My name is Steve Danaher, and I enlisted in the ARA(S) on 16 Feb 1977; after completing initial training, I was allocated to RASigs. I served in 2 Sig Regt and 152 Sig Sqn SASR and took my discharge in 1983 in Perth. However, I realised that adjusting to civilian life was challenging, so I re-enlisted in September of the same year, returned to the SASR, and remained with the regiment until I transferred back to RASigs in 1992. I was finally discharged in Perth in 2001.

In 1993 I was selected for service in Cambodia with FCU UNTAC; after a training module at Randwick in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, I deployed during June and was posted to HQ 2 Sig Sqn located at Battambang in the NW of the country. A highlight of the tour was a Long Tan Commemorative visit, which was open to RAInf (and ex-RAInf) members of the contingent. This would be the first official visit to Vietnam by a formed group of Australian troops since the reunification of Vietnam in 1975. I returned from Cambodia on 12 November with the last of the troops returning home.

During my civilian career, I undertook various IT roles, including the ANZ IT Infrastructure Manager with a global engineering company with over 40,000 staff across 40 countries. I then went on to become the business manager for Legacy WA until redundancy in January 2019. During my retirement I keep busy with volunteer work, and I am President of the Military Historical Society of Australia (WA Branch), Property Manager of the SASR Historical Research Centre, and a Legatee with Legacy WA.