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Night Shift

Night Shift

Since I am awake at 4am I thought I'd start this thread for those of us who have trouble sleeping and might find it helpful to have a place to go to chat. Whatever gets you through the night is alright.

To get the ball rolling, I'll just say that I enjoyed being part of the Topic Tuesday discussion tonight. I wish it was possible for these events to be weekly rather than monthly. Either way, thanks SANE and all the people I've met on here over recent months.

Edited June 2016 and February 2017: Night Shift is now open 24 hours a day. To join in, just click through to the last page of the thread at the top right of this post to get to the latest message.

Edited April 2017 and June 2017: For the sake of better communications between members here, I am adding that this thread is meant to be a caring, kind and gentle place of sharing. Humour is welcome, as long as its not unkindly directed towards other members. Hope your time in this chat thread is rewarding.

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*sigh* ah yes the old SLRs. None of that plastic Steyr rubbish the kids have thes days. Lol

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Ha ha @Former-Member

needed a video camera xx

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..standing .. by your ..beds ..haha .. why did you salute an NCO @Former-Member lol

I will never forget my '81 Days' at Kapooka.. how the section commanders got us to do all that shit, but mostly were somehow so cool.. had the best senses of humor, best, well ironic jokes

I wanted to run away as arriving on bus.. getting cutlery thrown down floor to us, getting marched in dark to mess which seemed to be run by Hare Krishnas re haircuts etc what the and the what the's just kept on coming ... lol

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Nice one, @Former-Member He must have seen it all, I'm sure! 😄

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..SMR range, in vertical concrete pipe thing .. re SLRs.. could hear bolt work .. it just ..rang.. @Former-Member

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I was wondering that too, @TAB. Maybe @Former-Member was actually a Raafie and is now just confused. Or perhaps on red tabs. 😉

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God knows they made us do all that crap as you say @ TAB...I remember one of the female officers giving me a serve for not doing an 'about turn' properly. All the male officers training us told her to leave me alone. She just didn't like me for some reason 😏..meh army smarmy!!

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Sweeeeet. But quite possibly dangerous?? Back in those days, it was all peacetime stuff so life was relatively light hearted hey.

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Yeah. Meh. Lol Good thing the guys had your back. Not sure the seccos were officers though. Haha The memory is dim. 🙂

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I wish re tabs .. nah, s'all good, I was good at 'trade' in army, got on ok with most people, were some cool times( how much time do you have?) but I was a CRAP soldier lol few blips when put effort in then decided to just walk away. Well when time was up. brother is still in raafj's well he did at least 9yrs in army then had to do basic again in 30s, stress fracture@s in feet etc, well his wife started in raaf went to army met him and decided they both had to go there lol SGT Jen lol @Former-Member

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