No such thing as 'I can't do it'. But nowadays those
riding on the coattails are likes of Liz Burke spouting
her femi-fascist rubbish. Keep seeing her popping up in
articles and don't have to read 2 sentences and know
who the author is.
Then those types have the temerity to describe likes
of Ralph Blewitt as 'angry white male' and 'stooge'.
Will never forget the snooty-nosed Leigh Sales and
her derisive attitude when she interviewed Blewitt about
AWU scandal and then giggling like a schoolgirl in her
first interview with Malcolm Turnbull.

I've just listened to the first recording after writing my other comment and I mentioned my 20 yr old son, so I can imagine the bravado talk as you joined the service and went through the training..
My son is into 4 wheel driving,(hunting used to get mentioned a lot, his mates were into that at one time) trucks and the like so he talks like the tough know it all kind of guy most young fella's are around that age looking for adventures.. I'm so glad he has now found a good job and is settling into it and working on his dream of a new vehicle and saving his pennies for it..

He's grown up. Should have done that sort of
thing 20 years ago.
And NO doubting the credentials of Ralph Blewitt.

Official govt site shows exactly what he did
in Vietnam War:
http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/VeteranDetails.aspx?VeteranId=1260295
Certificate that doesn't come out of a cereal
packet:
http://www.vietnamroll.gov.au/Certificate.aspx?VeteranId=1260295

Exactly what is happening. With the mine loans,
the banks make good money from them and
of course there'll be rainy day when commodity
prices are at lowest ebb.
However with, for example, Westpac lending
$300 million to Slater and Gordon which
they're unlikely to get back, there is
no benefit to the average customer. The
deposits bum and costs of borrowing rise to
cover such soured loan to liars like Slater
and Gordon and we know they lied because
ASIC forced them to write down $1 billion
off their balance sheet and also even
plaintiff litigation peers such as ACA Lawyers
and Maurice Blackburn are itching to sue them
because they lied to investors and as you
say the 'average customer'.

What does this all mean?
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F04782/
Go into link and press 'Control + F' and type
'Ralph' into search box that appears and within
that link you see this:

Ralph's name is below but feel guilty singling him
out. He doesn't want that, however it does shed
light on what gets trivialized by the 'kewl fashionable'
types that live on coattails of people who had
no regard to their own lives knowing they left loved ones
behind if they perished and yet those riding on their
coattails are calling them 'stooges' and 'sexist pigs'.
'Winner takes all' cheapness and giving nothing back.....
'...Major White and troops boarding truck to return to Company HQ. Free beer, 6708558 Deone Cole, 1731962 Walter Woods, 2783685 Ross Horne, 5714455 Ralph Blewitt, 3790372 Geoffrey Dixon. Display of captured Viet Cong weapons. On leave at Vung Tau Rest and Recreation Centre, Australian, New Zealand and Vietnamese flags. Geoff Cantrill and "To Jo" on leave. [Reel 5]. Baria laundry, ARVN soldiers and Baria locals. ARVN compound, visit by Australian advisers. woman in white at Baria. Battalion water truck. Crashed Helicopter. APC at airfield.....'

Michael, several years back I swallowed my pride & applied for my medals. The union party was in power at the time so my medals arrived mostly unassembled. It seems I was entitled to five in which case I'm sure Ralph should be entitled to at least 6 if not more. However a far cry from the two unproduced ones we were ititially awarded.

I have personally held conversations with Ralph covering a large range of subjects ..I can guarantee to everyone who supports Ralph and Mike, that Ralph Blewitt is 100 % genuine in his desire to assist war veterans.
I have sat less than a metre away from that man and looked him in squarely in the eye when he has passionately told me about the assistance program he is involved with to support military veterans .....The eyes do not lie .....
Ralph is equally passionate in regard to wanting to see Justice done over the AWU business despite his involvement.....
again I was looking Ralph squarely in the eye when he told me that Julia Gillard as PM of this country abused her powers and ruined the lives of both Mike Smith & Glen Milne......and agin the eyes don't lie.
Ralph, as he well knows along with his delightful wife Ruby is welcome in my house any day of the week.....