When I did my two R&R’s to Sydney I was single and therefore unfettered.
That started a lifelong love affair for Oz and the Aussies.
Had the good fortune to have had business there ever since I got out and can count some of them as among my best friends in life.
We’re planning on going there next year.
Oh, I LOVED Australia. We stopped in Perth/Freemantle on the way back from Somalia in ‘94.
Five days of awesomeness.
I got hit a week before I was due to take R&R in Aussie land and sent home. Was really bummed, had been assigned to guard an Aussie hospital in Bien Hoa during Tet and got the Aussie bug. Their nurses were fabulous.