"The best thing about conflicts like that or any conflict in general is your mates that you're there with. They're the ones that make you laugh. They're the ones that your whole day revolves around. You set a practical joke up all around some guy and at the end you all laugh together even though things are so grim or bad. To me that's what it's about just the whole mateship and camaraderie. I don't really know if you find that anywhere else which is why you know it's referred to for myself as the Anzacs you know because that's where it originally was shown but before that also in the Boer War."

PRIVATE CRAIG THRUPP, INTERFET, EAST TIMOR