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Graeme Rhodes
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City or Town: Waikiki
State: WA
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Is this basically a case of same shit, different day?
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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.
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Hippy Chippy
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 12:34 am |
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City or Town: Lake Munmorah
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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
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Seejay
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Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2025 7:54 am |
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City or Town: Cairns
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Graeme Rhodes wrote: Is this basically a case of same shit, different day? Pretty much, Smiley.  But the figures being bandied around the waterfront here in Cairns are astronomical.  _________________  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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Stroppy Chippie
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 12:03 am |
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City or Town: Schofields
State: NSW
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Number one son was made up to Warrant Officer today. He offered the point that he started as a GD but it must be said that he started out as a Nirimba GD, re upping in 92 to start the journey as an ETS.
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Brian Mackenzie
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Oct '88 to Dec '93 (NIRIMBA) before and beyond
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Chippy Ned
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 6:56 am |
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City or Town: St Georges Basin
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Congrats to your boy Brian, I reckon WO is the best rank in the Navy. 
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John Kelly (WEBMASTER)
R42620
Ex-WOMTH
13th MOBI Intake
July'62 to July'83
Nirimba x3 - Rushcutter - Sydney x2 (Carrier) - Melbourne (Carrier) - Penguin - Kuttabul - Creswell x3 - Stalwart x2 - Brisbane.
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Seejay
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:00 am |
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City or Town: Cairns
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Chippy Ned wrote: Congrats to your boy Brian, I reckon WO is the best rank in the Navy. I'll second that on both points! BZ! _________________ 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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BC
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 7:10 am |
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City or Town: Tinonee
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Ditto above comments. _________________ 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).
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Graeme Rhodes
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 10:43 am |
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City or Town: Waikiki
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BZ that man!
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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.
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Ray Lawrence
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Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2025 8:25 pm |
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City or Town: Lynbrook
State: Victoria
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Well done to your son Brian, it's great to see the young ones succeed in their lives.
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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
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Pony
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2025 8:11 am |
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City or Town: Warragul
State: Victoria
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Well done to your son Brian! 
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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.
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