Because there is so many down-under's on this site that you might be able answer something I was told during the war. Here it goes! I was told by another eod person in my unit that just came bask from Nam that the most dangerus thing in a bar room fights in Nam were Plata-Pussies (female Australian soldiers). Is this true?

Your chain was being yanked. No female Australian soldiers got to Vietnam. Not even in supposed Non-combat jobs.

I'll bet there are a few hundred nurses that will suprised to find that out...

Gidday Kim,

Those girls I met must have been yanks learning to speak with Ocker and Kiwi accents. Thern they became naturalised when they RTNZ.

Maybe I'm wrong but I swear they were born here.

Happy Hunting

Hamish

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Originally posted by KimW9:
Your chain was being yanked. No female Australian soldiers got to Vietnam. Not even in supposed Non-combat jobs.

Jesus H...where did you dredge that crap from?
Have a read of the book "Minefields and Miniskirts"

Several hundred Australian women served with the Army in a nursing/medical role and almost as many served with the RAAF with 9 Squadron flying Medivac.

My apologies, I got it wrong. I saw "soldiers" and failed to make the connection with military nurses, let alone civilian.

" About 210 Australian nurses travelled to South Vietnam between 1964 and 1972 to care for injured civilians during the war."

In any case, calling them "Plata-Pussies' and implying that they regularly got drunk does not sit well.

Why the interest in bar fights from a war we lost 33 years ago ?

You'll also find some of those ex-vietnam nurses (male and female) some of the most rock steady ex-service returnees.