2007-10-21 20:42:06 · 16 answers · asked by Tom O 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In World War 2, they were largely responsible for the victory in North Africa. They fought superbly on DDay. The were a good part of the beating of Germany. They also fought with distinction in the Korean War and the Viet Nam War. As an American, I am very glad they were on our side. They are a fantastic group of soldiers.
2007-10-21 22:08:32 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Quite a lot of things.
Killing kangaroos is one of them - artillery fire at Puckapunyal actually kills a lot of them. It's no joke - most Australian military bases are absolutely swarming with the dang things.
One apocryphal story has it that a pair of Malaysian artillery officers on exchange doing Forward Observer training saw a pack of Kangaroos at Puckapunyal and were impressed by them, only to see them blown to pieces by gunners on exercise.
PI has sand fleas, Kapooka has roo droppings littered across the grass. Of course there'll be quite a bit of resentment towards them. Enough resentment to kill a few dozen, hundred, thousand, that's all.
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Australian soldiers aren't known for one thing in particular. Neither is any military force of the world - ask an American what makes a Marine so well known, and I guarantee you'll get a multitude of various answers. To be fair, most of the answers you got here are somewhat right.
Beer, hot women (except a sergeant I know of), hiding (field craft), kangaroos, accents, special forces, mateship, professionalism, tagging along with the US/UK fairly recently... yep.
2007-10-21 23:32:55 · answer #2 · answered by Gotta have more explosions! 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Dying for America and Britain
AU Oct 25th, on News.com.au "AN Australian SAS soldier has been shot and killed by Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, Defence boss Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said tonight."
There goes another one for America. Makes 2 in the last couple of weeks.
2007-10-21 20:47:38 · answer #3 · answered by Ferret 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Kicking A*S in Afghanistan.
http://www.defence.gov.au/opslipper/images...NTACT%20WEB.wmv
And for the Ignorant Trolls: The Australian's and New Zelander's gave the lives in WW1 and WW2 gave their lives for the FREE WORLD., as they continue to do today.
2007-10-21 21:18:33 · answer #4 · answered by conranger1 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
In reality they are fantastic special forces soldiers.
2007-10-21 20:56:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Freaking hot female soldiers, or so I've observed.
2007-10-21 20:54:07 · answer #6 · answered by voelker_n 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They're not known for anything, let alone best known. If there must be something - blindly following the USA on their quest for WMDs or CGI planes or whatever . . .
2007-10-21 21:16:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
being a fine body of men,,,, as my father said to me when discussing ww2 whenever they sent us to be slaughtered in the name of britian or america they always adressed us as a fine body of men ,,,little johnny continues this tradition
2007-10-21 22:35:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
theit heroic fighting in world war two in new guiena,korean war and vietnam war
2007-10-22 08:44:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting screwed over by the Brits.
2007-10-21 20:55:34 · answer #10 · answered by Jam_Til_Impact 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋