Michael Apperley - The handover on arrival

Running time
1 min 5 sec
Date made
Place made
Australia
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs

Transcript

By the time I'd got there, there was the last probably, maybe dozen people remained behind, just to do a bit of a handover. And then they left pretty much at the end of the following week. I think it was less than that actually, it was probably about three or four days later. I think they were ready to go, they just wanted to get out of there.

My role that I was allocated was the quartermaster. So based on my, you know, relevant experience, that was the job that I was given. So I was the ASC2 quartermaster. And my role was just to make sure that you know, all the equipment and, you know, we were able to sustain ourselves and ensure that we had enough, you know, access to the UN supply system so that we could, you know, function inside of the environment … we had the cut down carbine, they used to call it the carbine Steyr rifle because we were in and out of vehicles all the time, so the longer barrel Steyr was not suitable. So our weapon, main weapon was the Steyr.

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