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Oh man some of that stuff is hilarious- especially the music videos.  The one for This Way to Armadillo was absolutely priceless!  Too bad you don't see a lot of stuff like that coming out of the Canadian forces, although my old man brought back a tape done while in Bosnia, a sort of a musical...

That's the inherent risk any organization takes when the necessity for greater numbers exists as is the case with our military.  It's something the Americans have experienced for decades, and isn't exactly something new in the Canadian forces.  When hiring standards are reduced, you do open...

First the Angels, now the Snowbirds.  This has not been a good year for the aerobatic squadrons.  RIP and Respect to both  :salute:

Not the 'ha-ha' kind of amusing, Librarian.  I'll leave it at that though.

I get the sneaking suspicion that they won't be paying Disney any royalties for using their character.... Personally, I found that clip to be more amusing than threatening.  Like we're entering a world of cartoon super villainy.  How do you take something like that seriously?

What a goddamn cowardly thing to do...not the beating part, but the not doing anything about it part.  As awful as the act in itself is, the absolute apathy from the onlookers is just disgraceful.  Just shameful.  I just hope that in this country were a similar event to happen, people would have...

Holy crap, I just had a dream about something like this happening- same type of situation- kid not paying respect to our country by standing for anthem or flag being raised or something of that nature.  Neither here nor there.  Back in the day, I would have been one of those kids that...

Geo- I was merely stating the ideal way of bettering our forces.  It certainly isn't the most practical way in terms of the 'how'- since obviously that money comes from somewhere and must be channeled to specific sectors/branches/etc, but I wasn't looking at it in terms of specifics, rather...

The answer to the original question seems pretty obvious to me- dump more funding in the Forces, nuff said.  More money equals more and better equipment, means greater spending on recruitment and so forth.  I think the idea of having a 'combined' armed forces with other countries defeats the...

Wings baby...all the money on the Wings.

I've personally encountered strange phenomenon in my life- seeing strange objects in the sky, being in houses where weird crap happens.  As a matter of belief, I do believe that there potentially exists other life in the universe, and some of it is probably more advanced than we are- I'm...

ACU doesn't look that much different from the MARPAT really, and the marines have been using those for a few years now.  Does anyone know if there is any difference in the manufacturing of either uniform?  I don't think the Marines use the velcro though- which does seem a little useless IMO.  I...

"We're not here to fight the Taliban...we're here to make the Taliban irrelevant." The Dutch Army- an army of contradictions apparently.  What exactly IS the point of sending armed soldiers to a warzone if you have no intentions of using them?  Jeeze, if they wanted diplomats there, send...

That's a serious blow, dude.  Really sorry to hear about that.  I've enjoyed reading your posts, and your insights while I've been on these forums, and hate to hear something like that happen to you, man.  But, hell, you survived Iraq, you'll survive this too.  Just another of life's many battles.

Very cool.  I wanted to be a pilot originally- but given my height, weight and shape there's no way they'd let me into a cockpit...and I wouldn't want to be anything but a fighter pilot so that kind of limited me...well, that and I don't have university. But good stuff getting your chance to...

Hilarious.  Everyone's initial reaction really made this joke.  Almost as good as a few years back when I was in the Qs in Downsview Park they were sending around letters to all of the residents that they were going to be installing double-pane glass windows in all of the houses, because the US...

I lived in the Qs for a long time, and I never really experienced any overt rudeness from anyone in the community.  In fact, most of the people that lived there were extremely courteous, even to a kid like me who often appeared very anti-establishment.  As someone posted before, I actually find...

Ohh man, metal works class- now there's some memories...painful memories.  Needless to say, I think I burned myself more than anyone else in that class whilst operating the MIG welders.  I dropped that class pretty quick in favor of drama because of all the burnings.

My favorite part of that doc was when the one guy was writing Grapes, making reference to Mats Sundin and said something to the effect of- "I could die out here, and would never see the Leafs win a cup.  Let that be on your conscience!" I haven't laughed so hard at something in a long time. ...

Excellent documentary.  I'm more certain than ever I made the right decision to go with the Royal Canadian Regiment (geographical convenience not withstanding.  :P)