Transcript
A typical day was giving an update to all of the command team on the various intelligence reports that we gathered from our personnel and our contacts, all that we had received from high headquarters or elsewhere, briefing personnel who were going out on operation, or briefing various staff and visitors, and there was quite a lot of those.
So it was a real sort of interpretive process of information from the field, of information from headquarters, and turning that into a language that was usable, and sort of operational for our soldiers going out in a really quite dynamic period and in Timor in 2000 because what had happened after the initial insertion of Interfet into East Timor in September, at the end of 1999.
What happens in Timor in the rainy season, they thought they'd all gone back over to West Timor, most of the militia groups, and then there's a large river that separates the northern part of the border and the river swells and it's difficult to pass but then in the dry season it comes down, it becomes really easy to pass. And so the militia had benefited from several months in various training camps on the other side of the border and then had begun to infiltrate back into East Timor to cause various disruptions, so it was quite a high period of operational tempo for the 6th RAR tour in 2000.
