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I know this is an old quote but i feel like addressing it. Not sure if you know but Canada already used a four platoon company in Afghanistan. Don't know how both OC's handled the extra platoon, but it was done.

Can someone explain broom-i-loo to me.

Never mind was too lazy at first to read whole thread, didn't get on computer till late. Read the whole thread and it looks like you need a certain percentage of troops to qualify for a battle honour.

So for R1 and R2 would just 1ppcli and 1RCR get the battle honour because it was their tour, or does 2ppcli also get it. Even though R5 was 2ppcli's tour they sent a company to both R1 and R2. Forgive my ignorance but someone mentioned 1RCR getting the  battle honour, i always thought the whole...

Funny  my hardest course was BMQ. My Driver Wheel and Comms courses were coffee courses. Believe it or not my BIQ was done on weekends. The only course i had to go away for at any length was my SQ. I even done mods 1-5, but nothing has been as difficult as my first course.

Thanks for showing a link to those documentaries. Nice to see documentaries about Canadian Peacekeepers. RIP  MCpl Mark Isfeld.

Thanks tysonlowrie will check it out in the future. Good luck on your research project.

Just released about a few months ago. To answer your question Haggis. I seen troops be all gung ho at the start then their interest wonder. The army is just not for some people. My hearts not it anymore, i think the army will always have its long time troops and its short time troops. I'll still...

the 48th regulator, i get the feeling your really upset that this guy is writing about canadian soldiers in Bosnia area and not the Croatian area. Never knew this was a touchy subject amoung troops deployed in the 90's. I see from your post that soldiers serving in the Croatian area were snubbed...

Thanks for the replies marshall sl and container. Just an update i did go down to F division to talk to someone. At first no one seem to know where to send me for information. Luckly an officer took time out to come talk to me. Like you said you need to reside within the boundaries of the...

I received an email stating a lost 300 mil points for giving false info to op. At the end of the message it says-unless you have the natuional primary reserve bmq course calendar in front of you. You can not say with 100% certainty the op will have to wait until 2014. I never said that. What i...

Op you said you just finished the application process and am waiting to be contacted. To be honested 100% of reservist i know took their bmq during weekends in the winter. Bmq land and biq are usually summertime. These courses have always ran from january to april, 2 weekends on 1 weekend off...

I wouldn't concern myself with trying to a specialist position(whatever that is?) in the reserves if i was you. What you need to be focus on is getting qualified. Do bmq,bmq land, and then biq. After your qualified you can now be asset to your unit. You beable to go out and participate on...

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Hi was wondering if anyone here did rcmp auxiliary. I talk to an officer on the phone and after he ask me what i thought it was i said auxiliary is the eyes and ears for the rcmp, it's volunteer, minimun 160 hours a year, he said i was bang on. So i did look on there website and did talk to...

I think canada not being in a combat role has a hugh effect on why soldiers are leaving. I was told during war the line up for recruitment is long, but gets shorter as chance for combat dewindles. I know some guys are staying in because they keep saying " another combat tour may show up, and i...

I hope i'am not going to far off topic here. But to the op, if your going to purchase a non military issue knife, just make sure you have things like a pen and paper with you on hand. I seen a few  sgt/wo lose their heads when they find a new troop with a knife to look cool, but do not have a...

That was good. Thanks for sharing.

attaboy coin? tour coin? i guess there more then one style of challenge coin out there. I won't lie, i have seen other coins out there. It's just that i always thought the regimental coin with your own specific number was the only one that truly mattered. As it was proof that you really did...

Thanks for the info, much appreciated