Only if there is a quid in it for him! Cast your mind back to Anaconda Nickel, his first company. Anacondas are big snakes, not sure if they shed their skins or not, say no more!!

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Mike (Pony) Moore
O42860
Ex-LT GLEN(ME)
16th MOBI intake
Jan 64 - Jul 88.
Anzac, Nirimba, Stalwart, Moresby, Creswell, Waterhen, Penguin, Vampire, GMGID (PJP), Coonawarra, Attack, Ardent, Cook, Kuttabull, Cerberus.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.

Probably a little off tack. Toots and I attended a dog obedience trial today and the judge commented on her HMAS Sydney T shirt and said that he had served on HMAS Vampire in the 60s.
When I went to take my dog in the ring he made a comment on my HMAS Nirimba polo shirt I was wearing (has the 1957 image of the signwriting on the former airfield fire tender with HMAS Nirimba, the FAA wings, RANAS and Schofields). He wondered why there was the FAA wings as Albatross was the RAN naval air station and Nirimba the apprentice training base - I offered the briefest history of Nirimba and the truck, then went into the ring and managed to fail yet another trial (my Goldie can be such a bitch - tic). He sat down for a quick break (hot day, older former sailor) and he said he was a Communicator on Vampire. I then offered the minor incident in 1972 of being the cause for the attendance of the fire brigade to Vampire when she was in the Graving Dock at Garden Island when the tile heater I had plugged into a Subbies cabin was cause for copious smoke and evacuation of part of the ship (wiring issue of the fitted powerpoint in the cabin). Certainly put the wind up the Shipwright tradesman I was working with, at the time.............

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

What was his name please Brian

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Ray (popeye) Bartlett
R63078
Ex-AB
Morand April 64
64/69 M.D.
Cerberus, Penguin, Sydney, Cerberus, Albatross, Watson,
Vampire, Albatross, Cerberus MD.
I change my opinions often,
but not my way of thinking.

...and he doesn't take any prisoners!

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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
R94714
Ex-CPOMTP(D)5
Jan'65 Leeuwin Intake (10th) - Jan'66 Nirimba Intake (20th)
Jan'65 to Mar '88
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Stalwart, Samarai, Lae, Penguin, Curlew, Buccaneer, Navy Office, Barbette, Cairns, RANTTU (based in Port Moresby), Stirling, Bunbury.

Terry Griffin.

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

Checked, it is not April Fools Day:

"the ADF’s decision to order military dog handlers to undergo cultural awareness training.
It’s been revealed that special forces war dog handlers will be retrained to be more culturally sensitive when confronting enemy fighters".


adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/its-a-disgrace-adf-dog-handlers-to-undergo-cultural-awareness-training/video/3410f920606f6a284fbdd5ed185f39b6?fbclid=IwAR0FZbTCbHQ6r0dCpKpZKUD8kyDyi96stttQ1DQ1BXHVt0NstWAstQTti3c

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond

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Chris O'Keefe
R43136
Ex WO Chippy
19th MOBI Intake
July 65 to July 85
HMAS Nirimba X 4 -Penguin-Sydney-Queenborough - Creswell - Moreton - Stalwart - Platypus - Coonawarra Reconstruction Team 76 - Platypus - Hobart - Cerberus - FHQ - Coonawarra.

Anyone can be ordinary. Shipwrights choose to be extraordinary!

GRIFFIN, Terence Patrick
Service Royal Australian Navy
Service Number R93508
Date of Birth 07 Jan 1946
Place of Birth FOOTSCRAY VIC AUSTRALIA
Rank Tactical Operator
Honours None for display
Unit History
Unit Name Start Date End Date
HMAS Vampire 31 May 1965 22 Jun 1965

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Charlie (Chuckles) Britt JP TPI
Welfare Pensions Officer
R95712
Ex-LME(D) LSMTP2
17th Intake JR's, 23rd MOBI Intake .
Oct 66 - Nov 74
Leeuwin, Nirimba, Cerberus, Stalwart, Cerberus, Waterhen, Penguin, Carpentaria, Dolphin, Penguin, Sydney, Albatross, Leeuwin, Acute, Leeuwin, Cerberus, Stalwart, Waterhen, Attack, Leeuwin, DEE.

Watching local tv news and subject of recruitment was raised , statement was made that defence are going to revolutionise recruiting by sending a bus around to country centres to attract new recruits , current wait times to enlist are to be reduced to under 12 months " apparently current time is 18 - 24 months " and educational requirements are to include an examination rather than accepting the possession of an HSC. No wonder we are stuffed.

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Mark Sullivan
R106204
Ex-CPOETC3
28th MOBI Intake
Jan 70 to Jan 82
Nirimba x 2 , Cerberus , Derwent , Stalwart , Yarra , Platypus , Watson , Vampire

See that former politician Joel Fitzgibbons son was killed in a parachute training accident at Richmond NSW. Sadly, the ultimate cost of training in the military.....

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Brian Mackenzie
ex-Shipwright Instructor
Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond