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    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    Some one will have to send me this Infamous letter, I keep hearing about it, but being as I'm currently employed outside the Sigs world (thank god) I haven't seen it.
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    Fallen Comrades (retired members)

    Had to pass this news on to my Dad, Cal Lindsey (LCol, CD Ret, RCASC)  He and the General we get chums and friends for all their career's.  My Mm used to Baby sit the generals Kids when he was a newly promoted Capt, many, many years ago.  We also have a picture of General Wither and Dad when he...
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    I feel like I am crazy - VP related

    As to the original question, it's a bad habit carry over from the das when we did mixed traffic nets on HF. we would run Voice/CW/CRTTZ all on a common freq as a "Directed Net".  I don't have my Q and Z signal book handy but that's where it started.  The NCS directed the net would ask each...
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    The Time Has Come: Getting a new server

    Hey Mike Once again, I'm in. shoot me PM and I'll do the same as last time. Hugh
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    Name This Photo!!! - The AFV Recognition Thread

    Daimler Dingo Armoured Scout Car with some kind of improvised gun/observation shield.
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    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    While I still think that this whole ACISS amalgamation is an incredibly stupid and badly implemented plan, we should remember one important thing that I have recently learned in a conversation with several current and former serving personal from Fort Ridiculous on the Rideau. This plan was...
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    Syria Superthread [merged]

    I said it before up thread and I'll say it again; "This is NOT rpt NOT our problem" we, the west less France and, to much less extent, US had no hand in any of the internal problems that Syria is now grappling with. That One or BOTH sides have used chemical weapons of some kind doesn't matter. ...
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    M113 Fire Support?

    That is one of the Trials prototypes.  Picture the same hull with a CRT(W) Fox turret as the other.
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    AWOL Charge

    I think I can state, with a fair degree of certainty, that there is FAR, FAR more to this than meets the eye.  This sailor was injuried on board her ship some time ago and was posted else where here in Halifax.  For a brief period she worked for me while waiting for decisions to be made.  I wish...
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    The Reserve Thread- A Merged Collection of Q & A's

    When you apply to the Regular Force on line, you provide your documents by mail you send the Photo Copies.  When You actually go in, in person for interviews and testing you will be asked to bring the originals with you.  Unless something truly radical happened since I left my recruiter position...
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    The Reserve Thread- A Merged Collection of Q & A's

    Depending on what province you're in you will, indeed need to drop off your completed application at the reserve unit you with to join.  Here in Nova Scotia, CFRC will not accept your application for the reserves.  It must be processed through the unit that is "providing " the position that the...
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    Word association (just for fun)

    NDHQ  :warstory:
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    New Army.ca Swag

    Mike Here's a shot of the Army.ca patch on my ruck that we talked about at JCATS
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    Word association (just for fun)

    Where ?
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    6 CBG

    I think they are, collectively, sitting at the NERD Table planning and playing their war games like what happened in High School. On the Upside at least they aren't here in Halifax Running around Point Pleasant Park dressed like a bunch of Crusading / Questing Knights. Oh wait that was last...
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    Word association (just for fun)

    Shade
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    Word association (just for fun)

    Pear
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    The Carleton-York Regiment

    A good place to start is 1st Battalion R NB R, Fredricton as they are the successors to the C & Y. Also a call or email to the Rector of the Cathedral in Saint John would probably would not go amiss, as one of the Parish Priests was also a member of the C & Y leading up to the war.  There is a...
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    Veterans being ‘kept in the dark’ when applying for disability benefits: Ombudsm

    What we are all forgetting is, that in this day in age, where we have people in government and parliament as well as the bureaucracy that have said that it would be better if we were to die instead of being wounded and thus a drain on the government, we are a hindrance to their orderly little...
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    The Great Gun Control Debate

    And if your name is Mom Boucher and the leader of a none criminal organization with a rather length "Sheet" of your own who thinks his personal safety is at risk from rivals, you Might rpt Might just get one. But only if your from Quebec and have "FRIENDS" apparently...
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