John Howard and the Gap Year

[Razer2036]

you're so retarted. It's the best, and how do you think we can protect and defend our nation if fuckheads like you always go on about how fucked it is and how dangerous it is. Have some respect for service people please!

[schmmity13]

This video is a fucking joke! I was in the last RAAF Gap year in 2010. It was the best experience of my life, and Im a better person from the training and experiences i got in it!

Your not even worthy to lick the boots of our serving men and women

[Nillani91]

shut your face asshole, the ADF gap year was the best thing I've ever done. If more kids did that when they finished school, this world would be a better place.

[napster745]

I think the gap year program is a great oppurtunity for all young people intersted in a career in the ADF.

[DukeLuke8238]

our society isn't Americanised you just believe to bitch about something and the when doing the gap year in the military you are not sent to conflicts i may be wrong but i am pretty sure i am right

[ConfusedLostSouls]

Yeah I think they said you wouldn;t be sent to conflicts because there isn't sufficient time to be both trained and and complete a deployment assignment. Someone also told me that they give you a velvet glove treatment in the GAP year and remember the aim is to encourage enlistment so chance of deployment would be very low.

[dpcree]

I hate howard but i'm doing the gap year so that i can actually get money for university.

Gotta love our americanised society

[kodaknige]

You make me sick! You r stuffed up.

hundreds of thousands of men and women have lost their live to protect our soil. and this is how you thank them? I hope u dont plan to make much of urself with a video like that around.

[thezeppo929]

here here

2 years till i take the gap year can't wait

[ChoofMonster]

This has to be Howard & Co's dumbest idea since the GST.

Schapelle Corby has more chance of returning unscathed than a 'gap-year' goon with a gun.

[ChoofMonster]

I didn't say that Corby was innocent (not that I have any faith whatsoever in the Indonesian "justice" system).

We already have a well-trained, well-paid, world-class defense force which could potentially be watered down if it recruits people who are in it for the thrill or the money (or lack of decent employment opportunities).

[ChoofMonster]

With coercion to join, there will be few calculated risk-takers (mostly those who intended to serve anyway). Howard was not looking for career military people, this would have been an easy way to improve social security figures.

The US is recruiting ex-criminals, foreign nationals and people with known psychiatric disorders into its army just to make up numbers; we don't need that here.

[ChoofMonster]

For those who do sign up for four years, there is the incentive of a fully-paid tertiary education. A one-year trial is a good idea for those who are unsure, but this opportunity already existed when Howard made the suggestion.

[ChoofMonster]

I have nothing against the Australian military, or people signing up in times of conflict. The ADF is better at weeding out unsuitable candidates than the US military, but part of Howard's agenda was closer ties to the US on all levels (he did fix the economy).

Since WWII, America has been involved in conflicts (both directly and by proxy) which were ultimately unnecessary (Korea, ietnam, Cambodia etc); this did not end with the Cold War.

[Sweiundzwanzig]

i might do this..

[grantyaus]

Worst Propaganda ever.

[lurenceo]

u talk SHIT bitch

[MercurialTorpor]

Your video highlights a sickening phenomenon. Notice how bellicose, war-mongering politicians and their followers have never seen war from the pointy end. Those who have, absolutely detest it. Does anyone believe these reprobates would be so keen on war if they were actually in it? The worst kind of cowardly hypocrite is Howard and his coterie. I especially agree with your end message.

[freedrhaneef]

Short term job

[SilverRevolution]

Fuck yeah

p.s. Why was Corby in there?