I was reading your story about the hitchhiker in Australia when it reminded me of my own experience there. It was 1976 and we had just finished operation
Kangaroo II and the ship that I was on went to Brisbane for a little R & R. Another Marine and I were walking into town when a married couple picked us up.
He was in the Austrailian Army Medical Corps. The couple took us to their apartment and treated us like family. For the entire week that we were there they took us
around Brisbane, showed us all the sites, made us homemade meals. After the week in Brisbane the ship I was on got lucky and we went north to another
town called Cairns also in Austraila. When the people there found out that we were US Marines they treated us like friends. If is wasn't for the Marine Corps i would
have never been able to see the parts of the world that I did.
Semper Fi
Cpl Terry Hewitt USMC