#111 - Former Brigadier Dan Fortune, DSC and Bar - "Senior Leaders Abandoned Our Soldiers"
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Who is Dan Fortune and what shaped his military career?
Hi guys, welcome back to Two Worlds Collide podcast. On today's episode, we have retired Special Forces Brigadier, Dan Fortune. I hope you guys enjoy. And just like that, the first Brigadier I've ever had on Two Worlds Collide podcast, well, former Brigadier, but Dan Fortune, welcome to Two Worlds Collide podcast, saying if you're coming to Adelaide for the day. But moreover... I've had so many people reach out to me saying, you know, we've heard so much about what's happened in the military over the past few months from incidents which happened whilst we were in the military. And we've only really heard these stories from the highest ranking officer has been Heston Russell, a major. And we all know what happened with him, with ABC coming after him and adding extra gunshots in to make him out, saying that he's not.
Well, that's now the record. That's what the ABC are accountable for, yep.
Yes, but I wanted to get someone a bit higher up because it's not just us diggers that are pissed off with what's happening. It seems to be someone like yourself who's in a very, was in a very high ranking position in the military, former SAS beret operator that was very involved in the military and in the space of... Right in the middle of it, fumbled most of it. Yeah, and whilst we're operations overseas, you were over with these guys as well. So, mate, Dan Fortune, welcome to OzCloud Podcast.
Well, Sam, thanks for having me on, mate. It's a huge thrill to be invited and a huge admirer of your platform. Thank you. Speaking common sense and talking truth to powers, more is needed of it, mate.
Thank you very much. Now, look, you don't have a massive social media presence. So like my previous guests, I just want you to give yourself just a bit of a brief background on maybe just quickly how you grew up, but then also why you moved into the military. And I know it's a massive career, but let's try and not jump over anything, but
shorten it so we can make sure that we capture all the really good stuff that we want to talk about but mate over to you well thanks mate elevator pitch here and now what's in front of me is probably more important than what I've done I joined the army at 17 grew up in WA just moved back home to WA recently so day trip today from Adelaide um born and bred south of the river my father 10 pound uh pom post-war immigrants mum scottish father irish there's a story about my family i'm born the same day as my brother irish twins yeah right you can explore that if you want to know that and the anniversary of my my birth is nine months after some paddy's day as my brothers yeah so dad didn't muck around
And my mother told me that at 35. I always digress to that story. So I grew up state schooling, Roswell, and joined the Army at 17, mate. I was just really lucky. Dad's father was killed in the Second World War. He was Irish Army. He became a RAF air gunner in the back of an aircraft and was killed in a training accident before he even went downrange. So I guess that's the sort of DNA of my military service.
Northern Ireland?
He was in the Southern Irish Army. And at that point in the Second World War, there's no way the Southern Irish Army was getting involved. So he joined the RAF at 31, much older.
Yeah, because I was about to say, Southern Ireland, they didn't join World War II. They stayed well clear of it because of obviously the beef between them and England.
Totally right. And that's the family history that I was not aware of, and then through sort of the storytelling and unpacked it. So he joined the army at 31, was an air gunner, and he's buried in Taosta. And all the air crew are like 19, and he's 31.
That's really interesting. I wonder if he got treated any differently. It's hard to tell. You know.
It's hard to tell.
Did he ever keep a diary or anything like that?
Not something I've explored. Yeah. Daniel is my namesake. Mm-hmm. Buried in Taosta. Don't know the answer to that question. What I do know is the A5 piece of paper aircraft investigation piece when they piled in.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who is Dan Fortune and what shaped his military career?
0:00β25:37
2
How did Dan Fortune describe the impact of the Brereton inquiry on veterans?
25:37β36:48
3
Why does Dan argue senior military leaders βabandoned our soldiersβ?
36:48β1:15:14
4
How were investigations conducted and what is wrong with the Burton/Britton process?
1:15:14β1:35:48
5
What ethical and operational challenges did Australian forces face partnering with Afghan units?
1:35:48β1:53:41
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