RE: Get paid to come to Australia

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duskobgd in Galenkp's Stuff • 2 years ago

There's a memorial and a headstone with your name on it.

At Rookwood Cemetery near Sydney, there is indeed a tombstone with my last name on it. My fathers uncle went to live in Australia in the sixties, he had a ranch there, and he died before I had a chance to meet him.
He grew fruit and acquired citizenship, he didn't have to go to war 😀

Also, 15 years ago, a good friend of mine, an architect, moved to Australia with her husband, an electrician who got a field job from an electrical distribution company.
nd they are now citizens... without war 🙂
And as far as military service is concerned, I certainly think that it would please young people, to feel a little hard work, discipline, to gain better physical preparation, to learn to respect authority.
I think that 9 to 12 months is perfectly enough. Two years is too long.

2 years ago in Galenkp's Stuff by duskobgd

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galenkp 2 years ago

9-12 months? One doesn't learn much in that time...although the way the youth of today are maybe they can't be away from their video games and Tik Tok for my h longer. Hopefully when they get sent to war it only lasts 9-12 months huh?

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duskobgd 2 years ago

I was in the army for 9 months. Infantry training lasted for three months, during which I learned a lot. it's not as long as the war, but if I were forced to be in the war in some future period (those 10 years in the reserve), I would probably manage...
I spent the next 6 months working in the workshop/armoury. I don't know how many weapons I conserved.

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galenkp 2 years ago

When one joins the ADF here, one joins for 6 years because nine months isn't long enough to learn a category. For instance, one of my friends joined and did basic then spent three years learning her job (cryptologic linguistics) learning another language along the way and will then spend three years doing it. They will ask her to re-up and offer her a chunk of tax free money to do so (about $70,000) before the end of the total six years.

Anyway, other countries do it differently I guess.

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