Puckapunyal
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Sep 24, 2026
Sarah JeffersonHOST
In junior events, all five operated with 467 youth being guided by 102 people.
Sarah JeffersonHOST
The smallest events on the 19th of September were Waterloo Plains with five, Puckapunyal with seven and Sunrise Beach with eight.
Sarah JeffersonHOST
And the largest events were Macquarie University with 797, the Ponds with 803 and Albert Melbourne with 927.
Sarah JeffersonHOST
And we
Philip ClarkHOST
Question 17.
Philip ClarkHOST
Quote, Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal.
Philip ClarkHOST
Is the opening line of which song?
speaker_12AUDIENCE
I was only 19, or to give it its proper title, a war in light green.
Jess CollinsGUEST
Now, about 20, 25 years ago, that was signed over to the Department of Defence.
Jess CollinsGUEST
They moved everybody out down to Puckapunyal.
Jess CollinsGUEST
Now, that place has effectively gone to waste.
Jess CollinsGUEST
There's a huge amount of accommodation there, the huge parade ground.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
Nice to be here.
John HardgraveHOST
Yeah, all the way from sunny Puckapunyal.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
Yeah, it's nice to be back in Brisbane for once, just to see some civilization.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
It's great.
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Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
That's about two weeks of kind of alternating between those two modalities.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
You end up doing like a very simple strike at the end of it.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
And then I just came up from Pucca where we're developing the employer Taktron FPV course, which is a four-week course that graduates an advanced Taktron FPV pilot.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
That's really focused on using repeaters.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
Nice to be here.
John HardgraveHOST
Yeah, all the way from sunny Puckapunyal.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
Yeah, it's nice to be back in Brisbane for once, just to see some civilization.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
It's great.
12 MINS LATER
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
That's about two weeks of kind of alternating between those two modalities.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
You end up doing like a very simple strike at the end of it.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
And then I just came up from Pucca where we're developing the employer Taktron FPV course, which is a four-week course that graduates an advanced Taktron FPV pilot.
Andrew Dunn-LobinGUEST
That's really focused on using repeaters.
Adam BlumHOST
You come together and so you march out of Kapooka and where do you go for your initial employment training? Where's that? For artillery? So normally it's
Matt NicholsonGUEST
down at the School of Artillery in Puckapunyal.
Matt NicholsonGUEST
The course is only run there... like at particular times a year and that's a six week to get qualified as a gunner it's a six week block of training or continuous block of training but obviously it's in the unit's interest to get diggers at least trained on the gun because you're already trained as a soldier so and on basic comms with the radios at kapuka so it's a priority for you to get qualified on the gun So I actually did my gun course in-house out on the bush exercise.
Matt NicholsonGUEST
So I was in the bush for a couple of weeks, and I did my gun course in-house.
JulianHOST
And
Brad BelsheimGUEST
Puckapunyal's
IanHOST
not.
Brad BelsheimGUEST
That's in Canberra, right? No, that's not in Canberra.
Brad BelsheimGUEST
Well,
Dave GoldfinchHOST
you've got us three in Melbourne.
Dave GoldfinchHOST
So then on our way to Canberra, we stop at Puckapunyal Tank Museum and go into the Army Museum there.
IanHOST
Yep.
David GalliganGUEST
I
David RoweHOST
did school cadets at Puckapunyal, so there you go.
David GalliganGUEST
It was a lovely place, actually, for a few weeks.
David GalliganGUEST
I did enjoy it.