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Submitted to Contest #4
MY GENERATIONNasho's, that what they called us, or Conscripts, referring of course to National Servicemen, and the fact that we were not volunteers, but had been conscripted into the Army, to increase the numbers. On the 5th of November 1964 Cabinet decided to introduce a selective National Service scheme. The government had concluded that Australia had inadequate Defence manpower and aimed to increase the strength of the Army to 33,000 by the end of 1966.Between 1965 and December 1972, over 800,000 men were required to register for National...
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