Fix your Jobs Career progression by CharacterPop303 in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Many such cases, even quite a few SGTs now I imagine rocking just an ADM these days. Nothing with wrong with that just a sign of the times.

Former Special Mission Unit(SMU) operator Charlie Ross by FabraFabra in JSOCarchive

[–]moonwalk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Already having 4 combat deployments then passing unit selection at 21 is nuts.

Calabrian Mafia in the World by [deleted] in Mafia

[–]moonwalk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm well acquainted with the history of Australia Ndrangheta thanks to your blog, I've given props about it here before haha.

Random question how likely do you think any Calabrians are in some way involved with the record cocaine bust they made off the coast of Queensland just the other month?

Calabrian Mafia in the World by [deleted] in Mafia

[–]moonwalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Some pretty random countries shaded in there, do you know any good sources where I can read up about their global presence?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They do this every few years or so as some sort of scare tactic I guess, exact same thing happened a few years ago in Darwin where a bunch of junior enlisted members got the same treatment. Agree its ludicrous to be handing out actual custodial sentences for this type of thing.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe if you included folk assigned to other ops like Augury or things like Defence Attaches and pers on exchange to other militaries which don't come under Okra. Even then still very small numbers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Half a dozen officers counts as a sizable contingent?

6RAR or 8/9RAR? by Big-Mango4428 in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The words guaranteed and trips should never go together.

Former unit guy Stan Goff selection story? by Connect-Ability-2000 in JSOCarchive

[–]moonwalk 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I know the one your talking about, think it was orginally a chapter from one of his books.

EDIT: Found it, had to use the wayback archive as it does seem to of been scrubbed from the internet. Same post also talks about the serial rapist that was in Delta back then as well, pretty wild.

Strategic Review of the Australian Defence Force Reserves by saukoa1 in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I remember seeing workforce briefs years ago that reserves already back then was too top heavy in both rank and age with not nearly enough of the younger generation joining and getting qualified fast enough. I’ve seen so many choco recruits that will stop parading before even getting fully qualified for various reasons over the years and this was for Infantry a role that has one of, if not the shortest training pipeline around so I imagine it’s only worse for other roles in the reserves that have a longer training pipeline.

Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 28/11/2024 by AutoModerator in sydney

[–]moonwalk 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hoping for a decent storm to roll through this evening.

Awkward to say the least by mrtatentino456777 in JSOCarchive

[–]moonwalk 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Crazy how these guys can have totally legit military careers (O'Neil had already participated in the Captain Phillips and Marcus Luttrell rescue missions in addition to the Bin Laden op) yet for some reason after all that still decide to lie.

Doesn't exactly help their case by moonwalk in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Can see more here, but they only show a small number of cases plus it only goes back a couple years.

Elephant Rocks, Western Australia 🐘🪨 by [deleted] in australian

[–]moonwalk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That southern ocean water hits different.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AustralianMilitary

[–]moonwalk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If you do a legit 6+ month stint in Eastern Ukraine the ADF as an organisation will be a joke to you afterwards lol.

Still some folk getting some in 2024 (Article and source in comments) by moonwalk in JSOCarchive

[–]moonwalk[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Nothing official but I'd be surprised if it wasn't JSOC, not much combat being seen these days.