Bruce Dawe’s novel, Weapon Training is one of the most popular poems that Bruce Dawe wrote about the military life during the Vietnam War. In his novel, he used stronger themes to catch reader’s attention. Weapon Training is about Bruce’s opposition to the Vietnam War. In his poem, he establishes that the Vietnam War will cause hard time for Australian if they involve in it. In the novel, Bruce used dramatic anger by using the voice of the drill Sergeant to establish this idea, he tried to explain that the weapons that are being trained are human being, he tried to explain 'that' the men were forced on recruitment to be solders and trained to kill another human being. The hatred that planted in their hearts made them mortal without mercy and