Silly Picture Thread.

[facthunter]

Maybe I err on the other side. I try to keep it Simple and brief.. IF i was talking to a group I'd be basic in the coverage and encourage lots of questions and add a few myself if the need was there.. Any learning process needs consolidation soon after or much will disappear,   Nev

[old man emu]

37 minutes ago, onetrack said:

all the blokes I knew who went through Officer training, ended up in major positions.

How did they perform, generally?

 

24 minutes ago, red750 said:

get truly lost in some of the posts on this forum, particulaly from OME

I do waffle on, don't I?

[red750]

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

I do waffle on, don't I?

With all the work on your reno, I don't know where you get the time to do the research.

[old man emu]

Ummm  Work on the reno???? Oh, yeah. That. Can't forget that. 

 

 

[nomadpete]

3 hours ago, old man emu said:

How did they perform, generally?

 

 

On average, poorly. Just look how few generals we have

[onetrack]

I must say the vast majority of the officers in the Australian Army were good, and competent. But as always, there were a few who were just a PIA, and up themselves, and incompetent with it.

There were several incidents where infantry troops became enraged at officer incompetence, and poor treatment of other ranks, and this resulted in none-too-subtle warnings such as a grenade rolled into their tent. In those cases, the officer was normally shipped out pretty rapidly, and replaced.

 

Australia has few Generals because our military forces are few in number. In fact, senior officer positions are very limited and anyone wanting to further their career usually leaves the military for a position in civilian life. Engineering skills are in demand in civvy street, and I know more than one Vietnam veteran RAE officer who made a successful transition to civil engineering.

 

John Tick is one such individual, he runs an engineering consultancy business here in Perth. He was formerly Capt John Tick in Vietnam, and CO of 2 Troop, I Field Sqdn, RAE.

He's taken a leading management position in MIVAC, Mine Victims and Clearance, a very worthy non-profit organisation that cleans up residual mines in Vietnam and Laos, and which assists mine victims and communities affected by the huge number of residual mines in the region.

 

https://www.aprodem.com.au/home.html

 

https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1159948

 

https://www.mivac.org.au/2012/10/john-salter-and-john-tick-visited-ban-xai/

 

https://www.mivac.org.au/about-mivac/

 

 

 

[facthunter]

Commissioned Officers can't go into the  Seargent's (non Comms) mess without invitation.  Nev

[nomadpete]

No offense was intended,  I was just playing with the words... in general

[red750]

Brilliant job....

 

[old man emu]

Didn't you know that lengths of vertical pipe are so much more expensive than the horizontal pipe?

[nomadpete]

That'll stop the damn gate slamming in the wind.

 

Now what else can I fix for ya?

 

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:57 PM by nomadpete
why, oh why can't I see my mistakes until after I hit the POST button?

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, old man emu said:

Didn't you know that lengths of vertical pipe are so much more expensive than the horizontal pipe?

This is true, I was at a plumbing shop once and the guy said they'd had a buyer send back lengths of 100mm drain (which were going to be buried underground)... because the outside of the pipes were dirty.

[pmccarthy]

The vertical pipes are much harder to transport.

[onetrack]

But just look at the number of elbows they saved, doing it this way!