@Ryan Missus found some pics of meet & greets with the high as Kites Indo soldiers who were garrisoned on that border point to support the Special Forces Koppies, we got a long with these guys OK as they were glad to be away from the Koppies & locals. The little guy at the front in the cap with the smoke was the one who warned us about the Koppie as l do not think he was so worried about us as the government/media shit fight that would ensue if we did disappear or were found hacked up .
I am just over 6ft 2" & have size 12 feet it use to be a great source of amusement for both the Indo's & locals alike & much giggling & trying to jump up to my height would accompany any meeting with locals .
They still used the old Bren Machine Guns
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Spent days at a time canoeing to remote areas with the boys on the paddles ,the boys ran on areca nut/Betel nuts which gave a effect like Speed & then at night they smoked a fungi to sleep .They were good blokes who worked with us on & off over the 3 yrs & would stand between us & war parties till cooler heads ruled ,we all gave them part of our Bonus payments to move to a safer area like they all wanted , l often wonder what happened to them .
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