Veteran of the Day

Veteran of the Day - Col Lee

April 09, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MB

Col joined the Navy in 1965 at 16 , went to HMAS Leuwin in Perth for a years training. He then left to go to sea. Col spent a small amount of time on HMAS Sydney before it was used as a troop carrier. He was called to join HMAS Hobartt, they were short crew. He was only 17, and the youngest on board. They were part of the American 7 th fleet and came under their command. They were the first combat unit in the Australian Navy to be sent into action in Vietnam. Most of their time was spent ...

Veteran of the Day Anthony "Harry" Moffitt

March 19, 2021 09:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB

Anthony 'Harry' Moffitt recently retired from the Australian Defence Force after almost thirty years, most of which was spent with Australia's elite Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment as a Team Commander and Team Specialist. He has served in eleven active deployments, including being wounded in action in 2008. Harry completed his time with the SAS as its Human Performance Manager. He's a Registered Psychologist and runs a human performance consultancy, Stotan Group, working with sports te...

Veteran of the Day Casey Nixon

March 08, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MB

Straight out of grade 12 and at age 18, I joined Army as a PTE Soldier. I spent the next 90 days at Kapooka adapting to military life and absolutely loved every minute of it. After my initial training I went to Bandianna VIC for my IET training. From there, I got posted to 1 Combat Signals Regiment at Robertson Barracks, Darwin. I worked in logistics until I discharged in 2017. I was a reservist at 20 STA when I moved back to Brisbane after my discharge but now am an inactive reservist. Sup...

Casey Nixon

March 08, 2021 00:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MB

Straight out of grade 12 and at age 18, I joined Army as a PTE Soldier. I spent the next 90 days at Kapooka adapting to military life and absolutely loved every minute of it. After my initial training I went to Bandianna VIC for my IET training. From there, I got posted to 1 Combat Signals Regiment at Robertson Barracks, Darwin. I worked in logistics until I discharged in 2017. I was a reservist at 20 STA when I moved back to Brisbane after my discharge but now am an inactive reservist. Sup...

Mark "Henry" Lawson

February 20, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MB

Hear from our latest Veteran of the Day, Mark "Henry" Lawson. Steve Price: That you're a military career in a moment. I just want to, on that theme when you're serving in the, uh, in the Australian armed forces, um, how much of that is that you are doing a job for Australia as well as doing something as an individual? Mark: Well, that's a bloody good question. I think it's each, because if you it's the foundation of why you're there, it's the foundation, you know, th that, that spirit of A...

Veteran of the Day Shane Healey

February 11, 2021 21:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MB

Shane enlisted in the Australian Army in 1995. Between 2004 and 2008 he was a private military contractor in Iraq where he initially trained Iraqi Special Operations police who fought in the second battle of Fallujah which I was also involved in as part of the CMATT program. Shane then reenlisted into the Australian Army in 2009 as a member of the Australian Intelligence Corps posted to SOCOMD. He has been deployed twice to Afghanistan (2010/2011 and 2012) as part of Task Force 66 where he...

Veteran of the Day Troy Methorst

November 10, 2020 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MB

Troy Methorst joined the Australian army as an 18 year old and was deployed off shore at the very young age of 19 to East Timor. Troy, thanks for your service. But I guess given your dad was in Vietnam, he didn't have much choice. Well, funny enough, my mum, mom and dad didn't really, I wouldn't say, um, countable made to that, but there was always a lot of, um, T3 in the family and whether that was just in my awareness, I just felt drawn to it from probably from really young age. So I th...

Veteran of the Day Sharon Bown

October 14, 2020 18:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MB

Working in East Timor as a Royal Australian Air Force aeromedical evacuation nurse, Sharon narrowly escaped death when the helicopter in which she was travelling crashed in a violent storm. Suffering a severe spinal injury, a shattered jaw and aviation fuel burns, it was the unseen scarring of chronic pain and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that threatened to reveal the limits of her resilience. Yet the test was far from over. As Sharon faced the brutal consequences of her service and sacrif...

Sharon Bown

October 14, 2020 18:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MB

Working in East Timor as a Royal Australian Air Force aeromedical evacuation nurse, Sharon narrowly escaped death when the helicopter in which she was travelling crashed in a violent storm. Suffering a severe spinal injury, a shattered jaw and aviation fuel burns, it was the unseen scarring of chronic pain and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder that threatened to reveal the limits of her resilience. Yet the test was far from over. As Sharon faced the brutal consequences of her service and sacrif...

Veteran of the Day Brendan Nikolajew

September 19, 2020 23:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

“I joined the Army in 2008 as an RAA Gunner. I was one of 7 Gunners selected as part of a 15 man contingency sent to England in February 2010 to train with the British Airborne Royal Horse Artillery for 7 months and deployed to Helmand Province in Afghanistan in the same year. To be a Gunner and do this job in a war, was an experience very hard to explain sometimes. The men I fought beside and trained with prior to the deployment are brothers by choice and i’ll always have the highest of res...

Veteran of the Day Bert Cox

September 19, 2020 21:00 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MB

DOB 1/6/1924 Service#429451 Born Murwillumbah Enlisted 8/10/1942 Warrant Officer Discharged 2/1/1946 Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate/?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YFPA96HE5Q22A)

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