Running time
1 min 2 sec
Date made
Place made
Australia
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
We were actively patrolling all the time and it was really exciting. As a junior officer, we're doing the thing that we were deployed to do In an environment, probably not dissimilar to our forebears of the recent conflicts in Malaya, Borneo, and Vietnam. It kind of felt similar.
It's in a sort of Southeast Asian area, the sorts of engagements were similar in many ways, without the big ones. There was no sort of battle of Long Tan kind of scenarios but it was dynamic and exciting. Not without its stresses. But it was quite a remarkable time to be around.
