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pbi,   our two differences in the way the public view the CF probably stem from our different social groups, (mine was the U of M) and from that I do not think the public understands the capabilities of a modern military,   when I was high school in Manitoba when we did a section of the class...

During my time in Winnipeg last year I really did not see a positive view of the CF, My first hand experiences - outside of Bestbuy, I saw an overweight old Warrant Officer in his Cadpats, with one boot unbloused? - at a Riverside brewery saw an officer in OD combats with long hair just...

I did watch the Truth Duty Valor video on the Canadain Para course, and the US Army Para course on Discovery, they looked pretty similar but watching the TDV video, it looked like the soldiers were jumping from a civilian plane??? Could anyone comment

Another option would be to go through DRMO, this cheaper option would allow for you to piece together a Humvee

Matt, your right, MOLLE 1 and MOLLE 2 did fall apart, Consolidated Supply was brought about to eliminate the trashed gear to be re-issued, and for bringing two sets or extra 782 gear on deployments, that seems silly to me, now two of my Marines instead of bringing their issued seabag to IRAQ...

Not unless you attach the briefcase to a MISSILE

I have always been against personalizing kit, some reasons 1. Having a standard rigging and equipment, allows everyone in your platoon to know location of your Medical Pack, Ammo, Food and Water 2. Military Issue equipment has passed military standards, it is less likely to fall apart, 3. After...

North Korea, "rogue states" and terrorist organizations are the biggest threats to North America, he said. A ballistic missile defence shield would protect the continent from new dangers that rise in the future. " Nuclear Retaliation for North Korea along with rogue states, should be enough of...

The missile defence shield does not work, even in extremely well scripted test cases where they knew launch postion, velocity, tragectory, they failed to get more than a 15% hit ratio,  so the US Government really should keep it in R&D instead of putting it operational.

The 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company is the Army equivalent of my old unit Ordnance Maintenance Company (Re designated CSSB-18, Maint Co for OIF)  I'm not one to criticise another unit but remember there were absolutely terrible sand storms in late March 2003. Some very easy things to...

For Combined Arms units to be really effective, the unit needs to have cohesion, (so the unit can't just be assembled in Country), More importantly all aspects of the combined Arms needs to be under one Commander, Take for example a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) The MEU Colonel has under his...

I was, like the majority of my unit (15th MEU SOC) drunk and enjoying our last night of liberty in Darwin Australia.  Shore Patrol recalled all service members back to ship.  No one could imagined that terrorists flew planes into the twin towers but days later we saw the footage. Before long we...

My Boot Camp Company Commander described Saluting is saying "I am a warrior and I choose not to kill you"  So it really doesn't matter which country they are from

As a 2171 Electro-Optical Ordnance Technician, I have worked on the TOW, Javelin, LAV-25 and LAV-AT, basically everything you have to look through to blow up something,  The CLU is relatively a very simple system,  a lens, a DDC, two Circuit Cards, and a housing,  when the Javelin missile is...

Here is  Raytheon's website: http://www.raytheon.com/products/tow_2b/

The current Tow System is not capable of handling a fire and forget missile,   The TOW system, cannot download to a missile the signals necessary for a missile launched from our current system,   the only signals which the system is capable of sending into the missile are corrections signals to...

A Better Book to read is the DISARMING OF CANADA, it goes much more indepth about the entire history of the Canadian Forces, to explain the traditions of the Regimental System in the Army and our relations with the US and British military throughout the history of the forces and addresses the...

General Krulak (USMC) promoted the idea of a 3 Block War and to be effective on today's battlefield the soldier/Marine needs to ready to encounter on any city block 1.  Humanitarian Assistance,  whether facilitating aid organizations or the distribution of food and water to local population the...

During my time in, I have met quite a few Canucks in the Marines, but most of them had dual citizenship and grew up in the states, the others I have met are Native Americans, and then it doesn't matter about citizenship, Now my older brother who had join the US Navy in 95 as a Nuke Tech, was...

Every month you earn 2.5 days of leave, 30 days a year, the leave you earn while you are in a tax free zone, the days of leave accrued while in the tax free zone are tax free when you return and take leave, but if you acquire more that 60 ~ days at the end of that year you can loose leave days...