Recent content by Evocatus

Happened via a link, to trip over Mr Cox's open FB profile...  'We' Canadian taxpayers apparently employed/paid, Mr Cox in some capacity, to travel to Kandahar, and by design/purpose or by happenstance, Jim ended up in conv with Commander JTFA, verbosing his theories on winning the war and...

Thx people. I'll follow up on the links.

Discussing the New Vets Charter with some retired acquaintances, expressing my [uniformed view] that I felt it was simply a matter of the civil servant bean counters, convincing the politicians that going from a monthly med pension cheque to one time payment, would save millions/billion... A...

Apparently it's the same drill; use a coax, stripping away the braided shielding, to bare the center conductor to 1/4 wavelength [freq X 234], including accommodation for a loop at the end [for lanyard to hoist up]. Leave the BNC connector on the radio end and hook it up. One cannot connect...

Old signallers and old para signallers in particular will recall the home made modified long wire antenna modification that we used to use with the AN/PRC-25 Set and later it's cousin the AN/PRC-77 Set, to extend the range, by either:   a. tossing it up into the trees to jack it up 2-30 ft...

Related funny story -  My boss in  NDHQ was working late [past 1800 hrs], so he used his issue BB to order a delivery pizza, which he subsequently did not claim, altho he could have... Point:  a few weeks later he recieved notification from the local Comm Sqn telecom types, that his call to the...

I have a supposedly former Infanteer, who is claiming that he was medically released from the CF, due to injuries he sustained during a patrol in the sand box. He says that he walked around a corner of a building, and took three[3] AK [7.62] rounds to the chest, at 15 m.  Apparently, he was...

Looking for your guidance Ladies & Gents, 1. How might one confirm whether a soldier has been medically released due to a cbt injury and/or awarded a 'wound stripe' [access to information request] ? 2. Is it [presently] an offence in Canada, to claim to have been wounded in battle ?  if so...

The new [and soon to be the only] kid on the block: http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/reo-oer/index.aspx The new 'REO' module in MonitorMASS is now mandated as per CFG 003/10 and eff 12 Apr 10, CLG 010/10 for the NDHQ PRL and Army Cl B's respectively. There are already many other orgs that have...

Only in America and increasingly in Canada, can a fool like Ms Coulter earn a dime. I suspect that the fact that she is 30 lbs underweight, garners her more attention; 60 lbs the other way, and as human nature would have it, she would solicite no attention.

For the past 30 years, my lovely wife has not been able to endure the Drill Hall goodbyes.  We did our groping in the front hallway, as I headed out the door, and met each other the same way 6-7-8 months later. My son's tour however; she was in the drill hall and at the terminal; wouldn't have...

The Army Software Support Team's MonitorMASS 'REO' module [Reserve Employment Opportunity] was auth for use, to publish REOs exclusively, by the NDHQ PRL [ref CANFORGEN 003/10] eff as of 10 Jan 2010. The CLS just signed off on CANLANDGEN 010/10, mandating REO use by the LS/Army eff 1 Apr 10...

At the risk of drawing fire for resurrecting this 200+ day ole post.... CAVET: not nec the 100% solution, but with minimal tweaking, it could be... For Units using MonitorMASS; one possible solution - You drop the "BAR" sign in sheets and simply create a nominal roll of pers parading, in...

My 2 cents worth;  It seems to me, in a perfect Canadian Forces, this charging for OHIP issue, would be handled quite nicely by DBD/CF by simply reimbursing [the CF mbrs portion only] via PLD.    However, you just know thast it's most likely not ....    :salute: cheers...Evocatus.

Units cannot purchase a weapon, nor ammunition [incl Simunition]; without express auth from NDHQ//DAT/DAPM// in teh case of the latter.  :'( :warstory: The new 5.56MM C7, C9 and 9MM Simunitions conversion bolts [C& & C9]  and barrels [9MM], respectively, are due to ea LFC Area this Fall.  I'm...