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I am going to join the band wagon here and ask people to chill for a bit – I am sure that there is more coming down the pipe. If you do a quick scan back on the gg.ca site you can see that for awards (glib call made by me in 2 minutes for AFG) the NCMs got 38 and the Officers 17. How come when...

Bingo - both of the tidbits I gave in quotations came from the artillery's 81mm Mortar Conversion course PO 401.01 - courtesty of the Arty Sch - bless their hearts. Although I seem to recall that an edition of the TFT for the C70A1 came out that had the phrase "with Blast Attenuation Device" on...

I would hazard a guess that you are mistaken in your deductions Actually the Blast Attenuation Device (BAD) is one of the five main parts of the Barrel ML 81mm L16A1/A2.  According to some (inf) it is a device designed to provide a reduction of blast and overpressure.  Others (arty) would...

Okay - damaging might have been too harsh a word.  But then again comparing the MGS to a Tank was damaging. If the Army and Government had wanted to form an airborne/parachute battalion it would have been extremely easier, less expensive and made more sense to just re-role one of the light...

Well the Airborne - amongst other tasks - had to be able to respond to a major air disaster in the far north as one of its tasks.  Not so with the Spec Ops Regt.  Also the Airborne belonged to the army - like wise the Spec Ops Regt does not. Austrailia has both Para Battalion and a Commando...

Wow, I hope the young Gunner with then initials N.G. gets someone in his chain to fill him in on topics like "staying in your lane" or maybe Army News picks up on the difference between some Pte's rumours and news.  Quotes to the effect that its a 'Battle Ready Group' and 'Its like the old...

Ah, where's the love here?  You calling me strange?

A picture is worth a thousand words..... http://strathconas.ca/ecoy.php

I know.  Tongue in cheek stuff.  Me bad.  I will go and sit in my room for two minutes. (Please don't flame me too badly - I know you can all point out to PALADIUM Roto with reserve sub-units and the job everyone is doing now.  Comment was made in light of the present state of morale of people...

It’s been mandated that any potential Calg High coy must include 20% regular force. NDHQ will with-hold all information on which positions they are until people have been promised the tour and CDS/CLS have told COs “you’re going”

If you are referring to all those photos of the patrol pathfinders doing the sub trg in March I think it is safe to say that they were wearing dry suits as a safety item.  Ocean tends to be a bit cold that time of year as I am sure I don’t have to tell you. As for the guys calling themselves...

This board is an interesting and enlightening exchange of opinions and ideas. Very recently there have been several posts (numerous) that have called into question statements made in various media pieces (LAV protection, Darfur) That same mindset should be applied to this article. It tells...

Food for thought for all you guys. Of the four recent causalities in Afghanistan one of them had his photo on the net a couple of weeks before listing his name and that he was part of the Close Protection Party for Gen Fraser.  Sort of helps the enemy with things like targeting, and...

Ref your question – the document that you keep posting on the internet (you might want to think about that one) mentions the CF swim test “in addition” to the PT test you had to do....

There are always a couple of guys asking for pubs or links to them on here. I am aware that most of these publications are available through open source internet – however most of them have a warning on the first page similar to this: WARNING ALTHOUGH NOT CLASSIFIED THIS PUBLICATION OR PART OF...

They might just be getting you to do a different swim test, you know like the one everyone has to do before they use things like assault boats.... (PS - I would have to say you are wrong - std for CAT 1 PT test has not changed.)

from an infantry perspective one of the initial trains of thought goes back to the arty command relationships.  The Arty guys love to tell you they are a Div level asset (usually “We’re a higher level asset”), mortars didn’t get taken away from the Bn Comd – hence the old role of mortars to...

depends: CAT 1 – positions are dependant on successful completion of the course – or TBA. CAT 2 – regular APS and case-by-case. helpful, ain’t I.

Of course the fact this change was made in the middle of the never-ending Bosnia deployments, where the guns didn't start deploying with LG1s till roto 7 sort of negates yours...how many tours went over without an inf mortar platoon and had instead one from the guns? I believe it wasn't until...

http://www.knightsbridgeuniversity.com/documents/armyreservestoronto24.doc I love quotes off the internet.  I’m going to use the terms “insular,” “parochial” and “arrogant species of hubris” in my PER this year.