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GO, I think we had it right in the Airborne Regiment (and SSF) with regard to our smocks, by comparison certainly no worse than say a Royal Marine, UK Para, SAS Trooper,  Ammo Tech or UK Royal Engineer jumper, diver or EOD qualified.  Given that the CONSTITUTION OF THE CANADIAN FORCES states...

Before we continue throwing on qualification badges from other countries it would be a refreshing change to actually don the Canadian stuff we may be qualified to wear (Para, Diver, EOD) on something other than DEU.  However only the Air Force seem to be permitted that one......Total Force...

Yep Geo...after 4 years it's nice to be back on Canadian terra-firma, fully "re-trained" as my last bosses stated . All the best to one and all..... CHIMO.... :cdn: PS...only been back to work for a week or so.....

OPERATION BERLIN- THE RECOVERY OF THE 1ST BRITISH AIRBORNE DIVISION ARNHEM 25/26 SEPTEMBER 1944 By WO (at the time) Old fart.... Of the many war memorials, one in particular stands on the bank of a windswept dyke overlooking the River NEDER RIJN, south of Oosterbeek, in the Netherlands.  This...

Before we go on will you indicate the source where you obtained this figure from. Chimo-Airborne-Ubique

LK, my comments on UK Forces EOD stand; and for what it is worth they are certainly not second hand, I heard it from a friend etc. Make what you will of that. Have a safe contract...

Reference LurkingKuna post below..... etc.... He is basically out to lunch on this. LurkingKuna is wrapping up a bunch of rumours that have existed for years and are not reality based.  While it is true in the UK that there is some realignment ongoing with regard to the location of training...

We are the only Army that I know that does not these days. I hope they follow through and make the change. AIRBORNE CHIMO UBIQUE  :cdn:

SprCForr ...reference your post, nail on head....

Zarathustra, I'll keep this short and simplistic.  Nice post.... Old fart out....

Because they are obviously sympathetic to murdering scum like that viewed through their supposedly educated eyes, I use the educated term loosely. The majority of these people have never visited a country recovering from an oppressed existence, if they had their views would be different I'm...

Paracowboy, I do understand what you are saying, and I wanted to take it that way for myself on the initial read.  I believed though that as written the inference or connotation of the raison d'etre comment can be taken the opposite way.  Meaning that our DS commentator appeared concerned...

I don't buy the raison d'etre comment.   It's about time the myth that our Armed Forces are "peacekeepers first" was put to bed for good.   Peacekeeping is just one particular mission we undertake, as is disaster response.   The raison d'etre is at the end of the day in simple terms is...

Seeing how the PAK Army has handled this, I now believe that sending in the DART is appropriate.   The Pakistan Army has not responded very well at all to this event.   The main problem being a total lack of command and control, thus resources are wasted.   They are certainly large enough to...

George, seems like quite a generic list to me.  And as a Sapper the C4 is thrown into boot. "Sappers do it everywhere" AIRBORNE

The UK still calls it MAT also. In addition we are talking about the "training" of soldiers not the briefing of civilians.

The French remain in NATO to this day.   They remain political members of a military alliance, they withdrew as full players in 1966.  They still particpate (some would say undermine) NATO military operations. :cdn:

That may be so, but the opposite is true of Syria and Iran....particularly Iran....ask a Brit....they are in a fight with Iranian and Iranian trained Iraqi insurgents on a daily basis these days. This is one to follow..... I just hope that no other coalition soldiers are murdered by these...

From the South Asia Tribune "the paper you can trust"  dated Feb 10th 05.  The Pakistan Army Pays More Than Half Million Dollars to Al Qaeda in Bizarre Deal.... Warped or what.....and now they want aid money.... http://www.satribune.com/archives/200502/P1_deal.htm Imagine how many tents and...

Could it be that Donald Rumsfeld went to University up here and perhaps was once even on the editorial staff of the Manitoban... That would explain how he manages to come up with stuff like this: The Unknown As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know...