Yahoo!7
January 12, 2012, 5:27 pm
Diggers sent back to Afghanistan
Families of Australian soldiers sent back to Afghanistan after being arrested for drinking in Dubai are heartbroken, 7News exclusively reports.
Eight soldiers had reportedly been serving on the Afghanistan frontline against the Taliban and were on their back to family and friends in Australia.
But their homecoming celebrations never eventuated, due to a Dubai stopover that found them arrested for drinking in an Islamic country that is strict on alcohol.
7News say the soldiers are a part of a battle-hardened 2nd battalion, Royal Australian Regiment based in Townsville that lost Private Matthew Lambert killed by a roadside bomb last August.
Families of the group of soldiers say they were upset to discover they had been returned to Tarin Kot in Afghanistan to be charged with misbehavior.
"A couple of these families were booked in for international holidays, so they’ve lost them."
"One family was ready to sign a contract on a house, now he can't get back to sign that contract, they may lose that." Steve Weight, a relative of a soldier returned to Tarin Kowt.
"Well we saw how the guys were treated when they got back from 'Nam – have we learned nothing?" Weight told 7News.
Don Rowe from the RSL says that charges against the soldiers could have alternatively been brought against the soldiers in Australia.
"You don't blame the guys for having a couple of drinks after what they they’ve been through on active duty and active service." Rowe told 7News.
216 Comments
kim06:
47pm Thursday 12th January 2012
Totally unfair treatment............
mick c
06:48pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
Having a beer is Australian, and these men certainly deserved that. They should be home with their families, they have done their bit.
mick c
06:48pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
Having a beer is Australian, and these men certainly deserved that. They should be home with their families, they have done their bit.
RG Menzies
06:54pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
a petty punishment , who dobbed them in
d
06:54pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
and yesterday yahoo7 implied that the defence forces are soft on discipline.
Rick
06:56pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
That is totally ridiculous!!! How many potential soldiers might have changed their minds just from this news. Look after these diggers and stop punishing family of these soldiers.
Andrew
06:57pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
poor @#$%, just for having a beer, bloody hell. UNFAIR MATE!
navylad
06:58pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
The Army Generals havemt learnt a @#$% thing on how to look after their troops since the first world war. This IS @#$% and whoever is responsible should be ashamed of themselves how unAustralian. No wonder enlistments are down, and people are leaving the ADF
Preety
06:58pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
They should have thought before going against law in a foreign country. They will remember to be culturally aware and sensitive from now on.Comment hidden due to its low rating. Show
harry
06:59pm Thursday 12th January 2012 EST
Another creative idiotic bureaucratic solution with no basis in wisdom and no chance of gaining the good will of those involved, or of their families. Australia is blighted with idiotcrats after a long long period of bully like mafia of labor and the unions, with little pigs bullying into jobs they are unfit for and then pushing around the workers and capable people. Name the fool who made this decision, audit their immaturity and incompetence and start making examples of them instead
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