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when the mods start sniffing around someone, there is a reason. Shake your head.

Are you on narcotics? I'm just asking because it will have an impact on my answers. You're talking to SERVING Members who are either just back, or preparing to go. Moderate your silliness crrespondingly. BOTH of you. Griff, you're starting to annoy me. Start answering some questions honestly...

well, we're not really that deep.

yep. As did the Tac Vest, the backpack, ad nauseum.  ::)

why?

hey Steve, when the Government of Canada needs the input of a school-teacher on how the Afghanistan mission should be run, I'm sure you'll be the very first person they call.

people in their late teens and twenties? What's wrong with that demographic?

bullshit. This has been a tradition in the Canadian Army for as long as we've had one. again, bullshit. Any troop who gets hammered for speaking up would immediately be able to go to the CO about it. That's why it's done. So the CO can talk directly to the troops. Any NCO or Officer who tried to...

hey Grif, buddy, bubalah...you wouldn't perchance be involved with the selling of this book in some way, shape, or form, and are using Mike's site as free advertising, now wouldja? 'Cause that'd be shady. And rude.

yeah, we get it. You don't grasp who the good guys are. We understand. Enough already.

I'm pretty sure you're funnin', but that's exactly the sort of thing you don't need. It's just an axe, and a fairly impractical one. Too many sharpy/pointy parts to it. It'd tear your kit apart without a specialty scabbard, and you can't use it as handily as a regular 'hawk or hatchet. No...

right then, enough of this. It's silly. No, no this is silly.  No, the whole premise is silly and it's very badly written. I'm the senior officer here and I haven't had a funny line yet. So I'm stopping it.  The thread is over. 

sum up. I've served with Reservists in theatre. On average, they were no better or worse than their Reg Force counter-parts after some work-up training. I'd say the Reservists in Afghanistan right now, especially those wounded, are doing their part. You want to keep thumping your chest, and...

he seems to need a lot of people to hold his hand. Silly bugger taped himself to my ID disk.

y'know what my medals mean to me? Every one is a dead friend. 3 tours, 3 dead friends. I don't look at them unless I have to. I don't want any more, if that's the price I have to pay. This discussion is stupid.

I am SO in the wrong job!  :'(

well, here's something that has always driven me nuts - every OC has an OC's hour, where kicks out everyone above the rank of MCpl (in some cases Jacks go to. Which isn't a bad idea.) and lets the troops go. "What's buggin' ya, boys? What's pissin' you off? Let me have it." And nobody says a...

no. I'm very serious. If some troop coming abck has a legit grievance about how they were treated on their return, I want to know. I'm in a spot where I can be heard, and I have enough 'cred' up here that I get listened to. I may get told to piss off sometimes, but I DO get heard. I know for a...

man makes sense. As an aside, since the docs don't let me play in the weeds anymore, can anyone enlighten me as tot he new bayonet? It seems fairly well thought-out, but I'd like some first-hand experience. It has most of the features I'd choose in a fixed-blade (although, that big ol' loop...