Dean Burgess
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah, that's right.
If you're not from there, you don't know.
But many, many stories.
Obviously, when I get up there in Newcastle and talk to Matty, we'll go hard on that.
But, yeah, mate, look, some of the best times of my military career were at Three Hour Hour.
It was a fantastic unit.
I learned a lot of the soldiering skills there and really paved the way for –
My philosophy on that too, bro, is we're all light infantry, but it takes someone pretty stupid or special.
It depends on how you look at it to want to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.
So a little story about that is I grew up in a very small area in country New South Wales in the Snowy Mountains.
People like to call it a town, but it's actually a village.
And for me, the first 12 times I was in an airplane,
I jumped out of it 11 times.
So I'd never been in an airplane before until my parachute course down in Nara at HMAS Albatross.
So the first time I was in an airplane, I got thrown out the side of it.
Yeah, I had a pretty similar...
Pretty similar pathway.
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.
It's a cost-based thing.
But, yeah, I got to Thrara in about two and a half weeks.