God save the Queen
When I was with the 25th ID we had a small firebase south of Blackhorse not far from Vung Tau. Above us was a rock Quarry run by the Aussies Royal Engineers, on our maps we outlined the quarry and it was AO mouse. One day while visiting our Aussie neighbors, the LT told us that they were going to be replaced with a Mary unit. We couldn't wait for them to come in and speculation ran high as to the type of unit it was, just think an army unit named for the Queen. We figured it was a highly decorated unit from WW II, Expert jungle fighters and counter insurgents. MAYbe a super unit from their British SAS forces. RUMORS RAN RAMPANT AMOUNGST US. 2 weeks later we made a social visit to the quarry and found our replacement unit to be quite a suprise. It was a native New Zeland Maori unit. I did learn to play a digere do though.
Tan me hide when I'm dead Fred.
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