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It‘s a great training aid, too. On our DP2A course this week, we were doing C7 coaching on the system. Although we did use the "auto zero" function because we were short on time, the intent was that we could have assisting the firer in correctly zeroing the weapons on the line -- as we will be...

linear Rosa, to quote Neil Young: "It‘s a kinder, gentler machine gun hand."

Gunner, this whole issue of having the ammunition to train properly was highlighted today on my DP2A machine gunner course. We have very few proficient MGers in our unit, even though several have taken MG courses and fired many thousands of rounds through the C6 and C9. The reason? It takes...

This thread reminds me... I used my Gortex wet weather boots for the first time two weekends ago. They are still sitting in my closet, quite muddy. What is the most effective way of cleaning this boots? Warm water & stiff brush? Just the brush? I am concerned about getting water inside the...

I think there is a vast amount of shooting knowledge and experience in the civvie world, as well as the military world. There are also total plugs in both realms. I have some experience and am comfortable and confident in my knowledge obtained from civvie shooting experience, and I somewhat...

Ipsofacto, I believe you must also speak French to join the FFL.

As a front line border worker, I can tell you from personal experience the frustration we all feel at our collective inability to do anything to improve or influence immigration policy. We, the workers, know the system is broken. We cannot do anything to fix it, except do our jobs and hope...

I never jam my ruck full, because there is always something else they give you just when you think you‘re carrying it all! From extra C6 ammo to defensive or OBUA stores to meals, to whatever other crap they didn‘t put on the kit list, I run out of room pretty **** quick if I don‘t carefully...

I too nearly applied for Weapons Tech. From what I understand, in the Reserves a weapons tech is normally a trade associated with a Service Bn. On asking around, I was told a wpns tech basically inspects and tinkers with the small arms, replacing worn parts for example, and ensuring the...

Sorry, they will not pay for First Class, unless you are the Minister of National Defence or something.

Just a link for you folks who want to look up Treasury Board travel pay charts, etc... The benefits are quite generous, and I can see why the DND would want to reconsider paying them if they didn‘t think they had to... http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pubs_pol/hrpubs/TBM_113/td-dv-c_e.asp

Under Treasury Board rules -- which apply to the entire public service, RCMP and DND -- a person is entitled to receive certain pay & benefits when assigned to work temporarily away from their normal duty location. xFusilier is correct. If a DND member is entitled to receive pay under TB...

According to the "book" on the JTF2, the reporters and everyone else in the world know all about Dwyer Hill, and occasionally weirdos with time ontheir hands have shown up snooping around. But I don‘t think they get anywhere or see anything.

Bratok... 3 stages now? Sounds good to me! Scarlino: Last summer we had to dig the ol‘ trneches for SQ, and my fireteam partner and I never got past Stage 1, the shell scrape. I wish I could tell you exactly what the other stages were, but we were only briefly shown what proper trenches...

Wasaga Beach is where the troopies go if/when they get weekends off. I recommend Sauble Beach, just as far away and although it‘s a smaller town, has just the same stuff as Wasaga, and no 17 year old course candidates out for their first drink ever and causing a ruckus. On my course at Meaford...

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Some of the tiddly bits you may get include: - Fighting Order - Webbing complete (belt, mag pouches, butt pack, utility pouch, canteen holder, kfs holder, bayonet frog, straps and yoke, plus canteen, canteen cup, and kfs) - Helmet, helmet cover - Scrim net and scrim (if you‘re lucky) -...

Oh, they still CB... at least, they did last year at ATC Meaford (then again, it IS run by the RCR) On my SQ/BIQ we had to "earn" our priviledges. And right from weekend #1, when we couldn‘t leave, we still couldn‘t mess around and had to follow the pl comd to the beach (at least it was fun)...

RJG, you won‘t have any trouble being a small guy in 2FER. We had a couple of engineer‘s attached to my sect for the FIBUA/OBUA phase of Stalwart Guardian last summer, and they weren‘t big lads at all. Although they were kinda bored... we didn‘t let them play infantry very much, and the...

MJP you are correct. I read it the same way you did... Incendiary includes flamethrowers, etc., but does NOT include "tracers, illuminants, smoke, etc" rounds. I don‘t think the incediary effect of a common 5.56mm or 7.62mm tracer round will do significantly more damage to a person than the...