{"id":446,"date":"2026-01-28T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/?page_id=446"},"modified":"2026-01-28T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T11:55:32","slug":"welcome-to-holiday-camp-kapooka","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/?page_id=446","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Holiday Camp Kapooka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Jan-8-2026-06_56_22-PM-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-453\" style=\"width:319px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Jan-8-2026-06_56_22-PM-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Jan-8-2026-06_56_22-PM-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Jan-8-2026-06_56_22-PM-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ChatGPT-Image-Jan-8-2026-06_56_22-PM.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">About <\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Holiday Camp Kapooka<\/em> is a first-person account of Australian military training and the institutional failures that followed. It documents what happens when obedience is prioritised over wellbeing, and silence is treated as strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written from inside the system, this book traces the lived reality of training culture, psychological harm, and the long shadow that service can cast. It draws on memory, personal experience, and official records to show how damage is normalised, dismissed, and carried forward long after discharge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not a political argument or a retrospective critique written at a safe distance. It is testimony. It records what happened, how it was handled, and what remained when the uniform came off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story does not end with service. It follows the aftermath, moral injury, fractured identity, and the effort required to survive in a world that expects you to move on quietly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Holiday Camp Kapooka<\/em> is written for veterans, families, and anyone who wants to understand the human cost behind institutions that demand compliance without accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not comfortable reading.<br>It is an honest record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Holiday Camp Kapooka is a first-person account of Australian military training and the institutional failures that followed. It documents what happens when obedience is prioritised over wellbeing, and silence is treated as strength. Written from inside the system, this book traces the lived reality of training culture, psychological harm, and the long shadow that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/?page_id=446\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome to Holiday Camp Kapooka&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-446","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/446\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kcvice.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}