The Australian Government has much to answer for when a brave Young Digger is less afraid to sleep 'outside the wire' in the dangerous reaches of Uruzgan Province in Afghanistan, than he is in his own Nation.
Even if you view the treatment and actions of the Australian Government, and by proxy the ADF, from a completely economical rationalist view, we permit them to literally spend millions of dollars training, arming, kitting out, housing, paying and deploying each individual Young Digger.
Each one of our amazing young people, we colloquially refer to as 'Young Diggers' represents a MASSIVE FINANCIAL investment by Australian tax payers. Yet to the Australian Government, and by proxy the ADF, these assets are merely disposable inanimate objects, literally cannon fodder for the ADF bosses. Also remember these young men and women are human beings who are integral parts of their own families, who are valued and loved beyond anything that can be equated in financial terms.
Everyone of us should be DEMANDING URGENTLY that our Young Diggers are protected, cared for and honoured as the valuable human beings they are, and that this protection, care and honour MUST commence immediately.
My heart goes out to the hundreds and thousands of Young Diggers whose lives were lost in Wars over the history of the ADF, my heart also goes out to the families who suffered the tragic loss of their valued, loved and irreplaceable, sons & daughters who've taken their on lives as a result of the Australian Governments complete failure in their Duty of Care to these much loved Young Diggers.
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