The lone female Australian Defence recruit in the latest batch from Brisbane will begin her training just four days before from Anzac Day.
Tahlia Reid, 20, was the only woman of 28 Brisbane recruits who were welcomed into the armed forces during a special enlistment ceremony on Monday.
The event was held just days before the 100th anniversary of the Anzacs landing at Gallipoli.
Now, she's waking up at the Kapooka Army Recruit Training Centre on day one of an 80-day training regime.
She'll learn how to shoot basic infantry weapons, work communications equipment and scan for threats in different terrains.
The former Bachelor of Justice student says she signed up because she felt her life was missing something.
And she's not nervous about the possibility of one day serving overseas - in fact, that's the whole idea.
"That's sort of (why) I want to, so it's not really a nerves thing, it's more of a when," she said.
Peace-keeping, in particular, is her overall aim.
She says her girlfriends have at times questioned why she'd want to move into such a male-dominated workplace.
"Most of them are like, `what? Are you really serious?'" she laughed.
"But it hasn't been so bad so far."
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