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La-dee-da.  If I remember correctly, you said you were a volunteer ... ? (i.e. unpaid, and therefore not a professional ... ???) I'm dismayed that you seemingly have such a lack of empathy for somebody who has been assaulted ... especially since spitting upon a victim is such a debasement of...

I'd been wondering whether the three accused lived in Regent Park, or were there for other reasons. Here's a partial update...

Several years ago, the 48th Highlanders were training on a weekend morning at Moss Park Armoury.  A section was outside for a fresh air break, and one Highlander spotted a homeless man being assaulted across the street.  Without hestitation, the Section Commander immediately led his troops...

Ooops - I'm getting so accustomed to your common sense and insight (Great Chieftain of the puddin race), that I'd associated it with you ... but of course I should have remembered Gunner ... (he's probably going to smack me for forgetting) I'm a goalie - big is good for goalies.  And, those...

Wow - I'm having a flashback ... I once knew a fellow who was ordered to stop wearing his uniform for this very reason (and, to illustrate his girth ... when they made his kilt, they had to take three kilts and cut the apron off of two of them ... and, no - I'm not kidding/exaggerating ...) We...

A person was just promoted where I work - the buttons on his CADPAT shirt should be registered as Restricted Weapons (or, in the context of this thread ... Prohibited). So, why did he get promoted (especially when he's never been on an operation ...)? Simple:  Because somebody higher up was...

1.  They've got their hands full trying to deal with the survivors. 2.  "Convergence" is a phenomena associated with disaster response, whereby responders (and well-intentioned but often untrained volunteers) converge on the scene ... sometimes tripping over each other. 3.  The absolute best...

I disagree (i.e. if domestic violence is defined as "violence related to a domicile", whereas Senner killed her hitherto consensual lover - legally, I believe Senner and her victim did not constitute a domicile). As for bullying and abuse (physical, mental or emotional), I've my own very strong...

Not sure which point to address first ... Okay - re: "knock against our allies" - personally, I've lost my inferiority complex with regard to comparing our Canadian Army against many other. Now, as to "culturally sensitive" - well, I have to admit I've seen cultural insensitivity under many...

A truly remarkable RCAF vet: http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1124920225306&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home

Couldn't agree with you more - hockey's a team sport, one of our national sports (nicknamed "War On Ice"), and our Army needs all the nationalistic team players we can get ...

Your points re: hygiene are valid. However, specifically in regard to the PRT, there are mitigating factors (i.e. "When in Rome, do as the Romans ..." is equally applicable in the predominantly Muslim culture of Afghanistan)

The Army taught me some great lessons - to be prepared for catastrophe - to endure being bored - and to know that however fine a fellow I thought myself in my usual routine there were other situations in which I was inferior to men that I might have looked down upon had not experience taught me...

Example:  Back on Op APOLLO, there was the story about an oil rig company that was willing to donate some drilling equipment to support the PPCLI ... hmmm ... now let me think ... what possible use would well-drilling equipment have been, in protecting Canadian troops, by winning the hearts and...

Ya know ... some people are just a little too quick to use the word "obsolete" ... http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1123969809699&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes P.S.  A...

"Waste no time arguing what a good person should be. Be one." -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I don't have cable, so I haven't seen SG Atlantis (yet). However, for me, Stargate is like Star Trek - I liked it from the beginning, and it's like those crude jokes that Molson Export paraphrased: "... any Ex is better than no Ex ..." (with the exception of that debacle with whatever that...

"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let's go inland and be killed." -- General Norman Cota (on Omaha Beach, 1944) "I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death.  Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not...

Once upon a time ... I was in Recruiting. The best thing you can do for yourself is to finish your education. That's not advice - that's a fact. It's difficult to be "competitive" with others who've finished high school, or even college, if you've only got the "minimum" education ... (read...

Gentlemen, Orders: 1.  SITUATION.  As your new CDS, I view it as essential for Canada to have the ability to deploy military forces by sea - in essence, an "expeditionary force" capability. 2.  MISSION.  YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY PURCHASE TROOP-CARRYING SHIPS. 3.  EXECUTION. 3.a.  Concept of...