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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 6:43:35 AM

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There is at least one thing to make the Marines feel more welcome in Darwin, the local ice hockey team, who are the self-proclaimed undefeated world champions, after all of their opponents have failed to show up, possibly due to the lack of ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Iffu6JrN4

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 8:49:19 AM

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No corporal- you can't bring that rifle in through customs- you'll have to leave it here and pick it up on your way back.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 9:26:40 AM

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Well this Aussie welcomes all the Gi reens as we call em with open arms

darwin is a new, hip town, crawling with nubile young back packers, and certainly not as isolated as you think.
The entire top end is a boom area.

Too many yanks are ignorant that we have fought with you guys in (I think) every war since WW1.
You will get the normal crazies protesting the yanks arriving, quietly, the majority of Aussies know who our best friends are.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 10:37:04 AM

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If you want to make them feel welcome- not calling them yanks would be a good start

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 12:33:05 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: Itdepends

If you want to make them feel welcome- not calling them yanks would be a good start

You cant walk around Darwin with a pineapple up you arse.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 2:19:24 PM

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Too true- in that heat it would chafe something fierce.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 2:27:40 PM

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ORIGINAL: noguaranteeofsanity

There is at least one thing to make the Marines feel more welcome in Darwin, the local ice hockey team, who are the self-proclaimed undefeated world champions, after all of their opponents have failed to show up, possibly due to the lack of ice. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7Iffu6JrN4

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 6:59:11 PM

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I Google Imaged several hundred photos of Darwin yesterday and was surprised to see a tidy, modern, friendly-looking small city.

Uhh... why??? It is Australia.

So is Kalgoorlie.

I spent a week there one afternoon.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 7:06:16 PM

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I spent a week there one afternoon.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 9:28:55 PM

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Darwin...

"The base, the base..is on fire..."

That's about as exciting as it gets.

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RE: Marine redeployment - 4/8/2012 11:47:51 PM

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Darwin and the Northern Territory as a whole is booming.

I read a number of articles in Monocle magazine last month about the boom, the average age in Darwin is now apparently 31. Darwin is becoming a major cultural gateway between the, shall we call it European, southern Australia and then Asia above.

Mining is massive, they even have the phenomenon now where employees are commuting to work by aeroplane - so-called FIFO, "fly in fly out".

They are revamping a casino there with the equivalent of something like $50 million to attract Asian big rollers, they recently built the Darwin Waterfront, all to provide entertainment to the youngsters coming in for work.

But apparently some of the locals who were born there don't like the new influx very much, they feel it's destroying the magic of the Northern Territory, which was the massive, open, sparsely-populated space.

But Australia is becoming a major regional superpower, once they bring the two new "amphibious assault ships" (Landing Dock, Helicopter) into service, it will be the biggest warships ever in the Royal Australian Navy and they'll be able to project serious power in that theatre. Furthermore, they are looking to get 12 additional submarines. The issue is going to be to convince young Australians to crew those ships, though - apparently a high-school dropout can earn AUD 120,000 per year driving a truck at a mine (for which there is a massive demand) but only AUD 40,000 per year serving in the Navy.

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