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A short article on recent events in Iraq: a section (troop size) of USMC M777 has been in action supporting local Iraqi forces, and was attacked itself; some casualties including KIA SSgt Louis Cardin Officials are not calling the firebase a Combat Outpost though, because it is behind the FLOT...

Royal Canadian Artillery units are adopting a new cap badge as of 26 May 2016; the attachment has more info

Here's a bit more on avalanche control (typically this is done only by the Regiment in Shilo, 1 RCHA, with augmentation from Reserve units in Western Canada) http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/operations-canada-north-america-recurring/op-palaci.page Something to be aware of, in regards to the artillery...

The milage seems to vary greatly in the stories I'm hearing, for myself it was ~3 months for pension and 8 months for severance; nothing unusual about my case for audit purposes either. There is no interest paid for these delays, the 1st pension payment is just a lump sum for the ones missed...

Good point The article actually does acknowledge how the lack of a coherent strategic plan by NATO forces limited operationally capability, and supports this argument through outline descriptions of various operations. The Taliban one is made clear too, to position themselves to survive until...

The latest issue of Modern War, from Strategy and Tactics press, covers the conflicts within Kandahar region from mid 90's to 2015. It is limited in scope to a synopsis of strategic objectives, with some limited operational background info, of first the Taliban then NATO forces following 9/11...

Absolutely stunning Louie I think that brief trailer captures well the images that haunt many veterans, and journalists that cover conflicts: images of when they were there, jarringly among the images of mundane life in Canada moving on

I think you're referring to this http://admmat.mil.ca/cosmat/lbi/DTn/DTn2/documents/ALM158005AG001_Spreadsheets/Drivers_policies_2014_E.pdf For a duty day (hrs), it states: unless given direction by the Commanding Officer (CO) or designated officer, no driver of any vehicle is to drive...

Kind of like reading any Dilbert cartoon on cost estimates

So now CVA, a shrill organization IMO, wants to turn up the volume? Great  ::)

So the MP's had no responsibility to report to the unit's duty officer that they'd transported a member of their unit to a hospital? What about the fact that they'd been called at all? Something must've caused them to become involved As for terms of reference for a BOI, I've been involved with...

You're making a number of broad assumptions here, the biggest one being that the MP's informed the unit. Once a unit is informed though there is nothing preventing them from contacting the health care facility to confirm that the individual is still there, and what time could they be expected to...

Lt(?) Ehlers, the title of your post is miss leading, since it looks you're talking about some course associated with the Leopard tank, and only lasts 40 days The Master Gunner course, actually the Army Technical Warrant Officer Course Program (ATWO), is run at Royal Military College, and lasts...

Didn't the attack on Goose Green get compromised by a BBC report though?

Here's a link for information on the upcoming reunion in Shilo, 25-28 June 2015 1 RCHA goes out of its way to support it; should be another good one! www.artillery.net/beta/home-stn-reunion-2015-shilo/

Its was a combined 7 Tor & 56 Fd effort, but a 7 Tor gun that flipped I don't know the cause of this accident, but this certainly isn't the first time a gun has been rolled. It comes as a surprise to some that the C3 can actually be rolled rather easily, even at low speed Because the C3...

It was being towed The max towing speed for a C3 is 70km/hr; somehow I doubt they were going that slow on a highway like the 400

All the more reason they shouldn't have been left in that unit's care

When it comes to the C1s', the PEIR have nothing to be proud about; if that stings, so be it, they earned it. Fascinating that the powers that be have entrusted the PEIR with the LG1; they were not supposed to get any, largely for the dismal way they'd treated the C1's That they had the honour...

Yes, I was in South Africa for a about a month doing research on artillery ammunition; the G7 is an outstanding gun, and so is the Igala family of ammunition it fires. The G7 can also fire the legacy M1 family of projectiles. It is interesting that the demonstrator they built with it mounted on...