Shoppers at Albury’s Homemaker Centre in Borella Road yesterday got a close-up look at a Bushwacker Ambulance, the regulation vehicle used by the army abroad.

Fully combat loaded, the heavy truck can weigh up to a whopping 18 tonnes.

And inside, it’s got all the vital equipment any paramedic needs to save a life.

“This is the exact vehicle we use in Afghanistan,” Major Damien Batty said.

It formed part of the attraction to the Amy School of Health’s sausage sizzle fundraiser for Legacy, held in conjunction with Harvey Norman.

Major Batty, the school’s operations officer, said it was one of several fundraising activites the school undertook throughout the year to raise funds for the charity that provides much needed assistance to veterans.

The school has set a fund-raising target of $5000.