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Originally Posted by TarJak

LOL so are the Libs with Brendan in charge!

I join The Australian Infantry in 1988 and for 8 long boring years we sat on our bums conducting exercises within Australia the good old LABOR policy of "Home-Defence", same exercises year after year, same concept, defend Australia, dig defensives positions year after year, outdated warfare and the infantry were getting stale.

When the Liberal Party got in during the 1996 elections, my boring stale career changed, we are now deploying all over the world East-Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan, Solomon Islands, Kuwait, soldiers doing what we joined to do, now I think we (the soldier) are in for a our own dry drought and deployment will soon dry up.

The writing is on the wall, and its all in the history; compare what the Liberal PM does with his defense force from 1966 to now and where they have deployed in the world and then compare what the Labor PM does and where the infantry have deployed during that same time.

You can't deny history. I prey for Rudd's sake that he doesn't lower the morale of the infantry.

I am trying to keep an open mind with this new leadership government, I hope they prove me wrong.

The people of Australia have spoken, and thats why I love this country, you never see a soldier waving a sign, or going on strike, or getting on the news to gob off, we just take what ever pineapple come our way and soldier on.