00:11As good facilitators, we've already tested the water, we made sure it's nice and cold,
00:15we dumped some ice further up there for you, so you guys are going to get the best experience
00:19for today.
00:22Good job!
00:25Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:28Very carefully.
00:30Oh, we're going.
00:31We're going to flip.
00:36Just take one little flip to aim for my foot.
00:41It's hot!
00:52Yes, please!
01:01Sit back!
01:03Just sit back!
01:04Yes!
01:05Woo!
01:06Make a prize!
01:07One, two, three, two, three!
01:12Oh, it's hot!
01:15What?
01:15What?
01:15Well done, Lynn!
01:16He's on your one!
01:21Oh!
01:29Oh!
01:29Oh!
01:29Yesss!
01:32Yay!
01:39Congratulations, dude!
01:40You can't do it!
02:05It's pressure down here!
02:10This is my brother Mike!
02:18Rock, rock, rock, rock!
02:24Don't get wet!
02:25I said don't get wet!
02:29I said don't get wet!
02:30You got wet?
02:38I'm going to take a look at it.
03:02I'm going to get you.
03:04I'm going to get you.
03:05Hey there.
03:06It's fine.
03:08It's good.
03:09Good.
03:10Good.
03:12Good.
03:13Good.
03:14Good.
03:15Good.
03:19Good.
03:24Good.
03:25Good.
03:39This is Hennheiser.
04:05there's a way of giving back to those that have served so it's just something that we can do to
04:09just say once you're part of our family you're still part of our family and we still care
04:12oh i'm proud like this has been taken from an idea that i pitched almost a year ago and has
04:18been
04:18seen into fruition and the second serial that we've done so the first one last year and today
04:23is the second serial we've seen almost 100 increase in participant numbers so word's getting around
04:28people are excited for what we are offering and it's clearly got the intent to grow we live in a
04:33beautiful part of australia which is heavily influenced by the seasons so before it gets too
04:38cold we're going to do some more roping activities we've done two series of going down so the next
04:43one we're going to go up and do some climbing the ones after that we're going to go do some
04:47activities in the snow and then when it starts to warm up again we're going to do some water
04:51activities and finish off with some more roping many of our veterans will have done adventurous
04:56training during their time in service so this is something that they can rekindle memories that they
05:01have either suppressed or just simply forgotten and it also puts everybody in the leveling field
05:06regardless of how old you are or how young you are everybody gets a leveling experience of feeling
05:11the stress and having the exact same sense of accomplishment from achieving something that not
05:15many people get to do so i'm not great with heights um but stacy convinced me to you know give
05:23it a go
05:23and it was good it was really worthwhile nothing i guess nothing good comes from you know doing the easy
05:29taking the easy road it's good to interact with current serving people and veterans
05:34um there's that common i don't know common thread that they have um and we all tend to get along
05:41pretty pretty well pretty easily and um yeah no it's good to do something out of your comfort zone
05:47with those people as someone with ptsd you know there can be a lot going on in your head
05:52but when you're doing this kind of stuff um your brain i guess it gets pretty quiet uh and it's
05:59more
05:59task oriented so you don't have to you know you're more in the moment than than in your head initially
06:06when i left i was medically discharged and i guess i didn't want to um discharge so there was that
06:14i don't know resentment i guess initially when i discharged i disconnected completely from um you
06:21know people in the army from the rsl i didn't want to have anything to do with it but slowly
06:27through
06:27you know stuff like this um i'm reconnecting i'm involved with rsl as well so um there's a young
06:36group starting to come through which is good so we can reconnect i think it would benefit um veterans
06:42and probably those transitioning out as well being in the adf is a lifestyle and when you leave that
06:49lifestyle it can be very isolating so it's good to reconnect with people i was an electronics technician
06:54so i did some training locally here um then i posted around a few different places spent most of my
07:00time in darland working on as labs and other armed vehicles um deployed twice to iraq and i finished up
07:09as a recruiting instructor at kapika i guess it pushes you outside of your comfort zone but that's good
07:14today's exercise second watch and the purpose of today is to get veterans back connected in with their
07:19community through activities that are outdoors and to use the relationship between wodonga rsl and army
07:27logistics training center to be able to give activities for veterans to partake in our veteran
07:32community often isn't able to engage in activities that are similar to their service life so getting
07:36them back out in the outdoors giving them an opportunity to do activities like this means that they can do
07:41things that might be akin to their service which allows them to feel reconnected with their service
07:46life but also with each other as veterans it's really good to be part of it um it's a privilege
07:50to be here both as a veteran but also as a member of the ex-service organization of the rsl
07:56so being able to be here just it's it's great it's exciting i feel really proud of what we've achieved
08:00here as an organization and that hand in glove relationship with the adf so yeah i feel really proud
08:06and excited to be here i think these sort of programs are crucial there's not a lot of opportunities
08:10for veterans to reconnect with one another having programs such as this and activities such as this
08:14allows them to reconnect i think community is key and often the veteran community finds themselves
08:19scattered and this is an opportunity to bring them back together being able to take it to a state
08:23level means that we can capture more and more veterans who may not know that this activity is
08:27here but also may not know where to go in times of trouble or when things are difficult for them
08:32so having an activity such as this allows us to reconnect back together and bring our veteran
08:37community to a space where they're able to feel like they are having something that might be
08:41similar to the times that they have when they're in service when you leave service life there is no
08:46rolodex of you know where to find your mate so it's really crucial to have activities such as this
08:50it allows people to know that there is opportunities to come back together especially those that might
08:54feel a little bit disconnected or disenfranchised and it puts a positive spin back on things that you
08:59know when veterans do come back into this space and it is connecting and it is a shared environment it
09:04allows
09:04for us to have a positive re-engagement with the veterans who may not have had the best experience when
09:08they left the adf
09:09it's a grant that we've applied for as wodonga rsl to be able to facilitate more activities
09:14unfortunately the grant process is very slow so at this stage it's still in the preliminary stages
09:19the next steps is to find out whether or not it's progressed and then from there hopefully at
09:23some stage in 2026 we'll have additional funding to be able to support this activity going forward
09:28and expand it from here so it can go out further afield and potentially to a state level
09:32i'm not afraid to admit i got a little teary because i'm i am super proud of what we've achieved
09:37to be part of this to not only be part of the team that's organized it and put it together
09:42but to
09:42actually get to partake as well you can't if i could bottle the feeling i would and if i could
09:47spread it around more i would and that's the aim of from the army logistics training census team and
09:52and wodonga rsl is to bottle it and spread it because it's if there isn't anything else like this
09:57at all that's on offer that i'm aware of for the veteran community
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