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Old 2nd January 2009 | 23:27
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From: Darraweit Guim, Victoria
Best feedback, (and #2 most amusing), I ever had in a training session was from Ted: "!!!! Spod! This is boring, f%$k something up so I've got something to write about." From memory I delivered fairly promptly...

An absolutely luverly bloke whose leadership and effort helped make the course in Tassie bearable. He was my senior instructor and really put in for us, reflected in the pass rate! The senior instructor is supposed to give a talk at the start of the course to indicate what the review and appeal process is if the chopper falls. I don't think he could bring himself to be that negative about things, and one of the other senior instructors, (a reptilian type who obviously enjoyed such things), did it for him. He seemed genuinely upset when some of us struggled, and genuinely jubilant at the successful (for most) conclusion.

Thank you for your exemplary efforts on behalf of us all in the Union and elsewhere.

I will hold dear memories of Ted. My sincere condolences and best wishes to Jen and their children. I can't imagine what you are feeling right now.

Why is a nice bloke like that no longer with us, and c@#ts like TFN & RHS still slithering around???
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