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Another skyliner saying cheerio, Tomorrow I'll be busing off to Kapooka to start a hopefully enjoyable career serving in the Australian army.

Just wanted to say Cheers for the support and times had while been involved on this forum.

I wish everyone the best into the future and with there respective skylines. and who knows maybe by some freak occurance I'll eventually get posted back here one day, and we'll have some more good times :O

Best wishes

Shawn

:laugh::D:/:):wave: :wave:

:O thats just cos the banana is cool

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yeah I'll be keeping the skyline, with any luck i get posted near a decent track :D

I'm going in as a finance clerk I know it's not the most macho job choice but I decided hey whats going to make me a but load of cash once my four years is up if i've had enough of the army :laugh:

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*Big man hug*

Now who's gonna encourage me to go out on Friday nights and spend more and more money on my Skyline? ;)

I pic up my 33 in the next few weeks so i can, lets do a group buy on traction paint and quad overhard sunvisors.

Shawn will miss out and feel inferior.

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Good luck mate, i am off soon aswell, just doing resevers though, so i will stay in canberra.

Still got the same training ;)

Good luck i cant wait to go to kapooka. IT WILL BE ALSOME.

PS, once your done at kapooka post up how you went. :)

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Good luck.

Rules I remember

Don't lean on the walls

Don't volunteer for anything

Don't take all that stuff they tell you to take, just some trousers, shoes and shirt. You WILL be issued with anything you need. You will need to CARRY your luggage everywhere with you, don't take bags with wheels you will carry them anyway.

Don't get caught with the girls

Do go to Sunday Church, gets you out of cleaning and the only place for getting wine.

Don't say you were part of any cadets etc

Gezz there's a million more, you'll find out soon.

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cheers guys yeah I'm aiming to be the grey man do enough not to be noticed but not to much to be noticed

I'm expecting it to probably suck balls but hey it's only eighty days possibily less than sixty to begin with if i get sent home for two weeks over christmas (said so in my paper work but I'll wait and see if it actually happens) and I'd like to think i'm big enough and ugly enough to get through it :thanks:

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Good luck! Hopefully you get to learn how to do cool stuff like run for hours with a big heavy pack, crawl through mud and get up at 5 in the morning.

Sounds like fun to me. Anyways, hope all goes well and hopefully we will see you around christmas!?

As for everybody else, do we really need encouragement to spend money on our cars? What else are you going to spend it on? Food? Rent? Maybe we need to set up a support group for those who are losing their way. Hahaha.

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Yeah wish you well Shawn, give us the heads up when you're returning and I'll try to organise a lunch or dinner cruise somewhere so we can all catch up.

Don't get caught with the girls

I guess its best to get caught with the girls than anything else :( but if you do get caught... we want pics :)

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Yes you will get 2 weeks off at christmas cos the instructors have lives too (i personally reckons its weak as piss) and you will get heaps of leave in the army plus there is plenty of clerk postings in Canberra, so we will se you often im sure.

Goodluck and my advice is dont take shit from the arms corps, just laugh at the fact you will get payed more for a lot less work (well it always pissed me off anyways).

hahahahaha have with kapooka that place sucks balls... been in for 5 yrs now

Second that. What u do in there dude?

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