AUSTRALIAN MILITARY Biography –
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- Indebted’ gives a unique insight into jungle warfare during the Vietnam conflict and training and culture in the Australian Army, paricularly the Special Air Service.
- Foreword by General Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd).
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- iv, 240 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm #151125
- Signed by Author (and inscription)
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- Moyle, Colin
- Australia. Army. Special Air Service Regiment — Biography
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 — Personal narratives, Australian
- Military biography — Australia
- Soldiers — Australia — Biography
- Soldiers — Training of — Australia
- Australian
- If it seems unusual for such a high-ranking officer to write a foreword to a very personal account of one man’s military life, it is easily explained by the fact that Cosgrove still remembers the young, inexperienced reinforcement he welcomed into his ranks when he was a platoon commander in Vietnam. In fact Moyle is mentioned by name in Cosgrove’s own memoir, My Story.
Col Moyle began his Australian Army career in 1969. He came from the wild west coast of Tasmania, where his family owned a hotel, and was educated in Hobart at The Friends’ School run by the Quakers, an unlikely breeding ground for a future SAS recruit.
The book is largely about his Vietnam service – covering eighteen months in the period 1969-1971 and about the rigorous selection process and training for the SAS, where he served the remainder of his regular army service up to 1993.
From 1993 to 2015, he served with both the Commandos and the SAS as a reservist, until he reached his ‘use by’ date at age 65.
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