{"id":50927,"date":"2020-10-07T12:53:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=50927"},"modified":"2020-10-07T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T12:53:01","slug":"life-in-the-australian-army-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/life-in-the-australian-army-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Australian Army &#8211; By Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Life in the Australian Army &#8211; By Des Kelly<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50928 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/military-army.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Hi folks, this hilarious little account of\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Life in the Army was sent to me by one of my friends, who also thrives on good comedic material. Arthur Speldewinde, needs no introduction at all, especially to us Burgher buggers from Ceylon then, Sri Lanka, now. I had to share this true story with thousands of eLanka members and readers, all over the World.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">This is, as I often say, on FB. etcerera,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Especially for you&#8221;. Please read it and have a bit of a chuckle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Desmond-Kelly-9.jpg\" alt=\"Desmond Kelly\" width=\"125\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Desmond Kelly.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u00a0(Editor-in-Chief)\u00a0 eLanka.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Life in the\u00a0 Australian Army..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Text of a letter from a kid from Romagna to Mum and Dad. (For Those\u00a0 of you not in the know, Romagna is a\u00a0 small town, west\u00a0 of Quilpie in the far south west of Queensland )\u00a0<span class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxm-7232547540289312207apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50929 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/army_girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Dear Mum &amp; Dad,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I\u00a0 am well. Hope youse are too. Tell me big\u00a0 brothers Doug and Phil that the Army is better\u00a0 than workin&#8217; on the station &#8211; tell them to get\u00a0 in bloody quick smart before the jobs are all\u00a0 gone! I wuz a bit slow in settling down at\u00a0 first, because ya don&#8217;t hafta get outta bed\u00a0 until 6am. But I like sleeping in now, cuz all\u00a0 ya gotta do before brekky is make ya bed and\u00a0 shine ya boots and clean ya uniform. No bloody\u00a0 horses to get in, no calves to feed, no troughs\u00a0 to clean &#8211; nothin&#8217;!! Ya haz gotta shower though,\u00a0 but it\u2019s not so bad, coz there&#8217;s lotsa hot water\u00a0 and even a light to see what ya doing!\u00a0<span class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxm-7232547540289312207apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">At brekky ya get cereal, fruit and eggs\u00a0 but there&#8217;s no kangaroo steaks or goanna stew\u00a0 like wot Mum makes. You don&#8217;t get fed again\u00a0 until noon and by that time all the city boys\u00a0 are buggered because we&#8217;ve been on a &#8216;route\u00a0 march&#8217; &#8211; geez its only just like walking to the\u00a0 windmill in the bullock paddock!!<span class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxm-7232547540289312207apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">This one will kill me brothers Doug and Phil with\u00a0 laughter. I keep getting medals for shootin&#8217; &#8211;\u00a0 dunno why. The bullseye is as big as a bloody\u00a0 dingo&#8217;s arse and it don&#8217;t move and it&#8217;s not\u00a0 firing back at ya like the Johnsons did when our\u00a0 big scrubber bull got into their prize cows\u00a0 before the Ekka last year! All ya gotta do is\u00a0 make yourself comfortable and hit the target &#8211;\u00a0 it&#8217;s a piece of piss!! You don&#8217;t even load your\u00a0 own cartridges, they comes in little boxes, and\u00a0 ya don&#8217;t have to steady yourself against the\u00a0 rollbar of the roo shooting truck when you\u00a0 reload!<span class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxm-7232547540289312207apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Sometimes ya\u00a0<span class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxm-7232547540289312207apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>gotta\u00a0 wrestle with the city boys and I gotta be real\u00a0 careful coz they break easy &#8211; it&#8217;s not like\u00a0 fighting with Doug and Phil and Jack and Boori\u00a0 and Steve and Muzza all at once like we do at\u00a0 home after the muster.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Turns out I&#8217;m not a\u00a0 bad boxer either and it looks like I&#8217;m the best\u00a0 the platoon&#8217;s got, and I&#8217;ve only been beaten by\u00a0 this one bloke from the Engineers &#8211; he&#8217;s 6 foot\u00a0 5 and 15 stone and three pick handles across the\u00a0 shoulders and as ya know I&#8217;m only 5 foot 7 and\u00a0 eight stone wringin&#8217; wet, but I fought him till the other blokes carried me off to the boozer.\u00a0<span class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxm-7232547540289312207apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I can&#8217;t complain about the Army &#8211; tell\u00a0 the boys to get in quick before word gets around\u00a0 how bloody good it is.<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1335230293846224680m899799684551613060xxxmsonormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Your loving\u00a0 daughter,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Susan<u><\/u><u><\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5123580823957590\" data-ad-slot=\"7875984934\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in the Australian Army &#8211; By Des Kelly Hi folks, this hilarious little account of\u00a0 Life in the Army was sent to me by one of my friends, who also thrives on good comedic material. 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