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Gnomeranger
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 Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:04 am |
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City or Town: Black Head
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I'm baaaack, until next time. 
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Greg Eade
R43098
Ex-CPOMTH4
19th MOBI Intake
July 65-July 85
Nirimba, Sydney, Perth, Stalwart, Harman(Navy Office), Melbourne, Harman, Torrens, Nirimba, Harman.
Life is so much funnier when you have a dirty mind...
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Seejay
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 9:27 am |
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Good to see you made it okay Greg. Enjoyable trip, I gather?  _________________  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!
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2024 11:07 am |
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 back, Greg...  _________________  Rick Pengilly WEBMASTER Ex-CPOMTH3 R42630 13th MOBI Intake July'62 to July'74 HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Melbourne - HMAS Cerberus - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Lonsdale - HMAS Tarangau - HMAS Nirimba - HMAS Brisbane
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Gnomeranger
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 8:43 am |
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Seejay wrote: Good to see you made it okay Greg. Enjoyable trip, I gather? Great trip CJ except for Bali, never had any inclination to go there, but it was the first port on this cruise, filthy crappy place unless you are in a resort apparently.
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Greg Eade
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Ex-CPOMTH4
19th MOBI Intake
July 65-July 85
Nirimba, Sydney, Perth, Stalwart, Harman(Navy Office), Melbourne, Harman, Torrens, Nirimba, Harman.
Life is so much funnier when you have a dirty mind...
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Graeme Rhodes
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2024 10:29 am |
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Gnomeranger wrote: Seejay wrote: Good to see you made it okay Greg. Enjoyable trip, I gather? Great trip CJ except for Bali, never had any inclination to go there, but it was the first port on this cruise, filthy crappy place unless you are in a resort apparently. I wholeheartedly disagree with your comment about Bali Greg. You must have missed the memo about a 3rd world country. We found the people to be so friendly and giving. Bali is no different from the 'slum' areas in Australia.
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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
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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.
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Seejay
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2024 10:12 pm |
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Graeme Rhodes wrote: Gnomeranger wrote: Seejay wrote: Good to see you made it okay Greg. Enjoyable trip, I gather? Great trip CJ except for Bali, never had any inclination to go there, but it was the first port on this cruise, filthy crappy place unless you are in a resort apparently. I wholeheartedly disagree with your comment about Bali Greg. You must have missed the memo about a 3rd world country. We found the people to be so friendly and giving. Bali is no different from the 'slum' areas in Australia. I must admit I've never had any wish to see Bali either. It's never been on my radar, and dropped way down the list after my last stint in Darwin 92-97. The number of medevacs coming into Darwin from Bali was astounding, and as my wife was nursing in the ICU I got the full description of what had happened to the evacuees. The mishandling of them was absolutely dreadful with many of them in the latter stages of sepsis. Not for me, for sure. Then of course were the bombings.. _________________ 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!
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Graeme Rhodes
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2024 10:43 am |
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It is not exactly a tropical paradise for sure and like you Chris it was never on my to-do-list.
My daughter and her partner convinced us to go and have a look and we were not sorry we did. There are areas and places you definitely don't go to (just like here in Oz).
I wouldn't want to live there but to visit was just fine.
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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
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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.
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BC
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2024 12:15 pm |
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City or Town: Tinonee
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The locals were saying the same about you Smiley - "we don't mind him visiting, but not staying full time"!!!   _________________ Brian Carney
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Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).
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Graeme Rhodes
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2024 10:41 am |
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BC wrote: The locals were saying the same about you Smiley - "we don't mind him visiting, but not staying full time"!!! Cruel BC, very cruel! 
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Graeme 'Smiley' Rhodes
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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.
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Seejay
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Posted: Sun Oct 06, 2024 8:42 pm |
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Graeme Rhodes wrote: BC wrote: The locals were saying the same about you Smiley - "we don't mind him visiting, but not staying full time"!!! Cruel BC, very cruel! BC, there were rumours about a petition being raised in West Oz about getting Smiley exiled to some beach near Coffs Harbour..........  As to Bali, I guess it's each to their own, and I keep in mind that many of our Navy brethren have taken up residence in Thailand. Also not for me (I can't eat fish or shellfish or chili any more), but the people are just beautiful. I was going to make a very pertinent point about all this but I took too long and I forgot what it was.....  _________________ 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!
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