Scott Jones
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Oh my God.
And yeah.
Yeah, I'd been there before, like just after high school.
My missus has Brazilian heritage and we went over there for a couple months and that's when I was trying to still be a pro soccer player and I thought like if I go to Brazil, I'm going to make it.
They're going to notice me.
I played every fucking day over there, but yeah, you get paid peanuts.
So eventually I had to come back and face the music and join the army.
But so 2014 was sick.
We were comfortable over there living in the favelas with like her, her family.
And it was fucking sick.
Loved every second of it.
And it was with all my civilian mates like from Campbelltown.
Imagine 15 Campbelltown boys.
Yeah.
In Rio de Janeiro.
Just turn it on.
Damage.
Get back from Rio.
And we go straight like I landed and the boss is like, you're back from leave?
Okay, you've got to go to Papua New Guinea and do like some training, train up those fuzzy wuzzies on some amphib drills.