May 24, 2026
G’day and welcome back to True Blue Conversations — where we
share the stories
of those who’ve stood the line, served their country's communities,
and carried the
weight of responsibility most will never truly understand. In this
episode, we sit down
with Sue Osborn, whose career is anything but ordinary.
Sue spent 27 and a half years in the Australian Army, operating
in some of the most
demanding environments you can imagine. She started as a Combat
Medic,
spending 15 years at the pointy end—where decisions are immediate,
the stakes are
life and death, and there’s no room for hesitation.
She then made a hard pivot into a completely different
battlefield, spending the next
12 and a half years as an Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle Operator—a drone
pilot—working
in the evolving space of modern aviation warfare, where pressure
doesn’t disappear,
it just changes form.
Across her career, Sue deployed to the Solomon Islands, East
Timor, and completed
two tours of Afghanistan. She’s seen conflict up close, and from a
distance—but
always with real consequences attached to every decision. What
stands out about
Sue isn’t just the length of her service, it’s the range. She’s
operated on the ground,
under pressure, treating casualties… and later, from the air, where
the responsibility
shifts but never gets lighter.
This is someone who understands what it means to perform when it
matters—again
and again, over nearly three decades. But wait until the end when
you hear what
she’s doing now, this is a raw and honest chat about service and
the toll that service
has both physically and mentally.
Presenter: Adam Blum
Guest: Sue Osborn
Editor: Kyle Watkins