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Reality Check
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:02 pm
by 6maniac
While we all whinge about our lot in life ....
An Australian SAS soldier died this week ...
http://www.army.gov.au/Our-work/News-an ... ne-Diddams
R.I.P.
Lest We Forget
Re: Reality Check
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:33 pm
by Maddog
R I P Digger...
Wonder if the politicians will shed any tears like they did for the boat people the other day....doubt it.
Re: Reality Check
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:47 pm
by Stuzrx
A true Australian... A true Hero...A true Soldiers soldier. RIP.
And NO.....The politicians will not cry for him....Or his Family.....And that my friends is a true Tragedy.
Re: Reality Check
Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:48 pm
by oldman
An Australian Soldier, the best of the best, rest in peace.
Re: Reality Check
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:16 am
by Jonno
RIP
Re: Reality Check
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:32 pm
by born green
oldman wrote:An Australian Soldier, the best of the best, rest in peace.
They say they are the best of the best... if u ever saw that doco on the SAS karta they do.... mind blowing what they go thru... they give up a hell of a lot, and most have wives and kids to boot.....
RIP...
Re: Reality Check
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:28 pm
by philbo
think this covers it
http://news.defence.gov.au/2012/07/04/c ... mcphedran/
Department of Defence
on the record
Defence
on the record
4 July 2012
Chief of Army – Letter to the Editor in relation to an article by Ian McPhedran
To the Editor,
It was with the greatest disappointment and dismay that I read Ian McPhedran’s article in your newspaper this morning, releasing the name of our most recent combat fatality before official release by Defence and by his family. The Army and the Defence Force have well established protocols for the release of names and personal details in these circumstances; protocols with which your journalists are very familiar but have clearly chosen to ignore.
The family in this instance, whose lives are currently consumed with their own grief, had asked Army to wait to release his details so that they could deal with this terrible loss in their way. You have robbed them of this right. Such actions are unconscionable and un-Australian. Our only concern is a desire to look after those of the grieving family of a courageous soldier. Their trust has been betrayed by the selfish act of a journalist intent on being ‘the first’.
D.L Morrison
LTGEN
Chief of Army
04 July 2012
R.I.P.