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What is this all about?

In 1998 we had a 50 years of the ATS celebration and reunion. ATS is of course the Apprentice Training Scheme; it started when DSTO was WRE.
Now as a part of the celebrations someone suggested collecting stories and anecdotes about our time there. I read one of the first submissions, when it was posted on the web site, and thought to my self ….hey I can do that.
Well I could, and I did. Maybe I over did.
Whatever, I wrote a bunch of stories [more than all the rest of the contributors combined], some about the ATS and others about times not long after.
There is a general thread of apprentice things running thro it all. These stories sat on the ATS website until one day some one [and most of us know who] decided that it either reflected poorly on DSTO or he wasn’t mentioned. Whatever, anyway this person of importance had the site and of course my endeavors, removed. Like the whole world was reading it? Oh yeah.
Hey dude....we are back. & there ain't thing #1 you can do about it!!!!
I should point out that these tales all relate to either my time as an apprentice [62-66] or my earlier days at DSTO. Things have changed a lot since then.
DSTO now bears no resemblance at all the place I wrote about. That is a great pity.
I may have, in my recalling, taken a few liberties with some of the finer details. In the big picture though, this is what I thought happened. Just for convenience I have now done these tales up into little packages. They are otherwise just as I submitted them.