I joined the Australian Army Reserve as an infantryman in Perth, Western Australia in '91. I've lived in Perth ever since. The most likely nuke targets in this part of the world, Garden Island Naval Base/Kwinana Refinery to the south and Pearce Airforce Base to the north, are both far enough from the suburbs where I've lived that I would have survived the strikes. Who knows if I'd have survived the ensuing chaos though.
By '96 I was no longer a reservist, but ex-regulars and ex-reservists are the first to be pulled back in when there's a war, so I might have ended up in an infantry battalion being sent off to one of the theatres Australia was active in during the Twilight War. By then I'd suffered some pretty significant injuries in a motorcycle crash though, so if I had been found medically fit to serve, I doubt they'd have put me back in the infantry.
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