[Dundee]

Half of my time in the Australian Navy I was working directly under or with USN and USMC personnel. All excellent people and very professional.

A Commander from Texas introduced me to genuine Texas BBQ and subsequently ruined all other forms of BBQ for me ever since.

At a house warming party for a Master Sergeant I killed a funnelweb spider to his family's unending gratitude.

Swapping initial officer training school stories with a Lieutenant from Mississippi during a long and boring ASW exercise.

Sharing the rage with a Commander from Virginia as we watched 9/11 happen.

I fear for the lives of the soldiers, sailors, and airmen of both Australia and the US in what is likely to happen soon re: China. But there is some comfort that would go yet again into battle with family at their side.

[TokarevM57]

....back in the day, when I was much younger and a few pounds lighter, I would have gone waltzing Matilda any day with our Aussie allies....today..? I think the Aussies would still be formidable as foes, but the U.S.Navy is today too obsessed with using proper pronouns and trying to achieve gender equity....

[PROCON]

Bump, thanks for your service to Australia and thank you for being a faithful ally to America!

[sasquatch]

There’s a restaurant in Castroville, CA called the “Central Texan”. Best BBQ in the area by far.

[Gay State Conservative]

The biggest mistake...by far...that the world's prosperous,stable,decent nations (US,Canada,Australia,Britain,Japan,etc) have made over the last 50+ years is opening their ports to Chinese made goods about 40 years ago. China has a billion plus people willing to work 14 hours a day,6 days a week for $1.05 and hour in order to survive. Ten years from now the Eastern Hemisphere will look much,much,*much* different than it does today.

If the people of Taiwan,Hong Kong,Japan and South Korea were smart they'd be soiling their kickers right now.

And if Aussies were smart they'd be very,very concerned right now.

Just my 2 cents' worth...