Recent content by vonGarvin

Of which year? :)

When my mother died, it was a phone call. My boss told me to just go and he would ensure all would be handled. When my mother failed to die in a timely fashion, I emailed my boss to explain things. His advice to me? "Breathe". When all was said and done, I was off for 3 weeks. In short...

How true is that? LOL

From personal experiences, Captains do not know everything when it comes to Admin.

The first thing I would do is just talk with your superior and explain what's going on. From personal experience, the CoC is usually quite understanding in such situations. And as far as I recall, compassionate does not run out. Example (from my own experiences with one of my...

It is. I have it up in my new office now. I was completely blown away by it, and the D Comd gave a very nice speech about it.

The gift is a Horse Hame. Mounted on wood from an Ammo crate.

News article about the parade Change of Command Parade

I hear that the outgoing CO is a bit of a pain in the neck. ;)

I've not played it; however, friends of mine have and it is highly favoured in "modern" (read: Cold War gone Hot) warfare. Another of that genre is the Assault series (there are four "games" in the series). For Assault, the level is Platoon (ie: each "counter" is a platoon. There are some...

Bump This is Hill 621 in progress: Set in the USSR in July 1944 during operation BAGRATION, the Soviets (brown in colour) are attempting to take the ridge ("Hill 621") from the defending Germans. I'm German in this one. I faced a swarm of 6 x T 34s. 5 are no longer with us, and I lost one...

Taught at the Wainwright Hotel, Club Entre-Nous and Sassy's, depending on location of your battle school, back in the day ;)

Wow, so, 18 years, eh? Well, where to start: Afghanistan. Don't ask. Like the show "the Apprentice"? Wait until you see who's president. Oh, and the Leafs still haven't won the cup. But the Argonauts have won 4 Grey cups in that span. And the Toronto Raptors won the NBA championship one...

As a somewhat interested observer, the response to the guard on social media was amazing, to say the least. Mr Taylor has his opinion, and I get the concern to manage (ie: reduce) waste; I can think of some DLN activities that ought to be shelved...