Recent content by davidk

Be careful not to trip over the contour lines.

It may fall under urban legend, but I remember hearing that something like this happened at Farnham years ago...the same story also explained why they no longer have screen doors at the kitchen.

Nobody's gonna drag the PLA to court over this. You really think China would care if Canada tried to get a legal injunction? We're not at war, but it's not as if a NATO ally was using our camouflage pattern. If the Italian army started painting their vehicles this way, we could potentially see...

From CBC News, with the usual disclaimers. http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/09/06/afghanistan-canada.html 2 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan Two more Canadian soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion Sunday in southern Afghanistan, the military said. Since 2002, 129...

Interestingly, this surfaces on the same day....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlZiWK2Iy8

Congrats to the team from the Black Watch, who improved from last place in 2008 to runners-up this year.

Haiti and Kosovo are pretty much all wrapped up. Afghanistan is where the cool kids go these days. Most of the other overseas positions are for officers (like in the Sudan)

Alpha 66 actually does exist...except it's a bunch of Cuban expats who opposed Castro. Same thing goes for Omega 10 Omega 7. Somebody's been reading a bit too much National Enquirer.

Well, 34 Brigade is getting the new ruck now - I just picked up mine this morning, and I won't waste everyone's time rehashing what's been said - just that I actually want my 82 pattern back. This may change after the next exercise/BFT. At least the compression sack looks good...

Don't be so quick to generalize. Your profile says you've been in for two and a half years. How many courses have you seen from an objective [read: not a candidate at the time] point of view? There are good and bad ways of teaching (and, by extension, running pt) that can be found in both the...

The RCH had one sitting on their parade square inside about two months ago. Not sure if it's functional but someone did a great job refurbishing it for its future pedestal.

51st Svc Bn has an LCol - but he was a major in the fall, and still CO. If I remember correctly, 34 CER is made up of the old 3 Fld Eng Reg't and 9 Fld Eng Sqn in Rouyn-Noranda. I remember hearing something about them sharing a CO - may have already happened, may be in the works, not entirely sure.

How does that work for class A reservists who are responsible for the purchase of their own LPO footwear? I brought up the contradictions in this policy to my CoC the other day - I still wear MkIII's but there are other guys who had boot chits and are now forced into GP boots - the response was...

Maybe LFQA is handing out more shaving chits to offset all the revoked boot chits  ::) It's true though, there are a LOT of Vandoos with beards. It tends to stand out.

Heard this last weekend, while working on a course at 4R22eR...candidate comes by the course office. Candidate: do you know where Sgt XXXX is? Me: He's running the range right now. Candidate: &@#^!&@#^&@!#^*@&#**$@@!)*^ [inaudible due to 9mil fire 15 feet away, 4 Vandoo has an indoor range] Me...