Dunny Issues
By George "Pills" Parker, 110
Sig Sqn, South Vietnam
(3 Dec 1968 - 10 Dec 1969)
110 Sig Sqn
Sgt Mess Dunny with a View (left side). Note the pisser phone
in use! Sgt Mess (right side).
Well if you were standing
outside of the 110 Sig Sqn, Sgts Mess at 1ALSG, Vung Tau, early
1969, then you would of heard me brief the unit Sig Blowfly, who was
a thick as a piece of chalk. I told him that the
dunny needed a good slow burn out and explained to him the
ingredients, 1 in 4, that is, one measure of petrol (or range fuel)
and four measures of diesel, and yes he got the ingredients
vice/versa. The eruption was a dream for an avid photographer as Sig
Blowfly returned an hour later after a good soaking in shit!
He was always wary when lighting the dunnies, and he threw a match
at the dunny hole from the door and no ignition, he got closer and
threw another match in, and still no ignition, and then he stood
over the hole and dropped the next match in and the ingredients
began to ignite, and the dunny began to shudder.
Sig Blowfly came screaming out of the door of the dunny, like a
startled gazelle, with look of fear on his face. For
three seconds the dunny shuddered and rocked and rolled, and Sig
Blowfly was running on the spot, the power cables to the dunny began
writher like a snake, the dunny floor began to lift and shudder like
a 6.8 earthquake ---and WHOOSH, the whole contents of the hole
splattered everywhere and the top of the dunny seat chased Sig
Blowfly away from the exploding installation. We had
to get the 1ALSG fire truck out to hose the dunny remains down.
110 Sig Sqn six seater dunny under
re-contruction in 1ALSG, Vung Tau, 1969
The ORs dunny also had drama
about the same time, as the same Sig Blowfly blew it up a couple of
times. They had it replaced with a new 12 seater, which was only
held down by concrete nails. Over that short period of
time with the sea breezes, the frame became loose. Six blokes
were enjoying their morning tea hard hits, when a great gust of wind
came along, and the whole dunny roof and frame 'blasted off' like at
Cape Canaveral and ended up down in the gully near the MPs.
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