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‘Paludrine Parade’ Official Newsletter of the Royal Australian Army Service Corps
Vietnam Supply Platoons Association
Patron: MAJGEN David McLachlan AO (Rtd). Web Site: http:/raascsupply.asn.au/
Edition No: 54
Winter 2019
Soldiers of the 29th Battalion
near the Western Front.
I mmediately after the recent Federal election, Prime Minis-ter Scott Morrison announced his new government. Of in-
terest to our readers, is that Sena-tor Linda Reynolds has been pro-moted to Minister for Defence, after spending less than three months in the Defence Industry portfolio.
The new Minister for Defence In-dustry is Melissa Price, who former-ly served as Environment Minister. She also served on the Foreign Af-fairs, Defence and Trade Parliamen-tary Committee, and numerous oth-ers. Melissa Price was a lawyer by profession before beginning her career as a politician. She was elect-ed to parliament in 2013. She served on a range of committees, including Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. She was appointed Min-ister for the Environment in August last year.
Darren Chester retains responsibil-ity for Veterans and Defence Per-sonnel – however, in a change that
probably won’t have much practi-cal impact, he is now officially the Minister for Veterans and Defence Personnel in a single portfolio – as opposed to the duel ministerships of Minister for Veterans’ Affairs and Minister for Defence Person-nel. Mr Chester also had a third appointment as Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Cen-tenary of ANZAC, now concluded. 41 year-old Alex Hawke is the new Assistant Minister for De-fence in the Lower House. Mr Hawke is an experienced politi-cian, first elected to Parliament in 2007. Defence is his fourth assis-tant ministerial appointment. Peter Dutton retains the helm at Home Affairs – and former De-fence Minister Marise Payne is still the Minister for Foreign Af-fairs. Linda Reynolds served in the Australian Army for 29 years from 1984 to 2012 in part-time and full-time posi-tions. Following officer training, she became a re-gional logistical officer as a second lieutenant and made captain in the position. She progressed to training de-velopment officer (captain), commanding officer 5th Combat Support Battalion (lieutenant colonel), military instructor at Command and Staff College, senior career manager and Director of Active Standby Staff Group (colonel). She went on to be adjutant general in the Army Reserve as a brigadier,
where she was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross for outstanding achievement as the Director of Army Strategic Re-form Program. She was the first woman in the ARES to be pro-moted to star rank.
Ex Army Combat Support Battalion
CO, Linda Reynolds, promoted as
New Minister for Defence Contents;
Page 1. New Minister for defence.
Page 2. Committee and Reps con-
tact list. Just for laughs.
Page 3. Update on Veterans Card.
Page 4. You may be entitled to
free Exercise Physiotherapy
sessions!
Page 5. A modern Russian Army
diet (not for the faint hearted)!!
Page 6. Page 5 continued and a
hearty recipe from one of our own!
Page 7. Feeding Antarctica
Page 8. Membership renewal
form.
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D uring training exercises, the Lieutenant who was driving down a muddy back road encoun-tered another car stuck in the mud with a red-faced Colonel at the wheel. "Your car stuck,
sir?" asked the Lieutenant as he pulled alongside. "Nope," replied the colonel, coming over and handing him the keys. "Yours is.
The Sergeant-Major growled at the young soldier: "I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning." The soldier replied: "Thank you very much, sir.""
A Drill Sergeant had just chewed out one of his cadets, and as he was walking away, he turned to the cadet and said: "I guess when I die you'll come and dance on my grave." The cadet replied: "Not me, Sarge…no sir! "I promised my-self that when I got out of the Army I'd never stand in anoth-
er line."
Just for a laugh
A Soldier and a Marine were sitting next to each other on a plane. The Marine took off his boots and began to stretch out. The soldier swore under his breath at the Marine and told him he wanted to get up and get
a drink. The Marine insisted that since he was in the aisle seat he would get it for him. The Soldier agreed, and when the Ma-rine went to get his drink, he started spitting in the Marine’s boots. When the Marine came back, the Soldier nodded and thanked him for the drink, very pleased he pulled one over on the Marine. This happened several times throughout the flight. When the plane was descending for the landing, the Marine put his boots back on and quickly realized the Soldier had been spit-ting in his boots. To the Soldiers surprise, the Marine was laughing about it. He looked over at the Soldier and said “when are we going to stop playing these games, spitting in each others boots and piss-ing in each others drinks, it’s so juvenile!”
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T he Australian Defence Veterans' Covenant was announced by the Prime Minister, Scott Mor-rison MP on 27 October last year.
The Covenant encourages Australia to recognise and acknowledge the unique nature of military service, and support veterans and their families. The Covenant includes an oath, which the Australian people will be en-couraged to take at community commemorative events, such as Remembrance Day. The new Veteran Card and an Australian Veteran Lapel Pin and a Reservist Lapel Pin underpin the Covenant. The intention of the Covenant is to provide employers, businesses, local communities, and veteran and sporting organisations the opportunity to commit to supporting veterans and their families.
Veteran Card. Veteran applicants, new to DVA, can apply for the new Veteran Card by creating a MyService account and, there, request a Veteran Card. The Veteran Card will make it easier for Australians to recognise and respect the contribution that veterans have made to Australia and for our veterans to connect with the broader Australian com-munity. The Veteran Card is available to anyone who has served in the Australian Defence Force with at least one day of continuous full-time service. Eligible Reservists, including those engaged in Disaster Relief Service, Border Protection Service, or involved in a serious service-related training accident, will also be able to request a Veteran Card. The card will help Australian businesses, service providers and community organisations to identify veter-ans so they can offer their acknowledgement and respect. For example, the card could provide a platform for busi-nesses and community groups to provide tangible recogni-tion and service to holders of the card.
It is important to note that the respective business or or-ganisation determines what concessions, if any, they choose to offer to a veteran and their family. There is no obligation for a business or organisation to offer a conces-sion. The appearance of the Veteran Card is a redesign of DVA's current health treatment cards (Gold, White and Orange).
Existing DVA health cards (Gold, White and Orange)
All existing DVA health card holders (Gold or White) and concession card holders (Orange) do not need to apply. Your existing services and entitlements are maintained. Health providers and participating businesses will recog-nise your existing card. The new-look card will be issued to you over the coming months. You can request a Veteran Lapel Pin and Oath using MyService.
The Oath.
A key objective of the Covenant is recognition and support of the Australian community for veterans and their families. The Oath is a declaration on behalf of the Australian people to give an enduring and formal recognition of the valued contri-bution that current and former members of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and their families make today, and have made in the past, to our country.
The Oath is not intended to replace the Ode, but is an addi-tional commitment of respect to Australia's military veterans. The Oath may be said at special events such as community commemorative events, such as Remembrance Day.
Veteran Lapel Pin and
Reservist Lapel Pin.
The Pins provide a way for the public to recognise and connect with veterans and acknowledge their service to the nation. The pins will help identify veterans when they aren't wearing their uniform or medals. The pins will be available for distribution
in the first half of 2019.
Latest on the new Veterans Card
Please note
• This is the commencement of the implementation of the Australian Defence Veterans' Covenant.
• Registration is aimed at those new to DVA.
• Current DVA health card holders will be issued with the new Veteran Card over the coming months.
• Registration includes the following: 1. As a veteran you are eligible for free treatment
under the Non Liability Health Care (NLHC) arrangements for mental health, should you ever need it
2. During the application you will be asked to provide your bank details, as you may be eligible for a fort-nightly payment supplement, associated with the NLHC arrangements
3. Applications received prior to 18 February 2019 may receive an interim physical card by post, with the new physical Veteran Card following a few weeks later.
• The Government is working with Australian businesses and community organisations to discuss tangible recog-nition and services for Veteran Card holders.
• More information, including a list of participating busi-nesses, will be available on this website over the com-ing weeks.
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Purpose. This article provides information on the eligi-bility requirements for exercise physiology services. It also provides information on how to access these ser-vices.
What is exercise physiology? Exercise physiology services include the delivery of clinical exercise interven-tions to manage chronic disease and the provision of post-acute exercise rehabilitation for people recovering from major injury or illness. Exercise physiology contrib-utes to the management of:
• diabetes
• cardiovascular disease
• osteoporosis
• arthritis
• cancer, & muscular conditions of a chronic nature.
Who is eligible? If you have a Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA) Health Card – All Conditions (Gold) or To-tally & Permanently Incapacitated (Gold), DVA will pay for exercise physiology services available through DVA arrangements to meet your clinical needs. If you have a DVA Health Card – Specific Conditions (White), DVA will pay for exercise physiology services provided under DVA arrangements, if they are required because of an accept-ed war or service caused injury or disease. How do I get access to this service? You must be re-ferred to an exercise physiologist who is able to provide services under the Medicare Benefits Scheme (MBS). A referral can be issued by a:
• Local Medical Officer (LMO)
• General Practitioner (GP)
• medical specialist
• treating doctor in hospital
• hospital discharge planner, or
• exercise physiologist with a current referral.
Referrals remain active for 12 months and cannot over-lap from one 12 month period to the next.
What happens when I visit the exercise physiologist? Please present your DVA Gold or White Health Card at the beginning of a consultation or before you receive treatment. The exercise physiologist will assess your clinical need for exercise physiology and will take into consideration any other related treatments you are re-ceiving. They will prepare a written care plan for the period of care required and will discuss this with you. The exercise physiologist will provide you with a copy of the treatment record for your reference.
Do I need to sign a treatment record? Service provid-ers can submit treatment records electronically. If this is not the case, you may be required to sign a record of treatment at the completion of each visit to ensure your
treatment is covered by DVA. Before you sign, please check that the treatment record shows:
• your name
• your DVA file number
• the date of treatment
• the item number for the service provided, and
• your accepted disability or condition for which you required exercise physiology services and/or sup plies (if you are a White Card holder).
If you are unable to sign, a member of your family, or someone else who attends the appointment with you, may sign on your behalf. Otherwise the exercise physi-ologist must note that you are unable to sign.
Are there limits to the number of services I can re-ceive? Yes, your exercise physiologist will determine the type, number and frequency of services you re-quire according to your assessed clinical need. Exercise physiology is designed to give you the skills to inde-pendently manage your health condition through an appropriate exercise regime; it is not intended to be an ongoing form of treatment. There are limits to services that can be provided to entitled persons who are classified as requiring a greater level of care in an Australian Government fund-ed residential aged care facility (RACF). Services for entitled persons classified as requiring a greater level of care should be provided by the RACF, except in exceptional circumstances which require pri-or approval from DVA. It is the exercise physiologist’s responsibility to determine the care level of an entitled person in a residential aged care facility before they provide treatment. You should advise your treating exercise physiologist if another exercise physiologist has provided you with treatment during the previous 12 months. This will prevent your current provider from experiencing diffi-culties in claiming payment for services provided to you.
Do I need to pay for treatment? No, your exercise physiologist will bill DVA directly for any care provid-ed to you if the service is provided under DVA arrange-ments. This represents the full fee for the service pro-vided. If you are billed by the exercise physiologist, do not pay the account and advise DVA immediately. If a gym/pool access fee is required to access an exercise physiologist, this fee is already included in the fee paid by DVA. You are not required to pay for gym/pool en-try to attend your exercise physiology session.
Does DVA pay for gym programs, general exercise programs or gym memberships? No, DVA does not pay for gym programs, general exercise programs or gym memberships under Gold or White Card arrange-ments.
Here’s how you can access DVA approved exercise
physiology services free of charge for eligible veterans.
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Under current regulations, a Russian soldier's daily rations should amount to about 4,500 kcal and consist of 117 food products. This amount of food could form the basis of a menu at a decent restaurant. We've examined the main dishes that Rus-sian ground troops are served and found out what soldiers like best and what they miss most.
1. Porridge with sausage, and eggs with bread A typical breakfast in the army is porridge with sausage or a cutlet. Porridge, for example, oatmeal is not the most favourite dish, but it's eaten at lightning speed, like everything else on the table. "The most delicious thing at breakfast is to spread some butter on a slice of bread and to put an egg on it, cut in half. Or you can spread jam on the bread," says Niko-lai, reminiscing about his conscript past.
2. Pelmeni and vareniki with cottage cheese. Once or twice a week soldiers get a special treat for breakfast in the form ofpelmeni or vareniki with cot-tage cheese and sour cream, which many later recall with a smile. "At first, pelmeni are a source of incredible joy, but with time the effect wears off. After
all, they are not some branded pelmeni, just ordinary ones," Niko-lai admits.
3. Leningrad rassolnik. For a long time, pearl barley porridge (made from whole grain barley) was seen by many mili-tary men as a curse. It is very cheap, so it was served everywhere. Un-der new army regula-tions, pearl barley por-ridge is no longer considered a separate dish, but it can be used as part of other dishes, for example, in Leningrad rassolnik. In addition to pearl barley, the list of ingredients includes meat, potatoes, pickled cucumbers, carrots and onions. The main thing is to be generous with the meat.
4. "Field" soup. This soup with millet takes 20-25 minutes to cook, even in field conditions. The recipe is very simple: potatoes and millet are boiled until they are ready. Onions are cut into cubes, carrots are grated and pan-fried in sunflower oil. The vegeta-bles are then added to the
pot or saucepan together with canned meat.
5. Stewed cabbage. Stewed cabbage is a memory shared by all who have ever served in the Russian army. It is a typical side dish to meat or sausages.
6. Vinegret. In the absence of fresh vegeta-bles, vinegret is a perfect solution. It is not to be confused with vinai-grette. Vinegret is a salad made from boiled vege-tables: potatoes, beets, carrots, pickles and peas, and then usually sea-soned with sunflower oil. "For me, vinegret is still
associated with service in the army," says Mikhail.
7. Buckwheat with canned stewed meat. Buckwheat por-ridge is a versatile dish that's almost impossible to spoil. In com-bination with the famous canned stewed meat – tushonka – it makes for a delicious and filling meal. If the chef is in a good mood, before cook-ing the buckwheat, he or she can prepare it in a frying pan, then the por-ridge will have a nutty taste.
8. Fish for dinner. For dinner, soldiers are usually given fish with a side dish, for example, buckwheat or mashed potatoes. "The fish is of the most simple and cheap varieties, such as pollock or cod, nothing special," recalls Nikolay. Soldiers who misbe-
haved dur-ing the day are pun-ished with the chore of pealing potatoes for the next day's dishes after din-ner. How-ever, it is not neces-
sarily a reason to be upset. Sometimes it is an opportunity to get a second helping of dinner.
Remember our own ration scales? The varied of choice (or lack there of), in our various messes. Well here’s another army’s version of good wholesome tucker.
How do you bulk up as a warrior? They say it’s physical exercise, a solid regimen and a soldiers' diet. So here is a light hearted look at food rations designed for
todays modern Russian soldier!
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The gathering of the clan at the 2017 Hobart Reunion formal dinner.
Our President Graeme Sherriff with our guest
speaker, Port Macquarie Mayor Peta Pinson
A few weeks back, I sent out a call for your favourite recipes. Bob Denner was very quick of the mark and has sent me this delicious looking recipe
and with all of the winter chills now upon us, it’s a timely addition to ward off those chilly days.
German Potato Soup (Kartofflesuppe) ( Serves 6)
Ingredients: • 1/4 cup butter, • 2 white onions, diced small, • 4 slices bacon, diced small, • 1 bay leaf, • 2 quarts chicken broth, • 4 russet potatoes, diced, • 2 tablespoons flour, • 1 teaspoon dried marjoram, • 1 teaspoon caraway seed, • salt and ground black pepper to taste, • A good dash of sour cream. Method; 1. Melt butter in a stockpot over medium heat. 2. Add onions, bacon, and bay leaf, 3. Cook and stir the onion mixture until the
onions are nearly clear, (about 5 to 7 minutes),
4. Pour chicken broth into the pot, 5. Add potatoes, flour, marjoram, caraway
seed, salt, and pepper. 6. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heat to
medium-low and simmer until the potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
7. Stir sour cream into the soup; cook another 1 to 2 minutes.
Our Russian Army food adventure continued from previous page...
9. Dessert. On holidays, soldiers may be given sweets or other treats: a piece of cake for Easter, tangerines for the New Year, pan-cakes with condensed milk and sour cream for Maslenitsa. "With the appearance of sweets on the table, we understood that it was a holiday. In the army you lose track of time, and then suddenly there are cookies, sweets or tangerines on the table and you realize that it is Febru-ary 23 or the New Year," says Nikolay.
10. Sausage from home. Next to a military unit is usually a store that sells food, but soldiers do not always have money or the chance to go there. Newly arrived recruits do not have permission to leave the unit. In such cases, help may come in the form of a visit by relatives or a parcel from home. "The thing that you wait for
most are parcels from par-ents on the weekend. They might have sau-sage, choc-olate or some other treat," Nikolai recalls.
Source: https://www.rbth.com/russian-kitchen/328948-
soldier-10-russian-army-dishes.
And of course, things haven’t changed that
much. Who wasn’t excited to receive a food par-
cel from home containing some of your favourite
items. Anzac biscuits, some lamingtons and
best of all—a jar of vegemite! Ed.
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which accelerates the ripening of everything else around it.”
The kitchen at all the stations is a focal point and social hub for expeditioners, so getting the right chef is central to the happiness of the team.
While they don’t have to be Michelin starred chefs, they do need to be solid all-rounders, producing more ‘home-style’ food. They also need to be able to step it up when there are big social occasions, such as the traditional mid-winter feast, Christmas or birthday celebrations.
Each station has one winter chef, while there are two extra chefs at Davis and Casey over the busy summer peri-od, when the kitchen can be catering for up to 100 hungry expeditioners. The kitchens provides four meals a day, including morning tea. Casey serves nearly 56 000 meals each year, while Davis plates up about 47 000, Mawson 22 000 and Macquarie Island around 27 000.
“Our chefs generally work five and a half days a week and are rostered off on Sundays. On the rest day the ‘slushy’ usu-ally steps in to fill the void, or it will be a ‘catch and kill’ affair, with expeditioners fending for themselves,” Noel said.
Most importantly, chefs must manage their supplies carefully so that they don’t use up all their ingredients within the first month.
“If you run out of an ingredient you can’t just ring up a supplier, you have to be innovative and resourceful in what you can produce from a finite Antarctic pantry.”
Nisha Harris Corporate Communications Australian Antarctic Magazine—Issue 32: June 2017
F rom Christmas feasts to the traditional mid-winter dinner, the man charged with ensuring everything is on the table is Australian Antarctic Division Chefs’ Adviser, Noel Tennant. “Life on station pretty much
revolves around food,” Noel said. “Meals bring variety and ex-citement to the expeditioners’ lives, particularly during the long dark winter months when it can become a bit like ground-hog day. “Food is also the first layer of defence, to warm the body against the cold, so getting the right amount and type of food is essential.”
The Division has an annual catering budget of $1.3 mil-lion for 12 months. This means today’s expeditioners can en-joy greater variety and more appetising fare than the “hoosh” (stewed pemmican and sledging biscuits) relied on by early Antarctic explorers. “I work out the average amount of food a person would eat over a year, then I round up,” Noel explained. “We have to have some ‘fat’ in our stores, because we could end up with more people on station at any time, if the ship is late or people get stuck because of bad weather.”
The station shopping list includes about 52 000 kg of fro-zen and fresh fruit and vegetables. Any fresh produce has to have a long shelf life. “We send a lot of potatoes, carrots, ap-ples and citrus south. We tend to steer away from soft fruit and vegetables that spoil easily,” Noel said. “Fresh eggs are oiled with paraffin before they are sent south, which essentially seals the shell and stops the egg from going off. “In the dairy depart-ment, all the milk is powdered and the yoghurt is made from freeze-dried cultures. We mainly use hard and semi-hard chees-es that are more likely to last 12 months.”
The food is generally not plate ready and most things have to be made from scratch. “We provide a lot of base ingredients that take time to prepare; for example the chefs have to make bread and pastry daily, but this also gives them more scope to produce different dishes.”
The journey by ship across the notoriously rough Southern Ocean can take a toll on the condition the food arrives in, so Noel and his team have developed a range of methods to en-sure the supplies arrive in top condition.
“We pack everything very carefully in refrigerated containers and use ozone generators in transit, to keep bacteria and fungi at bay,” he said. “We also put ‘ethyl stoppers’ in the containers of fresh fruit and vegetables, to slow the ripening process. Eth-ylene is produced by fresh food, such as bananas, when it ripens,
When the closest supermarket is more than 4000 kilometres away, and
resupply is just once a year, getting the shopping list right for Australia’s
Antarctic and sub-Antarctic stations is crucial.
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