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Charlie Company Huey The Goon Platoon Banner, displaying the RAR Corps Badge, Infantry Combat Badge, Medal Bar, US Presidential Citation & the Rat emblem of the Goon Platoon
Poems
This section represents poems about Vietnam and the war.
The poems have been mainly written by the members of Charlie Company.
Lads? by Robert "Dogs" Kearney.
Phantoms Of War by Robert "Bomber" Lewis.
Conflict of Honour
In The Deep Green		 by Robert "Bomber" Lewis.
A Friend Remembered by Warren Turner of 9 Platoon about Dave Paterson.
A Soldier's Christmas unknown author about a Soldier's Christmas.
There Is No War In Viet Nam found by Graham "Mack" Mackie during his Corps Training in Singleton, NSW
Medals by Graham "Mack" Mackie about his skipper Bob Lewis of 9 Platoon
We Were Young Once & Soldiers In Remembrance of Sgt Jimmy Griffiths by Robert S. Kearney
   

SLR. The L1A1 is the Australian version of the Belgian FN FAL rifle. It entered into service with the Australian Army in 1959. The L1A1 was a reliable, hard-hitting, gas-operated, magazine-fed semi-automatic rifle, with a maximum battle range of 300 metres and a practical rate of fire of 20 rpm. In Vietnam the L1A1 was the standard personal weapon of the Australian soldier. With a full 20 round magazine it weighed 4.96Kg.
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