Thread: Roberts-Smith

Originally Posted by chuck

No cynicism

Up until the ODF i was a young signals rigger who only really played with guns heavily supervised on the range.

The ODF required us to have some limited infantry skills, so a real eye opener for a young rigger used to playing with antennas, masts, towers, comms cables etc.

Up until then my biggest risk was falling from height.

So SNAP. I was in Sigs recently as Transport NCO for a local Squadron & responsible for the smooth running of a SQDN Fleet of about 12 S2A FFRs.

Previously in Nasho in '56 as "OP Wireless & Line" ( I don't think that trade is applicable in today's army).????

Originally Posted by vnx205

Interesting that you should say that.

Ann old farmer I knew a few years back who had fought at Kokoda wrote a book called "The Corporals' War'. (Strictly speaking someone helped him write it. He was illiterate.)

He told me that in his experience, no-one above the rank of corporal actually knew what was happening on the ground. I assumed that was because of the nature of the terrain at Kokoda.

Maybe it is more common than that.

Or maybe I would have been a better fit back in the his era