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You know, I'm sure we're all still smarting just a little at the silliness at U Vic a few weeks back, ( the Student Union's abortive attempt to ban military recruiters from the campus).  On the other side of the proverbial coin, I thought I'd throw this out there... I'm an instructor at NAIT...

Roy -- notwithstanding the coffee I just circulated through my sinuses -- thanks for that; your story was a badly needed belly-laugh.

Okay......<puts on hockey helmet and shoulder pads>....I'll throw in my two cents.  This has nothing to do with the appropriate scales of issue, or what any HQ says about who should be wearing what.  My response to the whole debate is strictly emotional. I am the son of an RCAF airman, a former...

Amen

Old Sweat, Have read yr posts many times and enjoyed them; thoughtful and intelligent.  However, on this one I'm going to have to go with Mortarman.  I've been doing a good deal of research on this for a specific project of mine over the last three years, and I am certain that Germany could...

Have flown on both the Yukon and the Cosmo.  The only trip I took on the Yukon (back in 1966 at the tender age of ten) was coming back from Metz to Trenton, and the seats were facing forward.  Same for the Cosmo. HOWEVER, there is one aircraft type in which I DO remember the seats facing...

Another "old rank" that I didn't see mentioned in earlier posts, was the "I'll put the fear of God into you" rank in the Canadian Army at one time --Staff Sergeant! I hadn't thought about the fact that the posn of "batman" might derive from rich officers (who'd bought their commision in the...

The whole thing reminds me of an event recorded by Sir Winston Churchill in the first volume of his History of WWII - The Gathering Storm. It took place in 1933.  The Student Union a Oxford University made and passed the following resolution. "...that this House will in no circumstances fight...

Okay, I feel a little funny replying to this one. There are a few replies on this thread regarding the shoulder patch worn by the Yellowknife Army Cdt Corps.  Let's begin with a couple of corrections; the corps number in 2837.  At the time the shoulder patch was designed, (1988) the Corps'...

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but, re: the noise complaints-- I still remember standing on my balcony in Yellowknife at mid-day watching a CF-18 take off from the airport (back about '88) and loving the show.  He tucked the gear up and made a tight port bank over the Range Lake South...

Okay, I'll throw in my two cents worth, and have somebody call me on it. I grew up around the Starfighters back in the early 60s (in Germany and Sardinia), when they originally had the Nuclear Strike role in NATO. I have never, never seen Canadian Starfighters with Sidewinders.  Yes, the F-104...

"You guys must make a bundle on overtime!" -- DUFF GEN

Very interesting read.  I hope the membership of Army.ca won't mind if I throw in my two cents worth; I say this because the article is quite correct that Paganism is probably one of the least understood religious minority groups in North America, and  I'm Pagan. Having said that, I disagree...

Librarian, I can go you one better...I can still recite my dad's RCAF service number, and he retired in 1966! Oh my gawd, where's my Carter's little liver pills and Geritol? :-\

My sons are now 23 and 19 years old, and have both moved out into the real world.  We've come to the point in our relationship where we can talk about some of the things they experienced during their childhood.  As expected, there have been revelations for all of us.  Things like--now that they...

+1 My father was in the RCAF when I was a wee tad.  That's the flag I remember being painted on the tails of the Sabres, Canucks and--later--Starfighters in Europe. I have pic of me with my parents standing in front of the first Starfighter delivered to 3 Wing Zweibrucken, and yep; on the tail...

Uh, Bruce? How 'bout dropping over to my place about once every coupla day's I'll pop a beer for you and you can relax at my kitchen sink aaaaaaall you want.  ;D I'm the sorta person that waits until the stack of dirty dishes is wedged firmly between the countertop and ceiling before I break...

So...Freddy G, What if I announced on Army.ca That Freddy G apparently said: "All left-handed near-sighted Bohemian eunuchs are a*******." Then we'd tell somebody who cares, (maybe the  Society for the Advancement of Left-Handed Near-Sighted Bohemian Eunuchs), and there would be national...

Army Outfitter and Fiddlehead--you're right about the cap badge.  I remember it being worn by the DND civilian bus drivers way back when. I talked to a driver about it one day just after they'd been issued the new cap badge and he was some digusted.  He took his cap off, and spun the "wagon...

I love it... I originally heard Number 24 about 20 years ago in Yellowknife from a buddy of mine that was an old hand at bush flying; his version went this way: 24. The three most useless things in the world are the altitude above you, the runway behind you and the fuel in the bowser. Yep...