Hey Guys i love reading the posts from down under...Your language is fascinating...ThumbUpThumbUp
The first and only time i ran into Aussie's was back in 1966 Vung Tau..Nam... Made the mistake of asking if you guys were from England.....:gah:
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Hey Guys i love reading the posts from down under...Your language is fascinating...ThumbUpThumbUp
The first and only time i ran into Aussie's was back in 1966 Vung Tau..Nam... Made the mistake of asking if you guys were from England.....:gah:
[QUOTE=rhino 2;376739]Hey Guys i love reading the posts from down under...Your language is fascinating...ThumbUpThumbUp
The first and only time i ran into Aussie's was back in 1966 Vung Tau..Nam... Made the mistake of asking if you guys were from England.....:gah:[/QUOTE]
Yea I bet you learned real quick on that one.
[QUOTE=Gorilla;376816]Yea I bet you learned real quick on that one.[/QUOTE]
Yep i think i had to buy about 10 rounds of ''33'' AKA- Tiger Piss...To get out of there in one piece..
But it was all comradeship.. And a few laughs... Up till then i thought it was just GI's and Rock Soldiers at Johnson's party... :Shrug:
Just to add there is an Haunting Aussie song' [God help me] I was only 19...By John Schumann....
Kinda deeper than Good night Saigon by Billy Joel.... Any Vietnam vet would under stand it.. Even if it is sung in Australian....ThumbUp
My first night of liberty in Australia, some Aussie sailors got me so drunk I agreed to play Rugby ... 8 weeks later, the cast came off my knee. My CO was not real happy that one of his Watch Supervisors couldn't go in the Engineroom for 8 weeks. But they tell me I had a great time. It wasn't long after that, I gave up drinking ... :AGGHH:.