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Troy Methorst  joined the Australian army as an 18 year old and was deployed off shore at the very young age of 19 to East Timor. Troy, thanks for your service. But I guess given your dad was in Vietnam, he didn't have much choice.

Well, funny enough, my mum, mom and dad didn't really, I wouldn't say, um, countable made to that, but there was always a lot of, um, T3 in the family and whether that was just in my awareness, I just felt drawn to it from probably from really young age. So I think I'll one, all right, where I started to have like visions and dreams of joining the defense force. So, um, I was pretty keen, always running around the backyard, playing army and whatever. So I just had to send some, knowing that that was going to be where when my, my, my boss took me,

You can sort of understand why mum wouldn't be keen. I mean, she would have had to go through a fair bit with your dad when he was offshore in Vietnam,

And they're still still going through this stuff, the Vietnam era, um, you know, they, they suffered pretty heavily coming home and being, you know, that's the word I was looking for vilified. And it took a lot of Vietnam veterans to reach out for help. Um, so I, you know, in doing star, a lot of them suffered quite heavily what for them to take in. So I'm very thankful that the Vietnam veterans did the work that they did and the wife, um, rehabilitation for veterans.

So he was in, uh, the engineer Corps, uh, caught the third field trip like yourself ended up in and he was, you told me one of the, the tunnel rats. Uh, I went up to Vietnam on a holiday and I went into some of those Vietcong tunnels, uh, in South Vietnam. I couldn't get out of there quick enough. I mean, that's pretty bribe work, working underground, doing that sort of stuff. 

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