To highlight the madness ....about 5 years ago I was on a long tour through Oz with a bunch of old rockers who were old enough to know better and in The Rod Laver Stadium in Melbourne, in the bad boys dressing room , that was the one the one with the deep haze hiding the opposite wall , just outside the showers were two signs on the wall.... NO SMOKING and also a small wall mounted bin with a sign saying "used needles in here"

I've never really got my head around that

Hey Jimmy... my stepson did Bhagdad and some unidentified shithole in Afghanistan . He wasn't a very happy boy when he came home from Iraq but he got over it and now he's left the army and doing nicely as a civilian ,thank christ for that . If he'd been hurt over there it would have been all my fault ...I was the one who said to his [very pacifist and anti authoritarian] mother about 15 years ago
" for gods sake let him join the army.... at least he knows what he wants to do "
that was when things were relatively quiet for the oz army .
Paul