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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    Hasn't this been quietly happening with the new "Tactical Groupings" mentioned above wrt the Brockville Rifles and PWOR? Also agree that this is like moving one set of deck chairs to another level of the Titanic.
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    RCAF IntO Posting

    Congrats! You're heading into the fighter force at an interesting time, and I suggest you focus your PD on 5th Gen data networks as well as the usual opfor fighter stuff. Other than that, just "do." At about the 3 year mark, either push to Winnipeg (to mingle with the Air Ops folks) or start to...
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    RCAF IntO Posting

    A blank space for the Int O career manager is CFINTCOM.
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    U.S. gun crime, health insurance woes scare off Canadian diplomats

    Meh, union's gonna union. If they can get a concession in the former of higher allowances for FSO in the USA based on these arguments, they can up allowances in countries that are actually very bad.
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    Bow Hunting Vs Rifle Hunting

    Sigh. Your description of archery just described my efforts at skeet.
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    RCAF IntO Posting

    Int O here. My suggestion? Cold Lake, followed by Trenton, Winnipeg, and then Ottawa. In Ottawa, try to get to the operational level (eg CJOC of the JIOC). Going strat early does have advantages, but going to tactical later is harder as the expectations are higher and the learning curve is...
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    I wish I had known that the last time I ordered Oxfords, which was three years ago. They still look like crap.
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    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    Further to my last...a thought. Fluffy pablum, but also an excuse to make C-21 a confidence motion? Perhaps get the NDP to trigger an election on a issue the LPC will want to fight in the suburbs of Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver?
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    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    Wow. I just skim-read Volume 4 of the MCC report very quickly and have to say, it really makes some logical leaps. The recommendations about "Reducing Gun Lethality" in Volume 4, Part D really do rely on generalizations from case studies in AUS, NZL, and the UK without addressing if violence...
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    OMM Revocation

    Saw the first picture and thought the "silver mullets" was referring to the armoured horses. Meh, can't win them all. As for my original question, it's a piece of trivia I'll probably wonder about at Christmas parties when I'm trying to get to buzzed
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    OMM Revocation

    Weird obscure protocol thing: now that he's no longer a holder of an OMM, doesn't he lose the silver-mullet cougars?
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    Canadian Military can work in Europe and Asia at the same time

    I had a New Zealander as a boss who taught me to ask "with this new priority, where can I now fail?" It makes me a hit at O Gps, but I'm now finding people are actually answering that question.
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    40th Anniversary of the Intelligence Branch

    Most of the celebrations have been pushed to later in November, since a 40 year old trying to keep up with a Queens kid celebrating homecoming usually doesn't end well for the 40 year old...
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    tomahawk axe

    This seems to be the Canadian Army equivalent of "hipster-ism."
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