Claim: "Weapons Training" is a piece of war poetry written by Bruce Dawe in 1970 with an anti-war sentiment that highlights the regimentation and humiliation dished out during defence training for the Vietnam War.
Evidence: "Weapons Training" is a piece of war poetry written by Bruce Dawe in 1970. A dramatic monologue spoken by a battle-hardened drill sergeant training recruits about to be sent off to the Vietnam War, its anti-war sentiment is evident but more oblique than in Dawe's other well-known war poem, "Homecoming", written two years earlier.