The Commando: The Life and Death of Cameron Baird $6.06 + Delivery ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) @ Amazon AU

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I could not believe my eyes when I saw Amazon are selling the hard copy of this book for a whopping $6.06.

This book is a memoir which details the extraordinary life and unfortunate death of the late Cameron Baird. Its a fascinating read at the very least and has been well received.

God bless our troops who are wiling to put their lives on the line for this great country

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  rizza on 17/11/2020 - 11:56

  He is a relative of an old friend of mine.

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    Frunk on 17/11/2020 - 12:10

    He's also a direct descendant of Frankish King Charlemagne.

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  itsHughesy on 17/11/2020 - 12:20

  Thank you.

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  [Deactivated] on 17/11/2020 - 12:36

  Cheers OP

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  UFO on 17/11/2020 - 12:40

  +5

  It's good to see a positive story on the ADF. They've been getting smashed lately with some OS missions involving unlawful killings, and a lot of fine people getting unfairly tarnished with that the same brush.

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    revmacca on 17/11/2020 - 12:48

    +2

    It dosnt look good for the special forces, hopefully the review will look at higher ranks behaviours as well, not throw a few lower ranks to the wolves and move on!!

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      kierann on 17/11/2020 - 15:35

      Have a look at The Yamashita standard…

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  revmacca on 17/11/2020 - 12:46

  +2

  Looks a good read, if you’re into this kind of book, Lofty Large has several books detailing various parts of his military service, my favourite was one mans war in Korea, covers the battle of the imjin river, his injuries and treatment while a POW and rehabilitation into the newly reformed SAS.

  Not sure most western democracy’s (I’m including Aus in this group) deploy troops to defend the home country, more to further geopolitical interests i.e influence, resources.

  Politics [off]

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    itsHughesy on 17/11/2020 - 13:16

    Interesting suggestion, I haven't read any books about Korea, I'll check it out

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  kirt on 17/11/2020 - 16:00

  +2

  Cheers OP ;)

  I read Mark Donaldson's "The Crossroad" recently - it's worth a look too.

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  findingbargains on 18/11/2020 - 01:07

  +1

  "God bless our troops who are wiling to put their lives on the line for this great country"
  Is that so? The last time I checked they were always fighting on foreign soil, somebody else's wars, none of which, apart from WWI/WWII, posed a direct threat to our country. Vietnam, IRAQ 1, IRAQ 2 (wmds anyone?), Afghanistan etc. Face it: our troops are being sacrificed and prostituted fighting imperialist wars for the benefit and enrichment of elites.

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    Ben Kenobi on 18/11/2020 - 07:54

    Maybe that's to ensure you continue to enjoy the freedoms we have in the West? Try standing up in Red Square or Tiananmen Square and disagreeing with government policy…you would be 'disappeared' quickly.

    All political systems come with jackboots…I'd much rather live under a democratic jackboot than a communist jackboot.

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      findingbargains on 18/11/2020 - 13:28

      You are engaging in false equivalence. I suspect you have some direct or family military connections so you are blinkered in your views - apologies if that is not correct. If true, this conversation will be like arguing with some religious zealots - a waste of time. None of the wars in the last 30+ years had anything to do with our freedoms as our freedom was not actually threatened by anyone we went to fight with. The fact that you don't have free speech in China or Soviet Russia, has nothing to do with us. On the other hand, if anything, our freedoms were curtailed even more in the last 10-20 years under false pretenses. Are you not aware of secret trials in Canberra and laws that gag journalists from what they are able to write? You call that freedom? What world do you live in? We are hurtling ever closer to authoritarianism and fascism in the western world than ever. The signs are there but you need to remove the blinkers to be able to see them. Generally that requires some life experience and ability for critical / analytic thinking. In any case I'd rather not live under any jackboot, thank you very much. That is very much possible to achieve but not by turning a blind eye and tacitly condoning the dirty deeds done in our name. Is it not one of the benefits of democracy that we are supposed to be able to call out and protest things that are not right? In the context of this conversation it means questioning our involvement in bloody wars that are serving to entrench the domination of "western" corporations at the expense of other sovereign countries that we use as our bloody playgrounds (especially if there is oil or natural resources to be found or otherwise used as convenient pawns to wage proxy wars with Russia). Special investigation currently being established (finally!) by the government to investigate and prosecute Australian Special Forces for war crimes is just a symptom of entitlement and imagined superiority that our troops have which arises when you fight for wrong reasons and have no respect for other people. I take it that is OK with you, as long as you convince yourself and justify it by imagining that they are "fighting for our freedoms". Well they are not mate. For the record, I respect and feel sorry for all the true heroes who have fallen in wars where they were genuinely defending our freedoms and fighting for our respective countries in WW1 and WW2. I have people like that in my family tree. They must be spinning in their graves when they see what type of conflicts we send our troops into and under what pretenses.

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    buwa99 on 18/11/2020 - 13:39

    +1

    When citizens protest in the streets and the government still sends our troops to war it makes you ask what is really going on.

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    aussiekid on 19/11/2020 - 01:23

    "God bless our troops"

    Please leave that Americanisation BS off here, none of our troops like that shit.