IT WAS interesting to learn via the ABC’s 7.30 that, when talking amongst themselves, some soldiers take a vulgar interest in women, use roughly language, enjoy coarse jokes and make disparaging remarks about your more irritable foreigners, the sort who put a lot of effort into shooting, blowing up or hacking the heads off Australian comrades currently serving somewhere in the Middle Ages.
While those revelations came as a terrible shock, it was nothing to the surprise of seeing the ABC's source of guidance on the need to re-wire the warrior circuitry of Australia’s fighting men. That would be Laurel Papworth, whose expertise was said to have been drawn from “advising defence forces overseas on social media policy.”
Laurel is certainly the go-to gal on matters martial, as her inquiry into the Canadian Air Force leaves no doubt. Smart as a whip, that one, as her de-briefing of an informant in item #2 also makes clear.
Anyone who still doubts Papworth’s expertise in matters of tactics and strategy should consult the war memoirs of MuMbrella’s Tim Burrowes, who witnessed one of her longer campaigns at close quarters.
UPDATE: Laurel explains Monday's spill for those not so smart as she. How could the ABC resist such insight?
UPDATE: Laurel explains Monday's spill for those not so smart as she. How could the ABC resist such insight?
