Recent content by medicineman

Apparently insurmountable...

So cool...

Given how much electricity is exported to the US from Quebec, I'd start there...though could just be a paranoid MH case or a resurrection of the FLQ... 🍿

This popped up in my feed - I know the song from the studio track and didn't think much of it, but like a lot of R.E.M.'s other studio tracks, they're much better live and I really quite like the layering of the guitars in this, which is NOWHERE near what it sounds like on the album. Going...

Yes 🤷‍♂️?

No telling where that dude's from with a name like that...

I still think at the end of the day the government will first have to admit that we were in fact involved in a war before a VC will ever be awarded again...and they don't want to do that because of the floodgates of other issues it will open regarding Veterans' Benefits/Affairs.

It'll depend on if that's an upward trend from your baseline or if it could be written off to dehydration from fasting bloodwork...

My partner was put in for an MB in '94 as part of group that rushed into a minefield to treat and evacuate 3 people seriously injured (one fatally) in a mine strike...he was downgraded and eventually was awarded an MiD 5 or 7 years after the fact. RUMINT at the time was that they were trying to...

I find it weird that Australia and New Zealand both awarded VC's during the GWOT, yet not Canada....and I'd argue that Kiwis are as reserved if not more so than us...could be that people don't want to get out of that peacekeeping mode or worse, admit that we were in a war.

:( RIP Ozzy!!

Good to see David Keuning back on stage with The Killers...

Suppose you could try revisiting being an Infantry officer...seen weirder things in my life, then when done, reclassify as an MO and go to the HSPRL or join the Reg Force as an anaesthesiologist...

Was thinking same thing, or the grenade went somewhere unintended - seen that happen doing live fire house clearing in a tire house in Camp Pendleton, where a young guy tossed a grenade into a room instead of posting on the ground and it rebounded off the wall into the hallway out the opposite...