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You didn't mention international and national politics, you said information regarding the situation in Afghanistan. I would wager Wonderbread and the rest of us who have been there have metric shitloads of information regarding the situation in Afghanistan, from this very moment and all the way...

As most of you know, the news we get from warzones is sometimes not entirely accurate. I'd wager the missiles or the launcher would have been disabled or at least damaged as the French left. That would encourage them to fire a damaged missile. Or if no missiles were actually even lost it would...

I quit monday. I was smoking pretty hard in Afghanistan from stress and boredom, and when I got back I smoked even more out of deeper boredom. I decided to take a vacation to Patagonia and there will be some high altitude treks and I figure I need my lungs at full capacity for that! I got my...

For May to be a federal minister, wouldn't she have to be an MP? For May to be an MP, wouldn't she have to beat Peter McKay? I am certain Peter McKay will keep his job. My personal prediction is that the Green party will get the highest percentage of votes it ever has, but that will not...

Great score! Glad to hear that a recoilless rifle is out of the hands of the TB, those buggers are a show stopper! Hopefully the successes of 1-08 will be exceeded by the men and women of 3-08!

It would be prudent for a certain Canadian to go to Afghanistan to be an expert on "Canada in Afghanistan"...

I've run into only 2 guys like that in 7 odd years of being a reservist, and the beauty of our system is that they don't have to deploy. If he deployed his opinion might be relevant, but of course if he deployed he would realize the things he is talking about never happened (asides from the...

Loachman, I fear that you may be correct. This Paul fellow probably doesn't have the wherewithal to appeal on his own, but he will be immediately adopted by "peace" advocacy groups as their new messiah.  Then again, the MSM may very well not even notice.

What he did was wrong, and the fact that he is absolutely right out to lunch is even more irritating. What he said will soon be taken as gospel and will no doubt be seen as the general opinion of all of us in uniform. He will be seen as a "brave young man with the courage to say what we are all...

Pieman, PM inbound. Me and the boys I deployed with are looking for a small pack that belonged to one of the fallen.

These "wish list" threads sure tend to get circular, people absolutely refuse to read and post the same links over and over again. We're not going to see Canadian CAS over there by 2011, that is a fact. I would much rather see a helicopter providing overwatch than anything else in the sky today...

Thanks for the link. The guy seems like an ignorant ass.

Maybe I'm not in the loop or just plain missing something, but what is the context of this letter?

Well, its Thursday night where I am!

Yes, I know both Hughes the person, and Hughes the donkey.

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Would they have the balls to contact the families of all of our fallen comrades and ask for permission to use their names? The answer is a resounding NO! If they took the name of a friend or relative in vain I would certainly make their spectacle look like a tea room social. It is disrespectful...

I suspect alot of western journalists who were too young for 'nam said to themselves "gee, that looks like fun" and are trying to create their own "Vietnams" to report on. I don't think the journalists of today (or EVER, historically) understand how critical of a role they fill in a democratic...

One key to preventing and dealing with OSI/PTSD is healthy and productive attitudes among the civilian population that the Soldiers go home to. I've read Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America recently to better understand PTSD before going off to Afghanistan and I've found both books to be...

Excellent, thanks for the speedy reply! I'm on embarkation and I just realized I forgot something pretty important.