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Department of Veteran Affairs get $11.5bn a year yet you can t even get a phone call 21/05/2021|12min
Retired Special Forces Commander Heston Russell has opened up about his own personal experiences and struggles following his service in the armed forces and the system s failure to support him. On paper, you look at $11.5 billion each financial year to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and yet you can t even get a phone call for three months, he said. The only thing that brought me back from that abyss was what inspired me during my service, that purpose that is my team and those around me, and those that have really been struggling in our veterans community.
Our ADF personnel performed ‘magnificently’ in Afghanistan: Heston Russell18/04/2021|8min
Retired Special Forces Commander Heston Russell says one of the biggest strategic failings of Afghanistan now as the war comes to a close was not taking the Australian public on “the narrative of what actually happened”.
Australia is set to withdraw all remaining troops from Afghanistan by the 20-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre.
“Our Australian Defence Force personnel performed magnificently, and what we did at our level was fantastic,” Mr Russell told Sky News host Paul Murray.
“As a special operations task group alone, we removed 11,000 insurgents from the battle space, and we are now discussing 25 alleged murders in the Brereton Report”.