ANZAC Newsletter - RAAMC Association

Thank You
(From your Committee)
Thank you Members, for your yearly dues,
donations and LIFE MEMBERSHIPS,
they are so very much appreciated.
….for completing your (FREE) Application
Form to join the RAAMC Association
Inc.
….for giving your “unwanted Magazine” to
your local doctors/hospital waiting rooms/
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chemists/RSLs/etc “Reading Rooms” for
their enjoyment.
….To all the businesses who have paid our
publishers to have their advertisement
placed in our magazine.
….To our members who have paid by EFT
and for identifying yourself. (There are
some members who are a little behind
with their Subs—any little effort is much
appreciated.)
… For your contributions, letters and
emails. They are enjoyed by us all and
are an encouragement.
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5 Field Ambulance RAAMC
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decide you may now wish to discontinue to
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not so, but if it is please let me know and
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CONSCRIPTING BLOKES
OVER 60!
(With kind thanks to my email friends)
I am over 60 and the Defence Force thinks I’m too old
to track down terrorists. You can’t be older than 42 to join
the military. They’ve got the whole thing wrong.
Instead of sending 18-year-olds off to fight, they ought
to take us old blokes. You shouldn’t be allowed to join a
defence unit until you’re at least 35.
For starters; Researchers say 18-year-olds think about
sex every 10 seconds. Us old blokes only think about sex a
couple of times a day, leaving us more than 28,000
seconds a day to concentrate on the enemy.
Young blokes haven’t lived long enough to be cranky,
and a cranky soldier is a dangerous soldier… ”My back
hurts!” “I can’t sleep”, “I’m tired and hungry”. We are
impatient and maybe letting us kill some terrorist that
desperately deserves it will make us feel better and shut
us up for a while.
An 18-year-old doesn’t even like to get up before
10am. Old blokes always get up early to pee, so what the
hell. Besides, like I said, I’m tired and can’t sleep and since
I’m already up, I may as well be up killing some fanatical
enemy.
If captured, we couldn’t “spill the beans” because we’d
forget where we put them! In fact, Name, Rank, and Serial
Number would be a real brainteaser.
Training would be easier for us old blokes. We’re used
to getting screamed and yelled at and we’re used to soft
food. We’ve also developed an appreciation for guns.
We’ve been using them for years as an excuse to get out
of the house, away from the screaming and yelling.
‘They’ could lighten up on the obstacle course,
however. I’ve been in combat and didn’t see a single 20 ft
wall with rope hanging over the side, nor did I ever do any
push-ups after completing basic training.
Actually, the running part is kind of a waste of energy,
too. I’ve never seen anyone outrun a bullet.
An 18-year-old has the whole world in front of him.
He’s still learning to shave, to start up a conversation with
a pretty sheila. He still hasn’t figured out that a baseball
cap has a brim to shade his eyes, not the back of his head!
He still hasn’t worked out that below the hip jeans or
shorts will trip him up, one way or another. But who said
it looks good anyway.
These are all great reasons to keep our kids at home to
learn a little bit more about life before sending them off
into harm’s way.
Let us old farts track down those dirty rotten coward
terrorists. The last thing an enemy would want to see is a
couple of million pissed off old farts with attitudes and
automatic weapons, who know that their best years are
behind them.
Then how about recruiting women over 50--- in
menopause!!! You think men have attitudes
Ooohhhh my God!!! If nothing else, put them on boat
peoples border patrol in WA---they will have it secured
the first night?
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