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We probably, once a week we'd get the four-wheel drive turn up with a satellite phone and we could talk on that. So yeah, that's about it. As far as communications back home … I encouraged my soldiers to write letters, etc. Ideally, though, the mail system wasn't that good and we were in an outreach area away from Balibo.
I mean, Balibo, saying that was probably ten or 15k's away. So mail was sort of hit and miss to get. Our logistic supply wasn't that great. So we would constantly bust the antennas on the armoured vehicles because you'd hit trees and things and, yeah, we were running out of them pretty quick, so we sort of had to try and beg, borrow and steal and get them flown over as much as we can. But yeah, so logistics wise, the mail wasn't as frequent as other deployments.
