Terry Westerway.....Failed Gunner, Failed Soldier and Know All
Fool
Terry Westerway has a lot to
say
on the
internet.
He
was
a
VVAA
member in an
outer
Sydney
sub
branch
and
maybe
remains so. He was
never
popular
in
the
VVAA and
at
meetings
would sit
alone
while
nobody
bothered with
him.
He
paints
himself as a
former
regular
professional Soldier
of
experience and good
standing, and
as
some sort of
criminal
investigator and
legal
advisor.
If
one falls for his self
congratulations Westerway indeed
is
a
specialist in various areas.
The
truth is
different.
Westerway
is
an
avid
and
strongly vocal
mad galah
member.
This
group
has among
it’s leading
lights
such
questionable figures as
Keith
Joyce,
Barry
Corse,
David
Briggs,
Allen Petersen,
Paul
Dignon, Jim
Wiltshire,
Harry Kirkman, Ted
Colmer and
an
assortment of
others who paint
themselves
as
Veteran
experts,
as protectors of
Veterans
rights and
as a group which
has
much
political,
ESO
and
ADF
influence.
This group
has some
fringe dwellers
who
associate
with it
including
Charlie
Bartkus
and
Neville Tickner.
The
truth about this group is vastly
different
from
what it
paints itself
as. Kirkman
http://www.anzmi.net/kirkman/kirkman.html
has
been
accused
of
being a
fraud by the
ANZMI website
which publicly
exposes
wannabees and
frauds
in the
Veteran
community.
It
is very
sad to
see any
decent Veterans
believe
this group
has the
influence
and principle
it says it
has.
It does
not have any
real
influence and little if any
general
respect.
So far,
without
exception,
each time
the
Military histories of
the
leading lights of this group are
unveiled, we see
former
Soldiers and
Officers
who were
incompetent
discipline
problems, who
were
totally unsuited
to
Military Service
and who have
embellished their
Military
records
to create the
impression they were something
they
were not.
However, when a group such
as this sets
itself up as the
knight
in shining armour of
the Veteran
community,
when it
abuses, badgers,
threatens,
defames and attacks
politicians, other
Veterans,
the
media, ESOs and the
ADF
leadership, it leaves itself and
it’s
members open to deep
scrutiny.
In 2006 this group
published a poster around the
internet
which said KILL
BILLSON
FIRST,
Billson
being
former
DVA
Minister Bruce
Billson.
Westerway was
a
bank
Johnny who served in
the then CMF
[ARES ]
and then
enlisted in
the
Regular
Army. He
served in Artillery
and was a
totally
incompetent
Gunner.
Westerway was
posted to a
Radar Unit
at North
Head. In
Vietnam this unit
operated
radars
and
manned various listening
posts
[LPs
]
around Nui
Dat
and
other
places.
After
discharge
Westerway
did some sort
of
insurance
assessing job, and
now likes
to paint himself
as
somebody who has
criminal
investigation
experience
and
who is
a legal
expert.
Westerway was a
serious
discipline
problem
in
the
Army,
being
charged
with
many
offences whilst
on War Service
[
Active
Service
]
and
during
Peacetime.
War Service offences are
most
serious offences because
during
War
our
fellow
Veterans
need
us
for
protection and
we
must
be
able
to rely on each
other.
He
also found it
difficult
to pass
several basic
Artillery
courses and
eventually he
was
forcefully
discharged
before
his
engagement was
completed as
being
unsuitable
for Military
Service.
It’s true not
all
can be combat
Soldiers, it’s
true we
all
have our
problems in life and
none in
the
Military were perfect,
and
it is true
that all
can't be
experts in Military matters
and skills. It is also true that
there is nothing wrong
with
part
time CMF [ ARES ]
service.
However
there is
something
wrong when
people such as Westerway
pretend they
were
something they
were not, and
mislead their fellow
Veterans and
the community. It
puzzles us
why ex
Service
members do this.
Maybe they
feel
so
inadequate and so
poorly about
their
Military
lives
they
then go
about
trying to
prove
themselves.
Low
self
esteem and
survivor guilt might
be
part of the
reason they behave
the
way
they do.
Westerway has recently had his email address blocked by the Federal Opposition Leader and other Liberal Party politicians, and we commend this action, for it is the only way to treat this pest and fool as he spams email address after email address with his lies, nonsense and stupidity.