Michael von Berg MC OAM - EP 42 - Vietnam to Afghanistan

From the rugby fields in Australia to contacts in the jungles of Vietnam.

establishing the first reconnaissance platoon and serving as one of the country's elite warriors in the SASR.

Michael von Berg MC OAM takes us on a journey with the hope of not repeating history; we look at the mistakes a nation made over 50 years ago after the Vietnam war and the similarities with the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

 

Topics:

Operation Queanbeyan 

The first Australian reconnaissance platoon

Resilience

Moral injury 

Is history repeating itself 

Lived experience 

Getting on with life after you come home

Connections to tribe through trust.

 

Handy Links

 

https://www.trojanstrek.com/

This program cost the participant nothing. Held in SA and Qld.

 

https://www.rarnationalmemorialwalk.org.au/

Located at Enoggera, It is a living memorial of trees remembering some 400 plus of our RAR that have fallen.

 

https://vwma.org.au/

Micheal is an ambassador for the Virtual War Memorial, which is run out of SA. The RAR (SA). Everyone who has served should be on this for the posterity of an individual's military service, no matter what form, where it will be held in perpetuity. To give you an idea, here is Mick's page.

 

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