{"id":5494,"date":"2025-04-24T11:26:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T01:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/uncategorized\/decades-of-service"},"modified":"2025-04-24T11:50:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T01:50:03","slug":"decades-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/news\/decades-of-service","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on decades of service"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reflections on decades of service<\/h1>\n
\"Redcliffe

Redcliffe Hospital’s Cassady Distel-Rose has served as an Army Reservist for more than 20 years.<\/p><\/div>\n

This Anzac Day, communities across Australia will come together to remember the sacrifice and spirit of the Anzacs, 110 years after the Gallipoli landings.<\/h4>\n

Anzac Day has special significance for Redcliffe Hospital Allied Health Assistant and Army Reservist of more than 20 years, Cassady Distel-Rose.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a bored young man, unsure of my next steps when the military came calling,\u201d Cassady said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad took me to an Army open day, it seemed liked an exciting new experience and I signed up.\u201d<\/p>\n

20-years later and having been awarded a recognition of service Australia Day Medallion by the Department of Defence, Cassady shares his experiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my time serving, I\u2019ve been deployed overseas in peacekeeping capacities and been involved in many domestic operations, including disaster response,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese days I mainly instruct on land combat modules, initial employment training and I am a small arms instructor.\u201d<\/p>\n

His army career has exposed Cassady to the full spectrum of humanity.<\/p>\n

\u201cMateship is the best thing about the Army experience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou bond over experiences that most people will never encounter.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring my time serving, I\u2019ve seen both the best and the very worst of what humans are capable of doing to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cassady is attached to the 9th<\/sup> Battalion, which was the first to arrive on the shores of Gallipoli in 1915, which adds to the solemn nature of Anzac Day for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will start Anzac Day by attending a dawn service,\u201d Cassady said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a day to pay tribute to those who served before us and allowed us to have the freedoms we enjoy in Australia today.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cLater in the day, we will gather, have a few drinks and reflect on those who paid the ultimate sacrifice and are no longer with us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thank you to Cassady for sharing his experiences and to everyone in the Redcliffe Hospital community who has served.<\/p>\n

To the Metro North Health staff who have served and continue to serve, thank you for your commitment and dedication to creating a safer and healthier world for us all.<\/p>\n

To those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in defence of the values and freedoms we hold dear \u2013 Lest We Forget.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Redcliffe Hospital’s Cassady Distel-Rose is a proud Army Reservist and shares what being in the military and Anzac Day mean to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":5495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5502,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5494\/revisions\/5502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metronorth.health.qld.gov.au\/kilcoy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}