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Dust Of Uruzghan – Fred Smith
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In the ring they called me “Warlord”, my mother calls me Paul
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You can call me Private Warren when your filing your report
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As to how I came to be here this is what I understand
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In this hospital in Germany from the Dust of Uruzgan
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I had just turned 28, just bought a new car
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When I joined the first Battalion of the Big One RAR
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We were next up for deployment into south Afghanistan
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To combat the insurgence in the Dust of Uruzgan
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It took seven months of training just to get into the joint
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There were pushups and procedures there was death by power point
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Then the RSOI course in Ali Al Salaam
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But nothing can prepare you for the Dust of Uruzgan
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Me and Benny sat together flying into Kandahar
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Sucked back on our near beers in the Camp Baker Bar
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Then up at 0530 we were on the Herc and out
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Twenty flying minutes we were in to Tarin Kowt
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We shook hands as the boys Ripped out from MRTF one
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And pretty soon were out patrolling in the Afghan summer sun
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Walking through the green zone with a Styer in my hand
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Body armor chafing through the dust of Uruzgan
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We started up near Chora working 14 hours a day
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Mentoring a Kandak from the Afghan 4th brigade
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Down through the Baluchi into eastern Dorafshan
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Working under open skies in the dust of Uruzgan
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It’s a long way from Townsville not like any place you’ll see
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Suddenly you’re walking through from the 14th century
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Women under burkhas, tribal warlords rule a land
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Full of goats, and huts and jingle trucks is the Dust of Uruzgan
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And the Education Minister can neither read nor write
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And Minister for Women runs the knock shop there at night
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They’ve been fighting here forever over water, food and land
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Murdering each other in the dust of Uruzgan
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There’s nothing about this province that’s remotely fair or just
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worse than the corruption is the endless f#*%!ing dust
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Its as fine as talcum powder on the ground and in the air
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And it gets in to your eyes and it gets in to your hair
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And it gets in to your weapon and it gets in to your boots
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When bureaucrats all show up here it gets in to their suits
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It gets in the machinery and foils every plan
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Theres some quite symbolic about the dust of Uruzgan
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Still the people can be gracious and they’re funny and their smart
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And When the children look into your eyes they walk into your heart
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They face each day with courage and each year without a plan
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Beyond scratching for survival in the Dust of Uruzgan
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But the Taliban are ruthless keep the people terrorized
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With roadside bombs and hangings and leaving letters in the night
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And they have no useful vision for the children of this land
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But to keep them praying on their knees in the Dust of Uruzgan
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It was a quiet Saturday morning when the 2 Shop made a call
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On a compound of interest to the east of COP Mashal
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We had some information they were building IED’s
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So we cordoned and we searched it in accord with SOPs
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I was on the west flank picket, propped there with Ben
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there to keep a watchful eye out while the other blokes went in
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We looked for signs of danger from the TTPs we’d learned
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But the Nationals were moving back and forth without concern
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We’d been standing still for hours when I took a quick step back
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Kicked a small AP mine, and everything went black
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Woke up on a gurney flat out on my back
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had to ask them seven times just to get the facts
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That I lived to tell the story through a simple twist of fate
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The main charge lay ten feet away from the pressure plate
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You see the mine was linked by det chord to a big charge laid by hand
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Hidden there under Benny by the Dust of Uruzgan
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I was a Queensland Champ Thai Boxer now I look south of my knee
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And all I see is bed sheets were my right foot used to be
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Benny’s dead and buried underneath Australian sand
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But his spirits out their wandering through the Dust, the Dust of Uruzgan
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Now I’m going back to Townsville it’s the city of my birth
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Some go back to Ballarat and some go back to Perth
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I’ll be living with my mother who’s still trying to understand
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Why we’re spending blood and treasure in the Dust, the dust of Uruzgan
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