NATIONAL, April 6, 2010: As a 21-year-old, Ric Johnstone drove 240km daily across the scorching vastness of the Australian outback to work. A motor mechanic in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), he spent 1956 servicing military vehicles in the Great Victorian Desert.
He lived with 300 other men in a tent town, eating dinners of bully beef with the occasional vegetable.
Johnstone described his first six months as similar to being a prisoner in a chain gang: "There was no church, no women, no entertainment, nothing."
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