Greg Carter: Cockatoo Rise Veterans’ Retreat
Posted on: Mon 28 Jan 2019
Veterans travelling from all over Australia are discovering a welcoming stop-over at Cockatoo Rise Veterans’ Retreat, a 50 acre property located in the beautiful East Gippsland area of Victoria. It’s a place to relax, unwind and recuperate if needed. Run by Greg and Anne Carter, this incredible place is run on a shoestring, but still manages to work wonders. Greg tells us how listeners can assist to ensure the continuance of Cockatoo Rise. He’s a person with a great belief in a positive mental attitude, and this is clearly reflected in his excellent interview.
Interviewer Helen Meyer
All photos provided by Greg Carter and used with permission. The first 3 photos were all taken at Cockatoo Rise Retreat, Victoria.
Greg Carter aged 19 at Puckapunyal Victoria
Greg Carter… he’d been on operation at a fire support base 20 clicks from NUI DAT Vietnam for about a month . Had not showered in that time and was wearing the same set of greens . After a few days at the start of the monsoon season we established that it would torrential rain about 1600 hrs each day , we decided to erect a make shift bath from plastic around ammo boxes . Caught the water and took turns to have a dip , I was 5th up as you can see the water is a tad dirty , then we toweled down and got back into our wet muddy greens for another 2 weeks .
Greg Carter with a Vietnamese child who troops had befriended at a US fire support base
This broadcast was made with assistance from The Community Broadcasting Foundation
