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Those Devils in Baggy Pants
By David Ross Fraley & Ross S. Carter
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    AATTV Hacking, William Francis (Billy)

    Sgt. William Hacking was our platoon Sergeant during recruit training at Kapooka in 1962 (5 platoon, A Coy.). He was a thoroughly professional soldier who set very high standards for us (which was greatly to our benefit), as I recall he was also a veteran of the Korean War. The concept of him...
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    SASR Denehey, Paul Harold

    Paul and I went through recruit training around the same time (I had joined in January 1962), we then both trained as radio ops on 17/62 basic OWLs course and were posted to 1 Div. Sig. Regt. at Ingleburn NSW at the completion of training. Paul decided to do the SAS cadre course at Ingleburn in...
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