Talk:Ingleburn Army Camp/@comment-101.163.92.204-20140531100708

I joined the Regular army in 1967 then later went through the Australian Army School of Signals based at Ingleburn in 1968, it was co-located with 1 Signal Regiment, the main School of Signals was based at Balcombe on Mornington Peninsular just out of Melbourne which we returned to after our initial training at Marconi School of Wireless at Easthills where we travelled to each and every morning for 6 months. Later in 1968 after completing my training at Balcombe in Victoria I was posted to Radio Relay troop at 1 Signal Regiment and we seemed to continually train for our deployment to Vietnam which in my case occurred in September 1969. It is my understanding that 1 Signal Regiment had been in Ingleburn for a good many years prior to my arrival in 1968. Incidentally 1 Signal Regiment gained the Freedom of the City from Campbelltown City Council in 1968 or 1969,(it was not 1964 as previously stated because it was no more than one year prior to me going to Vietnam in September 1969, I was on the parade and the numerous practice parades prior to the big day, several of us had a beer at the RSL after the parade). On the big day when we marched down the main street to be awarded the Freedom of the City from the mayor, it was soon after the freedom Of The City Parade when many people demonstrated against us in a nasty way because of our involvement in Vietnam. I did not attend any civil parades after I returned from Vietnam including the Welcome Home Parade which I and many others still believe to this day was only a political parade to give the Labor Party a warm feeling and some recognition for their lies on bringing us back home in 1972, when in fact it was the outgoing Liberal Government that started the pull out of all Australians from South Vietnam and not Prime Minister Whitlam and Deputy Jim Cairns the communist that went to North Vietnam in protest of us Australians fighting in the war, like Jane Fonda he was photographed standing beside large guns preparing to shoot at us in the South. That is one of the reasons I have no faith in the Labor Party, incidentally Julia Gillard was in the same federal seat that Jim Cairns stood, in her university days she admired Jim Cairns and as much as she denied the fact she was a student member of the Australian Communist Party or what it became after the name change and it all became swallowed up by the Australian Labor Party. They still talk about loyalty and honour, what a joke! Their history of Australia is a lie, their lies about the pull out of troops from Vietnam can easily be proven by checking the Internet and making sure it is not something written by a Labor supporter, a independent view is necessary to read the truth.