Recent content by Bob Terwilliger

Why not do both? Join the Reserves AND finish high school. The Reserves are perfectly suited for a high school student. Paid training in the summer and during traditional school breaks(Easter and Christmas), and a chance to find out if you really like the army.

Good clerks(especially Coy and pay) are worth their weight in gold.

Naden Street is not anywhere near the water.......... http://maps.google.ca/maps?um=1&hl=en&q=naden%20street%20victoria&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il

I assume the Ranger blanket is the US poncho liner? Thats what we called them(in fact, thats what they were). A fine piece of kit, along with old US M 65 jacket liner. I thought the 82 pattern webbing was just the cats meow. Compared to the 64 pattern, it was.

Sam Sullivan has lost the nomination of his party (The Non Partisan Association, pragmatic conservatives) to NPA Councilor Peter Ladner, and will not be the NPA candidate in the next mayoral election.  The COPE (The Council of Progressive Electors, foaming at the mouth communists who eat live...

The first thing to do with the old issue black air mattress is to dig out (with a C 5 knife, Buck 110, or for you youngsters, your Gerber or whatever) the diaphragm connecting the inflation bag and the mattress. Your inflation time will be cut in half, and you won't be making Benny Hill like...

Here is an article on different types of cooling vests. http://ergonomics.uq.edu.au/eaol/chauhan.pdf I would lean towards the dry ice model myself. No batteries, much colder. If one were to come up with a design along the lines of a light weight plastic vest(in the style of the high visibility...

As a constituent of Vancouver Centre, I could not be happier. A strong NDP candidate versus a strong Liberal incumbent (Hedy Fry) means one thing,  a huge vote split where a strong Conservative can come right up the middle.

We got the Cross and Blackwell canned cake as an arctic ration supplement. Damned good, puncture the top, put it in the pressure cooker for a bit, now thats good eatin'!

"Dairy Spread"

Perhaps on the next postcard, they could out a picture of a goat on it. Oh wait, that could could be construed as porn by some............

Clinton and Carter received favourable press, for the most part.

The ham omelette was the best IMP breakfast ration ever! Even the old canned ham omelette in the IRP was ok, both required copious amounts of ketchup, though.

You would think so. So that leaves the other possibility open, that it was intentional.

His magazines would have been loaded prior to the event. Perhaps someone with a beef swapped his magazine with one with ball rounds. It would be easy to hide, just top off the mag with 2 blank rounds, he would not have noticed.