Yes for B

1st choice is A Second is B

A first please Then B

My vote is D, although I'd learn a lot from C.

a

When I was in the reserves - we used to say "Buckets of Bullets" repetitively to show how we were firing "blanks" :P

@@jamesmorris889 oh yes, I remember that well unfortunately.

Well, I had not many bullets except for the once a year range shoot, but the original radio sets we trained on were leftover Brit gear from the 1950's. The Vietnam war conclusion altered that later, with the retirement to us of recent American powerful radio sets and we were able to use them to greater benefits to comms at task force level.

@@jamesmorris889 (To be yelled). "GUN FIRING, GUN FIRING, GUN FIRING, GUN FIRING, GUN STILL FIRING"

"With a notional magazine of twenty rounds, LOAD."

And thank you mate

We have always been Brother in arms and always will

Thanks legend👍

Thank you guys too.

Thanks mate. Im glad we are allies.

would love to see a norforce video. Interesting that not a lot of people know they even exist!

Lve to see a Norfrce video

Norforce, the Pilbara Regiment in Western Australia, and the 51st Battalion, Far North Queensland Regiment.

Didn't know about this, sounds like an excellent topic for a video! Much respect to any indigenous people helping to defend their country, especially since their traditional ways of life are so different to our modern society.

After a decade of service in the reserves in a Rifle company, the real lesson learned was the poor standing the Reserves had in the eyes of the Regulars and are treated with derision as a joke, the same way they viewed the mIlitia during WWII.

At least we have an ever-increasing number of dedicated documentary streaming services with similarly well produced content (if you believe the sponsorship ads!). A partnership with such a service would be a great sponsorship opportunity for H3 to pursue.

Only old people watch the legacy media these days.

What, do you mean KZfaq is a niche form of Media now?

@@YaMomsOyster people like to pat themselves on the back for finding a documentary like this by decrying the mainstream media

Agree, good see the ADF finally crawling out from under decades of government Defence Budget cutbacks. Now, if we could only somehow get rid of the politicians input into Defence equipment acquisition. Lol, wish I could have my time over again.

Great to see some of the ASLAVS being replaced with the Boxers

Really bad in the eighties eh? That's a bit sad. I suppose the best that can be said is that the world was gaining geopolitical stability with the wall coming down so luckily large deployments were less needed. But it's always bugged me that the pollies put in charge of the Defence portfolio are typically MBAs with no background in defence acquisitions/management. I understand that there must be checks and balances in place, but it seems to me that we should be leaving major decisions regarding the defence of the nation to the experts who dedicated their lives to the task, only reigning them in if spending gets out of hand. If they say we need xxxxxx, we probably do.

In about '78 at an NCO & officers night we were given the tactical problem to defend a hill in open rolling country with an inf pl and a sect of MAW's in support. The en were 1 tk pl and an inf co mounted (BMP's). It was a group task. We reassembled to discuss and the CO was silly enough to kick off by asking me for my solution. "I request 36 posthumous VC's Sir." was my opening gambit. It wasn't the 'proper response' required for tact nor promotion - but caused sustained merriment. But it did gradually gelled in my thoughts 'yeah, I might actually face this dilemma one day'. (There were additional but sadly related issues summarised by 'I'll get serious when the powers to be get serious - I'm outa here).

@@graemesydney38 Perfect comeback at the time,hell I joined at 17 in 86 got to 6 RAR and wondered why the SLR I was issued had the triangular front stock the armourer told me it had probably seen service in Vietnam section weapons were re rifled Bren guns And I'm not if this is true but the boys in 1 and 2/4 RAR in Townsville were still using Owen guns aswell

Oh mate, you were there during the worst possible time for the army, the Defence of Australia era.

Australia should still have national service but for the part time reserve force. It would bring a significant increase numbers to our army at a reasonable cost. Australia could have 60.000 regular army force. And 250.000 part time reserve force. Sweden has something similar to that. And their GDP is much smaller than ours is. Why can they afford it. But they say we can't? (Australia?)

@@hypohystericalhistory8133 My dad was too

@@hypohystericalhistory8133 yep... getting kicked around by politicians for 21 years. And my reward? The "pension for life" I got for 20+ years service was taken away from me by those same politicians on a technicality when I got divorced and my ex died. Maybe a major reason why I'm now diagnosed with major, chronic and treatment resistant depression. Oh well could be worse I guess

@@nathan-ck3je My experience with reservists, when I served, was that you can break them into 2 major "types". 1, The incredibly devoted and driven person who spend most of the year at a "regular" job, and are still motivated to sign up to serve the nation during their own time. These are the true "ANZAC" types you want and need. 2, The opportunist arsehats who heard that reserve pay was tax free, and the Cadre staff struggle to get to attend the bare minimum of parades. (called "WOFTAM" or Waste Of Freaking Time And Money) I believe there are far far more of the former, the latter only come to be prolific during my service time due to government programs aimed at somehow maintaining military personnel numbers at minimal wages cost, and damn the consequences. Compulsory National Service, in a time where there is no national threat to require conscription, would kill any chance of properly vetting applicants, to ensure you get those who want to serve (as I believe is now happening). Forced service in the military will only breed resentful and poorly motivated personnel. Esp in the age of comfort, and dare I say, "entitlement" that we currently enjoy. Much better to have a well equipped and maintained core of dedicated full time people, as a nucleus, surrounded by similarly minded , trained and equipped volunteer reservists that can be expanded upon quickly than a mess of disgruntled conscripts making trouble, let them add to the defense budget via taxes. And no, rehabilitation of criminals, drug addicts and the alleged "dole bludger"under the guise of National Service is not the role of the military, it doesn't do anything for effectiveness or morale, it just distracts from the effective prosecution of the military's role. It does let the politician make lots of noise, and a whole bunch of boomers (yeah, my age) say things like "It'll do 'em good!" "teach them some respect" etc etc etc

I was pretty pleased when this channel popped up in my Recommended too. :)

@@sixstringedthing he’s got a tiktok @hypohystericalhistory

I'll let you know not as happy as we are to have you guys as allies

Like wise mate, always felt good knowing the "yanks" were with us.

@@Mark-bb2vr Let's take England!

we aren't 'allies' (that suggests we have our own choices) we are your vassal ? we go to all your wars that have nothing to do with us

You forgot FRED's...

Mag 58 m2 .50

@@richardbranford2661 lol FRED’s...one of the best pieces of kit you could get your hands on.

@KISHANTH JEYAMOORTHY Field Ration Eating Device.... F.R.E.D. Basically your best mate at dinner time. The new Combat Rations are a far cry from the "old man in a tin" we used to get...

@KISHANTH JEYAMOORTHY ...or F..king Ridiculous Eating Device. 😉

Started watching your epic 2nd Punic war video, and your finesse is starting to make sense. Compared to that colossal undertaking, this must have seemed like a stroll in the park.

Nah he's a prick mate, never happy! Looks like its basically over anyway. Should be resubmitted in the next week or so.

We did a good job but we didn't do it alone, the Allies saved us no doubt.

Small nitpick but it's "ANZACs" not "Anzaks"

Same, m113 driver 😁 ops supp sqn, a sqn, make your mind up guys 😂

Give me the sler any day of the week,simple easy to use and when you get hit by a 7.62 its a good chance you don't get up

I can still remember finding two bren gun mags after a contact with a few guys from 10 IRC

@@stevecast5410 I'm not sure the 7.62 is that much better than the Steyr ammo (although you are correct regarding the US 5.56 M-16). The Steyr is also simple to use and has far superior ergonomic design and better sights. For a short-arse like me, a long rifle makes accuracy difficult because so much weight is held away from the body. The Steyr's weight is mostly towards the rear, which means the weapon is more stable. I'd much prefer the weapon that allows me to hit my target with my first shot.

This channel loves you my friend

We have never had the depth to win a war without assistance and with our GDP, population and land mass to cover, we never will. Hence why we are always besties friends with the western empire of the day.

@@WorksOnMyComputer I'll back us pound for pound we are up there with the best of them including our big brother from the U.S

You might want to check out his existing work. I think you'll find he has got it covered.

Yep, seen the potential of the first battle deployed tank in WW1. Great battle strategist.

Nah, that was actually an Egyptian kangaroo, from a nearby zoo.

@@jacktville literally loled.

That's an Aussie SF member.

Thank you sir john.

the enemy is not required to invade Australia these days. They invade via a mass immigration programme.

Hey don't leave home without one you would be supersized what a Nepalese Gurkha can do with one.

@@alanbstard4 Fuck off fascist.

@@misterscienceguy STFU Captain Dickcheese

@@misterscienceguy "fascism is when you criticize mass immigration"

This was a lot of work my friend!

arresting whistle blowers is the best way to hold war criminals accountable /s

Far better to have the emus as allies.

Haha I'm not sure we want to lose again

used to be. not anymore

Australian Army is regarded as the best small army in the world.

@@apothecarymaybe3402 Alongside Poland, yes

Hmmmm I'm sure there'd be one or more guys from the opposition who thought the same thing,until they tried to test that theory,and well found out it wasn't the case from The Boer War to those in Afghanistan,proved the theory not the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog

It is underrated. No offence. Not enough men or equipment. For a country that has one of the highest GDP and 12th richest nation in the world. It really is pathetic the size Australia military actually is and so ill equipped compared to many

Thats really cool, thanks for your service :)

Is that the older DPCU uniform? I could have sworn with the newer variants you wore the rank badge on the chest

With the heavy barrelled AR 30 rnd mag boy had fun with one of those during basic

@@stevecast5410 Yep give me 7.62 anyway I don't care how heavy it was , you could punch through two house bricks all day long :) happy days no hiding from the monster with that.

I don't really think that the CCP is planning on attacking Australia, because why would they risk precipitating a world wide economic depression and a Third World War to take over an important trading partner as well as a country that the Chinese already have a huge amount of money and investments and assets in? A country that is doing much better than it has done for centuries (like China for example) isn't likely to risk it's achievements to go off on avoidable military adventures.

Standard crack at the ABC by anyone that professes to have an interest of the ADF.

@@robd8577 It's an entirely valid critique of an organisation that only examins issues from an afactual narrative based perspective, shallowly devoid of fact.

@Kcid Deah 98 IQ detected.

@@advancingaustralia2913 entirely valid critique according to the person that made it 🤣🤣 The ABC is subjectively a reasonably objective news service that isn't influenced by commercial pressures. Complaints from all sides of politics suggests the balance is pretty right. I'll take my news not delivered by Murdoch.

@@robd8577 enjoy wearing ideological blinkers.

It looks likely they are buying 4 more

Same, I did 77 - 99. I think when I joined the ARA were 32000 when I left about 20000 Just hope not all the new roles are for diversity and inclusion positions..

1800km"s where did you hear that? It will be updated eventually to 800km range however the amount of propellant needed for 1800km would mean it would unlikely fit into a Himars configuration.

@johnny rocket look up the precision strike missle. Now that the US has walked away from the intermediate range treaty they intend to bolster missle range in the 500 - 5000 km range. They believe they can increase the range of the PSM to 1800 km plus

@@stevebell7288, the Lockheed Martin website only states up to 500km. www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/precision-strike-missile.html

nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/new-adventures-army%E2%80%99s-precision-strike-missile-185225

@@hgf334 You would take any published figure with a large gain of salt - either way.