Transcript
Before I was deployed, I got prepared. So I brought all these bartering items, I knew that I would be bartering over there, and one of the things I brought over was a slouch hat, brand new. I just went to the store, brand new, all fitted out. And I swapped that out for a set of Cortex jacket and trousers. That was my trade which worked out really well actually. Their wet weather gear, it was nice. We relied heavily on them for things like aircraft, so their gear was generally better but ours was pretty good to.
But little things like, I wanted to get an entrenching tool that can fold up, because I know that in a previous, one of my colleagues, I mentioned his name before, Jock Wallace, he was called out in the QRF response and they'd landed, and they found themselves basically in an ambush. And they had people using their hands and their bayonets to dig into... they were in a bad fight. And I thought, "Oh no. I'm not going to get stuck in that thing." So, I carried around an entrenching tool, so if I did have to, I'd have to use something better than a knife in my hands to get underground.
