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Old 27th Nov 2011, 09:11
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At least one has been named continuously, Indonesia and that wouldn't be giving away anything.

Re "There seems to me to be far too many in Canberra who are far too willing to destroy or at least minimise any semblance of military tradition in this country."

The Gov't - and military - are so tied up with the "UN, anti war, anti gun, anti firearms" they just don't want any type of history along these lines to survive. They seemed destined to want to fight everything in the future with one arm tied up.

Re the F111's, I am sure it would only have taken a couple of people to say so and all the cockpits, canapoy's and even some skeleton of frames could have been saved and displayed. What harm would a cockpit and canopy on display at Oakey do ? Or even the whole crew escape capsule since it can't be too hard to take out considering it is designed like that. It would look great.
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