#103 - PAST OUTDOORS

Yeah.

So obviously it's a big change for you going from, I guess, military into civilian life.

But there's some parallels and there's some similarities.

There's some parallels, yeah.

Do you miss it?

Oh, that's the question you get asked all the time.

And it's hard to reconcile that.

I miss what I used to do, but what I used to do isn't there anymore because the defense and the military have sort of changed.

Like I was pretty much in the renaissance period for our military.

Like, you know, nothing going on.

9-11 happened when I, you know, pretty fresh into the army, like as a young 21 year old over in East Timor, 9-11 happened, and then it was just on, game on.

So I lived that for the next sort of 16, 17 years of just...

Action.

Action, yeah.

And that action sort of wound down when, The government sort of lost their appetite for action.

Still doing a lot in the defence space.

Don't get me wrong.

But it's changed, right? What's happening now is phenomenal, but it's changed.

I like the old, you know, the action.

Getting amongst it.

Getting amongst it, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I missed.

And that wasn't really happening there.

So I miss the boys, but I still keep... you know that network never goes away like every every day there is someone from my unit in the store oh really yeah every day that's cool there's someone coming in to visit say g'day new guys that are coming in just coming in to say g'day or get stuff because the lads at work have said go down and see dave he'll sort you out so that's super cool yeah so it wouldn't be a day goes by without military guys hanging out in the store so it's good you keep in touch get a little taste yeah you know and i keep in touch with my old regiment and head out there every now and again so yeah you never lose it it's a family it's like getting rid of your family like you can't yeah you know you can't get rid of them

yeah it's hard yeah yeah yeah and especially after a period of time like yeah yeah 20 years