Running time
45 sec
Date made
Copyright
Department of Veterans' Affairs
Transcript
In '99, that's when I made approaches and I tried to line up my work to match... I knew I was going to join as a Reservist. But at that stage, the training for reservists and full-timers were exactly the same which I really support. I think it's a really great idea.
So, I went in '99 and that was as a result of a reaction I suppose to what was happening in East Timor, which I thought, well it was quite widely accepted that the defence force was really undermanned, under-resourced, and it was an important job to do, in East Timor, so that's why I signed up.
