Talk:Conscription in Australia

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conscripts in ww2 were called chocolate soldiers because they were expected to "melt" in any serious combat

[edit] National service in Vietnam

I am stunned by the glaring errors of fact in this section:

1. National Servicemen had no choice about serving in Vietnam. Ask Normie Rowe or any of the thousands of others who were forced to serve there, or any of the families of hundreds who were killed. What a crock!

2. "most of whom were married" -- wild, unsupported assertion. What's your source?

3. How could 20 year old conscripts (???) have been "older and more mature" than the Australian Army professionals? Jeez ...

This section needs a DRASTIC rewrite replacing this rubbish with factual information.

Ok, fair points on your part. I haven't read the old version, but I believe point 1 is actually true. IIRC you were forced to do the national service, but unofficially if you didn't want to go to Vietnam you were given a position elsewhere whenever possible. This was totally unofficial, and totally the military acting without political endorsement. And sure, there may be factual errors, but you don't have to be an ass when telling people about it. At least someone went out of their way to write the article in the first place. The Bryce 11:04, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Discuss links here

Editors regularly clean out undiscussed links from this article. Please discuss here if you want a link not to be cleaned out regularly. (You can help!)--VS ^talk 04:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

VS ^talk has removed an external link to a website which I administer. I believe the link is a relevant citation to this article. I acknowledge as an editor of this article, this is potentially a conflict of interest.

Australian Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War

is an original source reference for the development of the section on conscription during the Vietnam War. I believe this link is highly relevant to the article. Under Wikipedia:Conflict of interest guideline I should not add external links to articles I have published (even though they may be authoritative texts) except after raising them for discussion on the talk page. Please discuss and decide on the relevancy of the link. --Takver 17:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)