Out-Jungling
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Jungles
Wartime stories of civilian cooks who were drafted into bridge-building units while civil engineers became mili tary spud-peelers are legion, out the Army now appears to be outdqina itself in sending the Pacific Islands Regiment (PNG’s native soldiers ) to Queensland for jungle-war fare training.
An announcement to this effect was made over the ABC national-news on September In the last Queen’s Birth day Honours, Sub-Inspector F. Hoeter of Madang, who is also a Captain in the PNGVR, was the only Territorian to receive an honour. Captain Hoeter was awarded the MBE, for the outstanding work he had done in connection with the PNGVR, and particularly for his creation of a jungle warfare school at Madang.
The natural assumption would be that the local PIR would go to Madang for jungle training, but ap parently the Minister for De fence has plans for our one and only PIR Regiment to defend us in the jungles of Australia in the event of war!
P.R.