The SMH had an article in it this week about a Sergeant who was busted with a huge cache of weapons. All obsolete of course - like the stupid F1 sub-machine gun that I had to learn to use back in 1985. The F1 I believe was a knock off of the Sten, which itself was a cheap and nasty sub machine gun made from very thin metal. It was fun to fire, since it was 9mm, had very little recoil and a 20 or 30 round magazine, but it was a waste of space. The magazine was top mounted (I think) and you had to look down the side of it to aim it.
The Corporal that instructed me on it told us a memorable story about using it in Vietnam. He said he emptied half a magazine into the back of a fleeing VC, and the bullets practically bounced off the blokes backpack. He ditched it after that and carried an SLR. And there we were, learning how to use it 20 years later.
Anyway, this Sergeant was charged with having 500,000 rounds of ammo, some SKS rifles, the aforementioned F1 and some other things, but the classic bit is that he was described as being "in charge of the school of artillery at puckapunyal", or wherever it was.
A sergeant. The CO of an artillery school.
Yeah right. Somehow, I think the paper stuffed up something.
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