Transcript
I was a signaller, so communications is my bag. They have a saying in Sig school, you fight for comms, and that's probably even more so today compared to 100, 200, 300, 5000 years, signals have always been an important part of communication and control of your fighting elements. So we had a number of different roles, we got rotated to do different things.
So there was some people who would be going out, some people who would be staying more and doing Comms-Send, which is Communications Centre duties. There's always something happening 24/7. And then there'd be other duties, like you have sentry duties, either at the front or on the roof. We had a 50-cal machine gun set up there because as I said we were part of a perimeter so you have to work along with the other parts of the base so if you did come under attack you would be just one strong point of many they'd need to overcome. So there's always duties that were not signals related, but just soldier duties. A lot of it was Comms and stuff.
Sometimes we'd fly around the country, sometimes we'd drive. I also was rotated through what they call a QRF, which is Quick Reaction Force. My predecessors in the previous rotations is a very interesting experiences. People like Jock Wallace who ended up writing a book about his... I've never had anything as dramatic as him, he probably had the most dramatic one. So there was fort vehicle, the bulk of my stuff, although I did do various things, was on radio picket, because there's always somebody on air 24/7 and that it just an absolute must. So a lot that was doing that.
