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This recent episode of the “nature of things” on memory certainly challenges some of the established practices of collecting, and accepting, eye witness testimony https://youtu.be/1W5vhzp92ZQ

Power Play was a cheezie movie made in 1978 about a military coup. It's not a movie about the Canadian military, but the Canadian army did help in its production clearly loaning the use of personnel and equipment. Some of the scenes were shot on Canadian bases, and what looks like the Lahr area...

Map of the Human Heart is definitely about Canadians, although not well known I'd say it's well done The cinematography is amazing The focus of the movie is not the military, it's tangential, but it is this background that's moving the story along Early in the film it's the surveying of the...

Not a FSP, but very useful in learning basic modern warfare tactics is Battlefront’s Shock Force and Black Sea, Shock Force 2 has a NATO module that includes Canadian capabilities http://www.battlefront.com/shock-force-2/cmsf2-nato-module/

Bohemia interactive has a Canadian module for ARMA3 (they also produced the VBS system) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=779256520&searchtext=

Correction to above, Centrum is in Holland, 51°27'43.9"N 4°22'32.3"E

From the book "Warpath", it looks like the Regt as a whole was doing advance to contact through typical lowland country, generally flat and in that particular area they were at, South of Centrum Belgium, they were often going through thick pine forests that were criss-crossed with dirt roads and...

I was with E Bty (para) at the time, and much of what's being said above sounds familiar, including the early call of the Tgt to be unsafe for reason G2G mentions Someone posted a video of this incident on one of the (closed) Canadian artillery groups on Facebook. In the video you can hear the...

I'd agree, it definitely should not be a zero sum game In response to the M777 question, what I'm referring to is a fighting vehicle for the gun det. The truck that tows the gun is just a tractor, it pulls the gun and carries the bulk of Det's ammunition and stores, not many of the gun Det can...

Air defence is making a strong comeback too with the US Some of the CA's "act" function seems to be atrophying, badly, by comparison Canadian M777 Gun Dets ride in 35 yr old MLVW's, while the M777 itself gets towed by any variety of vehicle, few of which are deployable Other than a few more...

What's even more impressive is why McCain knew and memorized the poem, and that he chose to stay there with his fellow prisoners when he had an out

Almost a decade ago, this very topic generated a lot of discussion on the Officer Indoctrination course I attended at CMR, as part of the syllabus on media relations for CFR types At one point we hosted two news producers, one from CBC the other from CTV. The one from the CBC focused on the...

There's a bit of a debate going on social media as to who would be responsible for this run away. Some are saying the driver, IAW the highway traffic act, others say the Detachment Commander (No 1), IAW the drill book FJAG, jump in here if you can

Safety chains only work if you connect them to truck too; from some photos on other news sites it doesn't look like they were Doesn't help either there are a lot of gun Dets using chains and D rings that are too light for that weight of gun; might've been a factor in this case too At any rate...

..or safety chains hooked up (that are proper weight class chains and D rings)

This book covers a battle for a Fire Base (FB) that happened in Vietnam, 1 Apr 1970, near the Cambodian border.  The FB taking its name from a young 1st Cav soldier killed a few days before the battle.  Besides the battle for the fire base itself, it also provides the context to the change in...

Actually, training on the C3 or LG1, IMO, is not the main issue, it is at least a start on the basics Reg F units have taken upon themselves to build on this baseline. For example 2 RCHA has shipped some of their M777 to armouries across Ont so P Res units can get trained on at least the basics...

There was a time when recruits, to the British military, were actually expected to have long hair, even getting extensions if required. This is from an old BBC documentary, but the purpose is described clearly at about the 11 minute mark https://youtu.be/hLVG-EA-N5Y I still think Grossman's...

I recall this subject coming up during a PD session given by Dave Grossman ("On Killing" author), to 2 RCR before they deployed to Afghanistan in 2007. Near as I can remember, the discussion came up during the Q and A part of his presentation, near the end of the day Basically the question...

What seems to be the emerging narrative in these kind of extreme cases, is the idea that the actual murderer is exempt from blame because they were overwhelmed by their mental health situation I think that's a reasonable thing to discuss To me, it sounds self righteousness to limit that...