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Sorry, but I don't buy that. We are already restricted from joining political parties, speaking to the press, and now are not even permitted to wear a t-shirt ridiculing (and rightly so) an anti-military politician who has insinuated that Canadian soldiers are terrorists and participants in an...

Now there's an idea for the brits! If someone (outside of the UK military) wants a platoon/coy/bn on parade in Kilts, let them pay for it! Perhaps the cost could be downloaded to a tourism organisation, private industry, or, god forbid, the world's richest woman herself, the queen!

This, I believe, is part of the problem. For office/clerical/administrative positions, the issued boots are just fine. We need to realise that with good insoles, the Mk IIIs are sufficient for those who are not required to walk long distances with weight. All too often I find, sore footsies are...

When "push comes to shove" the fitter guy will always win! This is the same refrain I hear all the time from PT test failures. They are the only ones saying "soldiering is'nt only about being in shape.....look at so and so - he got 98 on the cooper's test but he's a pump...I shine in the field...

Maybe I'm way off base here, but if I'm not mistaken, in Canada, the ceremonial dress money comes from the Regiments and NPF, correct? So if the unit wants to buy kilts and puttees and pithe helmets, they are more than welcome to, but the CF is not on the hook for it. Would this system have...

For carrying his Bar-b-que, lawn chair, 5 gallon coffee cup, fleece pants, coveralls and both sleeping bags in, along with other pieces of mission essential kit. Did I say carrying? I meant "tying to the back of the turret"  ;D

The sand traps I won't argue with. I get my pants 2" longer than they should be, so the traps go right to the bottom of my foot, that way they don't pull out when running/jumping/climbing over things. I used to do what you describe, but I only marched for an hour with a boot full of WATC once...

Passed the EXPRESS test with a 7.5 on the beep run - who's your daddy?

No, I mean the ones we share a border with, who participate in numerous yearly training events, who have the best military equipment in the world and don't refer to citizens of this great nation as "colonials".

It seems the brits are just as intent on gutting a useful capability as Canada was a decade ago. I would be willing to bet that in four years, they will have such a critical shortage of Jumpmasters, riggers, aircrew and their associated skillsets, that it will cost millions to resurrect the...

Ummmmm, yes, or get the F out. If you can't function in basic trg, where you are only a tenth of as hungry/tired/sore you'll be at later points in your career, just leave, it's only a taste of things to come. The working conditions get worse, and the amenities (food/water/sleep), and...

Half of the stuff in our jackets/cadpat ist verboten anyways. I would like to have a video camera for the reaction of the QMSI/RSM if I walked into my unit lines with; My hood on my jacket up, Hands in my handy fleece pockets, Bottom string tied between my legs to my front button, The strings...

All of the ESS goggles are made to the same ballistic specs, which are standard issue to the USMC, and a few other units. This seems to me, to be a moot point, as the ballistic glasses we currently have issued won't stop a vigorous sneeze. Since they are basically just industrial safety glasses...

Danners are truly the Rolls Royce of military footwear - and priced similarly too. If you take care of them, they can be re-soled a few times, and the desert ones are nice too!

As we like to say in the regs - "wives come and go, your career will always be there for you." A good training wife can help you not make the same mistakes in the future!  ;) Seriously though, nobody in an online forum can answer these questions for you.

I can only think that that is a holdover from the old smock that has the six button "diaper" sewn into it for the same reason. At first blush, it would seem like a good idea, but for jumping, you have enough straps holding your jacket down - I've never had a problem - although, as mover said...

I'll get you one if you trade it to me for your ESS turbofan goggles!

Here you see the new DND HQ environmental dress, tux and tails with the new brown beret, worn in the same manner as the other colors!

I'd take it a few steps in the other direction and say that OCdt trg and recruit trg should be common until week X, at which point they would be split into their seperate streams, (officers learning sword drill, the differnt ways the CSD applies to them) etc. There is little difference between...

I've also used this stuff inside motorcycle helmets, but have found it ineffectual for tactical goggles, especially combined with dirt and copious amounts of persperation!