Thanks.

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

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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

Different perspective on the drones. Can make you wonder....

https://x.com/i/status/1868118969149976579

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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.

Climate change is the bogey man of the 2000's. Bushfires , hot days , cold days , natural disasters and extinction of many species is all blamed on climate change which if we are to believe the politicians they can control. Yes the climate is changing but it is beyond we mere mortals. I cannot believe that we as a race are falling for this B.S. and in closing the bushfires raging in Victoria at present are negating any decreases in carbon.

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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

Mother Nature is going to continue doing her thing, no matter what the Climate Change mob want done. She has been having a bit of a tantrum in recent years with tectonic plates moving, earthquakes and volcanos erupting. All these activities will cause changes to weather patterns, but, according the CC mob, it's all our fault!

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Brian Carney
R43371
Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).

Yep, what you blokes all said!

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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!

As a former bush fire fighter, it always erks me when climate change is attributed to any bush fire (somehow climate change now starts bush fires).

When I used to teach new firefighters we spoke of the fire triangle (heat, oxygen, fuel). You need all three to have a fire, remove one and no more fire (yes there is the fire tetrahedron - chemical chain reaction involving the other three listed).

The one standard is that you have to have a heat source to start a fire (lightning strikes, arcing powerlines, farm machinery, humans with matches or lighters). Humans with matches or lighters remains a biggy. All of the potential ignition sources have nothing to do with climate change.

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

Never let the facts get in the way of a good, albeit BS story.
CC wokes are a bloody menace.

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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.

A bit long but worth watching the truth.

https://youtu.be/WfEUZotRyLI?si=4cDbeT-UZtgHPF3v

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Brian Carney
R43371
Ex-WOMTP5
22nd Mobi Intake
Jan 67 - Jan 89
RANATE, Sydney, Swan, Creswell, Stalwart (FMU), Cerberus, Derwent, Nirimba, Parramatta, Nirimba, FHQ (FMMO).

Very informative and concerning in the destruction, loss of farm land, forests and wild life habitats.
Another major concern is the failure of all this to address the erosion of the power system's base-load, which is what actually keeps the lights on. Battery banks will not be able to do this, nuclear power generation will while also maintaining affordable energy costs.
What is being done now by Bowen & Co will end up destroying this country for many generations to come.

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Ray Lawrence (Boris)
R95904
Ex-POETC3
18th JRTE Rhodes
Dec 1966 - Dec 1986
Leeuwin, Diamantina, Cerberusx4, Harmanx4, Waterhen, Barricade, Lae, Tarangau, Melbourne, Buccaneer, Coonawarrax3, Stuart, Swan, Adroit, Perth, Vampire.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson