careful
coz they break easy - it's not like fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack
and Boori and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at home after the
muster.
Turns out I'm not a bad boxer either and it looks like I'm The best
the platoon's got, and I've only been beaten by this one bloke From
the Engineers - he's 6 foot 5 and 15 stone and three pickhandles
across the shoulders and as ya know I'm only 5 foot 7 and eight stone
wringin' wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the
boozer.
I can't complain about the Army - tell the boys to get in quick before
word
gets around how bloody good it is.
Your loving daughter,
Jill
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73, Alan
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Message timed: 11:59 on 27-Oct-2004
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