0500 stand-too
Then off we go to our rendezvous
Expected RV around seven hundred hours
A walk in the 'J' - to smell the flowers
Five hours later we're still out walking
Who went wrong? everyones talking
Two Section was that you out front?
I guess you have to bear the brunt
Stop for lunch of with the pack
A quick brew and a light snack
Remember the date loaf Watties make
That was it My birthday cake
Stop on high ground and shoot a bearing
What a day and still people swearing
Late afternoon we hear a sound
One more gully? one more mound?
JUST BEFORE VIETNAM
Written 8 December 1967
at Jungle Warfare School
Jahore Bahru, Malaysia.
Ten days before flying out to Vietnam.
Then we find it that old tin mine
What a relief, and not before time
ETA 0700
What a joke, someone had blundered
Back to JWS some 13 hrs late
Most oblivious to the significance of that date
That was my Twenty-first Lost in the 'J'
And Vietnam only days away.