Recent content by Blackadder1916

I know I should have sympathy for a man lying in the street in agony but a certain image intrudes . . .

Would anyone be able to find it?

Luckily, most patients that I handled back when I was "lifting and toting" usually were under a weight threshold that didn't require a NATO MLC marking painted on their ass. But there were two that I remember. The first was in Edmonton during the Commonwealth Games in 1978, 1 Fd Amb's...

Alberta defines it as . . . https://publicshare.albertahealthservices.ca/teams/policydocuments/1/clp-prov-ems-bariatric-response-ambulance-ps-ems-06.pdf And how many it should take to move one . . .

How many of those injuries are caused getting an already stretchered patient into the bus vice getting the fat b******d onto the cot and down the stairs, or later during transfer at destination? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7550220/

I was wondering what "security" tasks those additional infantry battalions performed. (from the source material that Wiki page used) https://web.archive.org/web/20110811162158/http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/uk/gulforbat1990.html Prisoner of War Guard ForceBrigade strength force...

If at first you don't succeed, try again - 22 years later. This isn't the first time that the UK government wanted to house asylum seekers at that site. (from 12 Mar 2004) https://www.propertyweek.com/archive/a-hostile-welcome Not to think that they only objected to asylum seekers, but they...

Piddington? Ahh, I remember it because it sounded like a place where you went to have a piss. Incredibly, the CAF almost had a base there. Well, not really. Near forty years ago, following the 1987 Defence White Paper, one of the projects we looked at that fell under ALMS (ACE Logistics and...

There were a bunch of videos from the 1980s that might answer some of your questions.

Thank you for providing that link. It's a savvy reminder that some things are not worth wasting time or energy.

And in European monarchy news https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/28/norways-king-harald-v-dies-at-the-age-of-89-palace-confirms

Trumps signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America".

Recently finished "By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, Special Operations, and Strategy" by Michael G. Vickers I recommend it. Among many detailed reviews of the book this from Military Review gives an overview of what it is about...

Many probably have a preconceived notion of what rural Albertans may be thinking, so I was pleased to see this "op-ed" by Bonnie Critchley (the "independent" candidate that made the best showing against Poilievre in the Battle River- Crowfoot byelection). She reposted it on FB...

Every other field hockey match I've seen, especially that long ago, they all wore skirts.