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I was reading your story about the hitchhiker in Australia when it reminded me of my own experience there. It was 1976 and we had just finished operation
Kangaroo II and the ship that I was on went to Brisbane for a little R & R. Another Marine and I were walking into town when a married couple picked us up.
He was in the Austrailian Army Medical Corps. The couple took us to their apartment and treated us like family. For the entire week that we were there they took us
around Brisbane, showed us all the sites, made us homemade meals. After the week in Brisbane the ship I was on got lucky and we went north to another
town called Cairns also in Austraila. When the people there found out that we were US Marines they treated us like friends. If is wasn't for the Marine Corps i would
have never been able to see the parts of the world that I did.
Semper Fi
Cpl Terry Hewitt USMC
Discussion
Dale Peterson Jr. November 21 2011, 7:51 pm
I was on operation Kangaroo in late 1974…we found the same thing the Austrailian people loved us. After holding a training operation with the Austrailian Army and Navy in the northeast part of Austrailia for 2 weeks we sailed to Sidney and had 2 weeks there. When we left we sailed to Subic Bay and resupplied for the evacuation of Saigon which was suppose to happen in December of 1974, but was postponed until May 1975 due to weather and Political reasons.
I seen in the news last week President Obama is sending Marines to Austrailia and sometime soon they will have a base there….All I have to say is what a great place to be stationed.
CPL D.E.(PETE) PETERSON
2531/2532, Radio Plt, 7th Comm Btn, 31st MAU, III MAF,3rd MAR. DIV. FMF, PACIFIC, 1974
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