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Originally Posted by I.C.D
G,Day Paul
We had a dipstick for a 2ND lieutenant too I did hear later that the platoon Sargent punch his light out at the end of the intake piss up .I take it if you were going to Bandiana you would have been in RAAOC the Ordnance corp
Ian  C |
Yes Ian, RAAOC at Bandiana was where I was supposed to go. God the officers and NCO's at Singleton were a mixed lot. Some were blokes we instinctively respected enormously and some of our ideas about what we would do if we ever saw live action was quickly corrected by their accounts of what it was really like. Even raw recruits like us could see through the dipsticks. One NCO was gay and he had a couple of other NCO's scout around the new recruits for likely prospects. Our experienced NCO's warned us about them. Anyone with a sheltered upbringing grew up pretty quickly there. Cheers, Paul.