Clearly this image is an ADF propaganda publicity photo despached online out of ADF Recruitment Department – yeah but they brand themselves ‘ADF Careers‘. As if? An average service stint in the ADF is 10 years, or try 3 months at Duntroon where you can still resign and even AWOL at a time of your choosing, if your reckon the place and training is crap – which it is BTW.
ADF Careers website quote:
“Join The ADF — Join A Diverse And Supportive Workplace And Achieve Your True Potential. Discover A Variety Of Meaningful And Worthwhile Roles In The ADF. Travel The World.”
Source: https://www.adfcareers.gov.au/
Frankly, political reviews Royal Comissions et al. mean shit. They fail to mention the shit condoned within nor fix the underlying problems, repeatedly:
2011-2013: Review into the Treatment of Women in the Australian Defence Force
And well, airlines allow civilians to travel da world, y’all!
For starters, and from one’s personal experience in the ADF, this author first suggests to all prospective military recruits thinking of joining the Australian Defence Force (ADF), and particularly to females, to seriously avoid the ADF’s bullying and rape culture, so to thus consider alternatives to your ambitions in military service, please. This is from hindsight.
Suitable equivalent similar cultural alteratives are rather limited in Australia, but in one’s own view consider New Zealand. (One’s been to NZ three times, lived there, flown choopers there, Kiwis are like Aussies, just get use to, even edept, the accent bro/sis!).
This is one to consider to serve in a decent military to ANZAC legendary standards: Australia’s smarter cousins – the New Zealand Defence Force: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/army/
No Kiwi visa required for Aussies into NZ. Too many of them downunder. Check it out! https://www.travellerdeclaration.govt.nz/
SOURCE: ‘Kiwi plays key role in world’s largest peacekeeping mission’, 25/10/2023, [SOURCE]
Now I’d trust her more than any Aussie NCO, or Duntroon senior cadet, or Brass – aka those older greyer folk adorning gold-coloured shoulder pad jewellery to pretend their more special than those who actually do the life threatening job within the same bloody military outfit of taking the fight to the enemy!
Moving on:
