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When I joined way back when, the plan was to deploy a division to the nuclear battlefield in Europe in time of crisis. Over the years thinking (?) led to a single battle group with a very few guns. The thinking seemed to be that air-delivered guided weapons made guns obsolete (see Gen Harris's...

Hmmm, this is interesting because the "buzz" was that the MND at the time disliked SOF as unmilitary. So, he wanted JTF2 moved out of his riding. There really isn't a classic boathouse.

I was going to post on this operation as well as the one Brihard cited. You may recall that before the troops deployed for the Manitoba flood, an academic, who had submitted very negative material to the Somalia enquiry, was cited opposing the use of troops. Her point was that militaries were...

Imagine them drafting the Ten Commandments!

When I was the chief instructor at Artillery Department of the Combat Arms School in Gagetown in 1974-1977, we had a Boffin in Air Defence Wing. When I first arrived, I spent some time familiarizing myself with it, including reading the equipment manual and the gun history book. Our Boffin was...

Originally there were two branches, one of which contained coastal and anti-aircraft. At some time circa the sixties, this branched merged with field, and then as T6 noted, they split again.

Who did it is established, because the Iranian government has taken responsibility. The how and why is attracting more than its share of speculation. We don't know, but I subscribe to the principle that something that could be attributed to malice, is more likely to be a result of incompetence...

I wonder if anyone remembers the pejorative "Remittance Man"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remittance_man

Agree completely, as I read the book several years ago.

Are we seeing a result of a culture that made a virtue of overcoming obstacles, and confused the virtue with accepting dangerous conditions? I submit any failings were not confined to the service and area in question, but might be service wide. And I submit it sounds like something we would do...

In September 1968 I had the pleasure of forming and commanding the M109 wing. We drew the guns from Base Supply, organized and trained ourselves, and then began to train gunners ranging from TQ3 fresh from the depot up to senior commissioned and non-commissioned members. One of our first tasks...

Don't anybody suggest forced gender reassignments.

To paraphrase: Mike does the difficult right away; the impossible takes a little longer.  :salute:

That also was my impression from the briefings I received as a Canadian liaison officer in the United States after the event. And that is not to detract from the performance of the troops on the ground, as opposed to the planning of the ground tactical plan.

In 1967 in Fort Prince of Wales in Germany, the officers of 1 RCHA, 1 SSM Bty and 69 USA Msl Det burned a condemned piano in the parking lot of the officers' mess. The only reason any of us could come up with was that it seemed like a good idea at the time.

This has been a feature of Canadian (and probably all British-pattern) armies for a very long time, dating far back from when I first encountered it in the early sixties in Gagetown. Remember the old drinking ditty that went "Old King Cole was a merry, old soul, And a merry, old soul was Old...

In 1964 HQ 3CIBG in Gagetown did an officers' study session on the operation, which was a mess. Only one battalion, the RHLI took its objective, and its CO, LCol John Rockingham, soon found himself commanding 9 CIB. A goodly part of the session focussed on the RHC, including a short, emotional...

That's the Mike Day I knew.

Echoing the above, Rick. One of my earliest memories was watching pig rendering, and many times I saw our Sunday dinner begin as a chicken running around with its head chopped off.

She stated she would remain as a Member of Parliament.