Jose Garcia - The Melbourne University Regiment

Running time
59 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs

Transcript

I was at a place called Melbourne University Regiment. They were, they produced a lot of officers for World War I, World War II. They just cranked them out basically. But, when I was in there, it was recently in the 80s it was with SLRs and greens, Vietnam-era stuff. Our trainers were Vietnam vets. It was good training, it was a good unit.

I saw a friend I knew from ages ago. He was in a tram, in uniform. I was studying at the time to be a teacher, which is another story, and I said, "Oh". Caught up with him. I said, "Where did you go, what are you doing?", and he told me what he's up to, and I said, "Oh that sounds interesting". So I joined up. I was in scouts with this fellow. So I signed up and I was with him for probably about three, four years. It was really good. Yeah.

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