Aussies and yanks in Vietnam.

[rgmwa]

23 hours ago, onetrack said:

Re the Australian SAS and the American soldiers in Vietnam, this documentary (link below) is quite good, and pretty accurate.

 

A lot of the war and military scenes are irrelevant, repetitive and often unrelated - but the narration is accurate.

 

 

That was interesting. At the end of the video they make the point that as effective as they Australian’s methods were in the field, they resulted in high levels of PTSD and long term difficulties adjusting to civilian life after the war. 

[onetrack]

It was well known amongst "ordinary" Australian soldiers, that the SAS were called "super-grunts", and they considered all other ordinary soldiers, as far below them in skills.

 

Just the psychological effects of SAS training were severe, and huge numbers of SAS applicants fell out of the SAS courses, because they failed to make the grade. Their training is brutal. 

[Siso]

The reason we are getting free electricity is because of grid mismanagement. Nothing is free. Are intermittents cheaper. As I have said before nobody anywhere in the world has attempted what Australia is trying to do. Germany has lost a lot of industry and they are interconnected to other country's that have reliable generation weather that be nuclear, gas or massive amounts of traditional hydro. Australia only has 8% traditional hydro. CSIRO won't release the data used for their modeling. Pretty sure the titanic would have had modeling. Parasitic intermittent generation are very cheap when they are running, but make other forms very expensive when they aren't by cutting back on available generation for the dispatchable generation. If you underutilise plant you make it very expensive.

 

The ABC get it wrong and mislead more then they should for a national broadcaster. It is expected by the others as they are owned by people with agendas.