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Everybody wanted to go. But the way it happened was rather shocking. I remember waking up the morning of September 11 and Laura said, "Look what's on tv. I was sort of bleary-eyed and looked and said, "Oh, wow". It looked just like a movie. And then we went into work, later that day, where we're watching tv again, watching this footage, and we just looked at each other and we thought "Oh, we're going to be busy". And we were. So, pretty much as soon as it happened, Australia committed to the U.S., almost immediately.
The Prime Minister was there in the U.S. at the time, and we are allies. So the commitment was there and we were there, I wasn't there, but the unit made its presence there pretty much right from the start that year. And I was in that first rotation the following year. It was, it's been going on for a long time, but in that first year, it was pretty rough.
