Scott Jones
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But I gave him respect because he had pips on his shoulder and I wish I could go back in time and spit on him.
But he did me a favor because I think everyone would agree.
Yeah, exactly.
I'm not an officer.
Imagine.
Imagine me as either a police officer or a military officer.
Nah.
Nah.
I'd be worse than Andrew Hastie dropping bombs on kids, mate.
Fucking, there'd be a bit more of that going on.
So a month later, I was on the bus to Kapuka as a rifleman, as a grunt.
So you enlisted as a grunt?
Yeah, mate.
Fist pump.
But then I was too scared.
So what happened was second week at Kapuka, we did a lesson.
It was like, hey, if you don't think you're liking the idea of infantry, so I was in an all stag infantry platoon, two platoons.
It was when 8-9 RER was being raised and John Howard was like,
Fucking open that up.
We're going to need it.