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Laugh-out-loud yarns from a solider in the New Zealand Army

For Dario Nustrini, joining the New Zealand Army straight out of high school was like running away to join the circus. These are his stories, mishaps and misadventures from inside the circus.

From press-ups with a corporal screaming in his ear to sneaking a ciggie before the next drill, always carrying peanut butter in his pocket, secretly harbouring a pet parrot, sinking 4 jugs at the officers bar and clumsily chasing exotic women on a European deployment, Nothing Significant to Report charts Darios colourful but uneventful six years in the military. Will he ever get sent on a serious mission? And if he does, will he like it?

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Laugh-out-loud yarns from a soldier in the New Zealand Army

When new recruit Dario Nustrinis head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight, kill and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving leaving high school the year before, he had been on a steady diet of spliffs, Speights and the occasional sandwich from the cafe he worked at as a waiter. He weighed about as much as an empty pillowcase, with slightly less insulation from the cold.

Nothing Significant to Report is the brilliantly entertaining and unvarnished truth of what life is like in the New Zealand Army. From back-breaking exercises designed to make recruits spit the dummy to roleplaying in an SAS manhunt and accidentally starting a rubbish fire in a military compound, these are self-deprecating tales of misfits, mischief and camaraderie.

When Dario is deployed to war-torn Iraq, what will he think of the role he has spent five years preparing for?

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Nothing Significant To Report

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