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Points: 5321 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote emz Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 June 2008 at 11:38pm
Becks - Waiouru (well most of the NI actually cos the SI doesn't matter apparently) was done first. They have just put carpet down in Burnham. We were lucky in that we had a reasonably good house usually left for higher ranks but it was the only one free at the time so we got it. Glad we got out of there.

I really think it helps having kids with the socialising thing. I never really spoke to anyone as they were all a bunch of snobby tarts because my DH had only been in 5 years and I was only 19/20 at the time. One piece of advise - the rank and the army attitude is not left at the gate, it follows you home. I'm sure Waiouru will be fine cos its such a small community people make it work.
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I know all about the rank thing not being left at the gate. Nigel's cousin has just left after being a StfSgt and was helping a guy move onto Linton into the housing area there and they had to move the truck a certain way to get it onto the driveway so that they could reach the door and this woman came running out of her house as they had left tire marks on her grass. She had a full on go at Neil and then asked who he was. And he just said his rank and name and told her to get her husband to come over to his work and they would get it fixed up. Her husband was a private and felt real stink after having a go at him, cos of the whole rank thing.

I am hoping it will be ok for us up there, I have been told from so many people now that rank means everything , to me I don't really care.
I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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