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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 6 Carlton vs GWS
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I mentioned my brother because peacekeepers are the theme of this ANZAC Day.  He also served in the Army and Air Force but was very proud of his UN service and very pleased when it was officially recognised.
I have another associated who is / was involved in forensic accounting, tracking and tracing money laundering / corporate theft by  drug cartels or some foreign governments like North Korea, etc., etc., also counterfeiting of both currency and high priced goods like wine or pharmaceuticals. They also train foreign governments how to do this type of forensic investigation.

On arrival at some foreign destinations, private or commercial travel, they are / were at such risk from cartels they get collected off the tarmac by armoured convoys before the aircraft ever reaches the public terminal / gate.

When this ends, they can't ever receive public recognition for their work because the risk never ends even in retirement. They effectively become captive /  hermits in their own land. I understand why they can't be received publicly, but to me they are not rewarded anywhere near enough for the ongoing risk. Oddly, they never ask for reward, they do what they do out of service to the community.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 7 2024 Pre Game Prognostications Carlton vs Geelong at the MCG
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How do we feel about S Durdin, Lewis and Kemp being in charge of looking after Cameron and Hawkins??  Simple answer, cut off their supply!! Easier said than done. If Weitering is out, our 'next man up' mantra will be tested to the max!!!

Concerned

If those big forwards are off the leash then Curnow may be required back to help out a little more than just the cameo.

Hopefully fingers and toes crossed Weitering gets up.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 6 Carlton vs GWS
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To me it's a bit unfair that Australian's serving in peacekeeping, piracy and policing roles OS aren't recognised equally with those who fight in wars. In some ways a clerk serving in a supply depot in Melbourne during WWII gets more recognition and benefits than a peacekeeper being shot at on a foreign continent.

I've a friend who has a son is currently deployed OS with operational groups, they are as actively involved in diplomacy as they are in other more "risky" duties. Being an officer he has to do both roles and that actually puts him at greater risk, just because we aren't at war at the moment doesn't mean they aren't at risk from rockets, drones, snipers, IEDs, mines, grenades, etc., etc..

On another note, in many ways those involved investigating drugs and organised crime policing are also at huge risk here and abroad.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: Jim Park Voting 2024 AFL Rd 6 Carlton vs GWS
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Seen a video doing the rounds on socials about Jim Park.  Didn't realise he was killed in action during world war 2, after having played128 games.  Served with a team mate Jim askew.

If I remember correctly, Jim Park was one of 99 Australian troops killed in the battle of Wau.  I think that’s where Albo attended the dawn service today.

I was involved in an exercise fighting over very similar terrain in 1972.  The “enemy”, members of the then Pacific Islands Regiment, were occupying Japanese bunkers that were still intact 30 years after they were last used.

The terrain is challenging but even more so when some bastards are shooting at you.

Much respect to Jim Park and the other Aussies who fought by his side at Wau, and at other battlefields in the South Pacific, the Middle East, Türkiye, Greece, Crete, France and the Low Countries, Vietnam, Malaysia and the more recent conflicts and peacekeeping missions in Somalia, Iraq, East Timor and Afghanistan.

And a special shout out to the peacekeepers, including my late brother, Ron, who served with the UNCIVPOL in Cyprus in 1978.