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On his return from his trip to Afghanistan, I had the pleasure to speak to the Hon Peter MacKay, Minister of Foreign Affairs.  Since he was on TV eating breakfast at the PRT Kandahar, I asked him what he thought of army food.  He said it was great, and explained that from what he was told, the...

Have dessie name tags and dessie boots (2 pr) that I'm not allowed to wear!  Yay! If they think they are getting them back, they are sadly mistaken!  :)

You are probably better off bringing a needle and yarn and just knitting yourself a new one.  ;D Good luck, though!

Sounds like Jan embellished a bit for the later generations, but yes basically that is the gist of it.  The kid was new to I-garde. The Russian thing was a whole other story that happened before I got there, and allegedly involved Igarde guys tooled up with gats brought in via diplomatic...

At Pearson, we have been pushing for the airlines to deliver the firearms to the passengers in the customs secondary area, under our supervision.  This is already done with a number of other "security items" -- although it is seen less frequently now because of already tight restrictions on...

He retired but not sure he made Staff Sgt when he did.  But yes, I can confirm all that.  Ol' Jan knew his stuff, and he is one guy I would never wanna mess with. Baton training was 2 days at the time I did it, and we used straight sticks.  For kicks, one lunch break we did some sparring with...

Two more reasons why the federal law enforcement agencies are no role model to anyone. Funny enough, although my agency (CBSA) has lots of "issues" with it, they have long chosen not to have their officers wear name tags.  We wear a badge with a badge number which is difficult to read beyond 10...

To be fair, we do have some very nifty science and tech elements in the CBSA which are of great value to the operations. We have a state of the art laboratory, capable of foresnic analysis on fradulent documents, drug analysis, and contraband detection R&D.  We have the office I work out of...

I've got news for you: Even if they armed all BSO's tomorrow, walking off the job is STILL an option.  Here's why: - The Canada Labour Code enshrines the right of employees to refuse to work in a dangerous workplace.  Management has a responsibility to mitigate the risk, not eliminate it.  Even...

As a customs officer (Border Services Officer now) who spent six years working at the busiest airport in Canada, I can assure you that they are by no means "safe" although there is a lowered risk to officers. Without going in to great detail, most of which has been documented already several...

Forgive me, as I haven't worked at a land border crossing, but from what I am told "closing" a border crossing normally involves a Part II - Canada Labour Code work refusal, which invokes a walk off by employees, and with managers and supervisors filling in. So, unless the crossing has no...

For those of you interested in the topic of border guards getting armed, here is a small excerpt from an open-source transcript from the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence meeting of June 19th, 2006: Mr Jolicoeur is the president of the Canada Border Services Agency. As you can...

Security officers should definitely be equipped with use of force protective tools. Reasonably, this could include batons and OC spray.  However, like with all use of force tools, this must come with comprehensive training. Sadly, this does not even happen all the time in public law...

To expand on what Loachman said, VG06 is the first of three "three-block war" Ex's, and SG05 was the last of three cold-war style ops (with a little OBUA mixed in).  IIRC, in SG03 we played the defenders (the live fire was in a company defensive trench system, I believe), in SG04 we did...

Having just come back from Stalwart Guardian this year working with these guys, one of whom was in my wpns pl, I can only say that I am shocked over the whole thing.  Totally didn't see it coming, but I guess one never does. I am sincerely hoping that the scenario turns out to be three lads...

I am going this year - against my better judgement - and I was at the last two SG's. So here's some Do's and Don't for the uninitiated and/or curious, from the perspective of a fairly new Cpl: DO: ... bring lots of non-perishable snacks, both for the ride up and for the duration of the ex. ...

Thanks all for the clarification.  I don't think my unit intended to send me on PLQ anytime before the next training year (Sep 05 at the very earliest). But now I understand what all the DP2B and PLQ(Inf) business is about. No, I probably won't do taskings.  The only way I can beat my civvie...

While one may not care if we're talking about DEU's, you may want to heed this piece of advice when you start buying your own nice business suits for that big corporate office job I know we all want... DRY CLEANING IS MURDER TO CLOTHING! At most it should be done twice a year.  Any more, and...

I am a reserve NCM (infantry) and I completed DP2A a year ago.  I didn't do any courses last summer.  I'm not slated for any this summer. But now that I've recently found myself single (and thus, have no reason to stick around the house all summer), I am wondering:  WHAT'S NEXT FOR MY MILITARY...

Q: How much will I get? A: You will get the difference in pay over the number of pay periods the retroactive period covers.  We were due for the last pay rise in April 2004, if I am not mistaken. Therefore, if you are a reservist, you will get the difference between your 2004 pay, and the new...