Hi there ALBIE MANTON in DARWIN...

Whoever your last question may've been directed too, you speak a lot of good sense my friend. You sure you never wore blue Albie ?

OSW...no mate only the baggy green skin from '77 - '88 as a Regular & from there until 2010 with Reserves. I enjoyed great times with many of the NT coppers (serving and retired/transferred) from other state forces who served with me in the Top End.

What all of us agreed upon was the over-politicising, political correctness that infested the hierarchy in both military & police forces, beginning around the mid 1990's. I call it the McDonalds Management Style...too much accounting by bean counters trying to hide funds for next years budget with no real work done by the troops who were all being fed on 'hamburgers' which got smaller & smaller for the same price.

I don't like to see anyone shot or attack by the knife especially to the face.

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Hi (again) ALBIE MANTON IN DARWIN...

I spent a bit over 32 years in NSWPOL, but have occasionally done an attachment or two with NTPOL, more specifically OPDELTA at Pine Gap in 1983. I was amazed at both the level of their training, together with their bucket loads of common sense; or to put it more succinctly, 'commondogf..k'. I liaised with a Det Snr Const. of NTPOL and got to know him quite well over the three and a bit weeks the operation ran. And I was positively inspired at their solo abilities, and their decision making processes, generally the stuff of a Det Sgt or above in NSWPOL ?

I suspect because they spend so much time working 'one-out' in large patrol districts, I guess they have to be able to think on their feet, otherwise the vastness of NT could also claim them, as well as other conceivable threats. Threats otherwise unknown, to us city detectives. I was very impressed with them, altogether.

Albie you sound like you're a real NT devotee, and I can understand why. You mention NORFORCE (made up of mainly indigenous Aussies and they do a really splendid job as well so I've heard!) I met a group of 'em when we had to go interview a bloke 'banged-up' at Gunn Point not far from Darwin proper. It's a sort of prison camp and the Inmates are supposed to be trustees and they keep an eye-out all along the coastline there. And for some reason a couple of members from NORFORCE were passing through at the time?

Of course I'm an old man now as is my dear wife, but I could quite easily live in Darwin when we're younger, luxuriating in the warm tropical heat, really a curative environment for all my creaking old arthritic bones.

Been away from civilization for the last week, only about thirty miles away but effectively cut off.
We were out in rugged country at the top of the Divide, south east of Tenterfield, after some troublesome wild dogs; didn't get them but had to pass up a lot of foxes as we didn't want to spook the dogs.
Got into the foxes yesterday though and we bagged seven.

o sung wu,

Not trying to upstage you mate, but the two blokes that I mentioned were WWII vets and as one of them said not long after he killed a crim in an exchange of shots,that he'd killed Italians, Germans and Japanese all of whom were probably good blokes and were serving their various countries, so he wasn't worried about killing a criminal, especially one that had tried to kill him.

Albie, I never met Norm Goldspink but I'd heard of him; thankfully I wasn't at Kapyong, I knew a fair few of those that were and to sit and listen to them talk about the battle was an experience not to be missed and the reason that I'm happy to have not been in the Battalion at the time. I like to think that I'd have been as game as they were but I've got me doubts!!

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Hi there IS MISE...

They're wiley creatures those foxes, you did well to knock over seven of em'!

I fully understand what you're saying now, and the distinction between killing the enemy who are simply defending their own countries, and who probably have the same ideology about the war as any soldier, juxtaposed against a lousy crim, especially one sending a round or two in your mate's direction !

What did your use on the foxes by the way ? These days I'd need an 8g if such a beast is commercially available ?