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From what I saw, and the numbers were only about a third of other years, the kids were having too much fun to worry about the rain. So, we ended up with almost one hundred surplus juice boxes, which ended up in the local food bank.

Great book, as is The Road Past Mandalay. Read them both in the sixties as a young subaltern.

Re any of the possible case, and especially  the unstated 1a, I feel that individuals who strive for party leadership, and then becoming prime minister, do not suffer from an excess of modesty and self-doubt. If Scheer was to win the prize of his political life, he would be unlikely to surrender...

This Reuters story is reproduced under the Fair Dealings provisions of the Copyright Act. It is the only one of this nature I have seen and we should remember that one Robin does not make a Spring. Canada's Trudeau campaigns after blackface images deliver blow to polling numbers OTTAWA...

As I recall, and I was part of a team that was to track the Coalition plan and execution, VII Corps was the main striking force with an aim of destroying the main Iraqi force in the area south of Basra by bypassing Kuwait and striking NE. The Marines on the ground were pair of a decoy attacking...

The local radio station is reporting he was from the Kemptville area and graduated from our Catholic high school.

"The 41-day campaign will be just under half the length of the marathon 78-day election in 2015." Oh, really?

A million years ago, or at least when 4 CIBG was part of 1 (BR) Corps, somebody fairly high in rank codified exactly that for defensive operations on the North German approach. He called it the sponge concept as it was built on soaking up a GSFG (Group of Soviet Forces in Germany( advance by...

Absolutely. This was one of the selling points of laser engagement. I also once heard of a complaint from the CG of an American armoured division. He said he liked to stand on a hill and watch his tanks manoeuvre; now after they had used MILES, he couldn't see them because they stayed in the...

Interesting article, indeed. Are people getting too used to MILES? As an aside, a friend of mine was commanding our infantry school when it trailed a laser engagement system. One of the criticisms levelled at it by the instructional staff was that they were unable to properly assess commanders...

Maybe somebody (Petard?) recalls. I remember something circa TF 1-06 about us leasing/borrowing a Danish counter-mortar radar, or did they support us with one?

couple of things about the crash and subsequent recovery. I was at FMCHQ in the training shop with one of my responsibilities to supervise CABC training. After the crash a party of staff from the unit jumped into the area to secure it until the specialized folks could arrive. We also had a...

Let me add a compliment to the team, and especially LCol (ret) Mike Walker, who managed to get Bombardier Patrick Labrie, who was killed in a parachuting accident on an exercise in Europe, added to the role of honour.

Green On, Go, the history of Canada's airborne gunners is now available. I am honoured to have participated in the project by writing most of the manuscript, but it is very much a group project by the airborne gunner community. The book itself is in coffee table format and contains a large...

Or the 175mm SP gun, on the same chassis as the M110. It had a range of 32k back in the sixties, but had some technical issues. It resembled nothing so much as a carpet sweeper, remember them - a small body and a long handle.

Thanks, Wolfe. Very interesting and I can think of a number of issues that must be addressed across the broad range of ballistics, logistics, and tactics, along with a bunch of other areas. How big is the 84% zone, and how far up does the round go? How many of these should be included in a...

I have been following this with some interest, as the thread jogged my memory. Many years ago I read a book by the individual who created what became Seal Team 6, and later got in some trouble for financial irregularities, I think. He made a statement in the book that he encouraged his Seals to...

Personal experience? What about the pictures?

I note the lack of any reports re credit card activity, non-payment at gas pumps, or missing or stolen vehicles. Mind you, this could be deliberate on the part of the police.

First thing to learn and accept as dogma is that we are a supporting arm, and the support of our forward troops must always come first. As Petard noted, a good grounding in what we used to call grocery store math is really all one needs for the vast majority of  gunnery stuff, both at the guns...