and numerous others bits of evidence to prove my claims.
Galen,
Haven't you forgotten something ? Good pay, Superannuation, accommodation, food etc. ?
Service to the Country, well ok but the Country served you well also ! It's called a Symbiosis !

To Galen.

If you ever picked up a book on military history you would discover that time and time again, illiterate barbarians or even farmers inflicted stunning defeats upon modern armies led by educated idiots with long and sometimes distinguished military careers. Those idiots had chest's full of medals and mouth's full of names and titles. Claiming that only frocked military experts can comment upon military affairs, and that amateurs should just shut up, has been the usual excuse for hundreds of years of the most appalling military incompetence.

I opposed the Vietnam War because I read books by soldiers, journalists, politicians, and historians, that clearly demonstrated that the US forces in Vietnam were the new Redcoats opposing what was essentially a war of national liberation. There are few people today who think that the US and it's allies were right in fighting that war.

By your own reasoning, I had no business working out whom was right and who was wrong in Vietnam, or whether the war could even be won, because I was not a politician or a general. Nuts to that.

I don't care who or what you were in the Australian military. You possess a completely bizarre worldview that does not conform to self evident reality. Perhaps you watch the UABC (Un Australian Broadcasting Commission) too much?

As to "not answering your questions." If you invent some completely wacky conspiracy theory, don't expect your sceptics to even take it seriously or even bother to disprove it. Everybody in the world saw those airliners hit those buildings, and if you implying that the yanks somehow staged the event and packed the buildings with explosives, it makes me wonder at your sanity. I no more need to try and disprove your bizarre theory than I need to prove to Runner that the universe was not created in six days.

As I said Lego, it’s pointless attempting to converse with you as you won’t open your mind to the obvious.

I opposed the ‘war’ in Iraq in 2003, a morally repugnant action by the US and blatant crime against humanity and breach of international law.

Individual, pay-below the national average, superannuation-about the same as most non military pension systems, food-often good, sometimes terrible but you eat what’s available at the time, shelter-just a roof over the old head unless one is deployed operationally, comes with the job.
Galen