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Dean Burgess

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2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

Yeah, that's right.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

If you're not from there, you don't know.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

But many, many stories.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

Obviously, when I get up there in Newcastle and talk to Matty, we'll go hard on that.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

But, yeah, mate, look, some of the best times of my military career were at Three Hour Hour.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

It was a fantastic unit.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

I learned a lot of the soldiering skills there and really paved the way for –

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

My philosophy on that too, bro, is we're all light infantry, but it takes someone pretty stupid or special.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

It depends on how you look at it to want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

So a little story about that is I grew up in a very small area in country New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

People like to call it a town, but it's actually a village.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

And for me, the first 12 times I was in an airplane,

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

I jumped out of it 11 times.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

So I'd never been in an airplane before until my parachute course down in Nara at HMAS Albatross.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

So the first time I was in an airplane, I got thrown out the side of it.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

Yeah, I had a pretty similar...

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

Pretty similar pathway.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

I was lucky because it had been like a six-month build-up because I have to fill the course out before they can send you down there.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

It's a cost-based thing.

2 Worlds Collide Podcast
#99 - Dean Burgess - Ex 2 Commando Operator Speaks on Ben Roberts-Smith, Immigration & Australia’s Future

But, yeah, I got to Thrara in about two and a half weeks.