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I once spent a good ten minutes sitting in the Camp Julien TOC listening to some fool leaning on the PTT while eating what I would assume was a tube of Pringles or Lays. 

Start dates on the Big Tasking List at work were 28 or 30 May and 02 June.

Thanks for the info, folks.  Never would've thought there'd be such detail on the work schedule of the Ceremonial Guard on Wikipedia. It's sort of a downer to hear that there mightn't be any afternoon training scheduled for the summer; ordinarily I'd be quite happy to spend my afternoons in...

Although there was already a thread pertaining to the Ceremonial Guard in Ottawa, it was locked ages ago. I was wondering if anybody could shed some light on the current training schedule for the Ceremoial Guard, in the event that the situation has changed in the past couple of years...

I may be mistaken, but I was under the impression that the only time anybody marched through the aforementioned arch while in uniform was upon graduation from RMC; as such, it seems almost sacriligious to use it for the purpose of "drumming out" this blight on the CF.  I've never seen anybody...

I was a reg force Sig Op, and I am now a reserve infantryman.  I did it because I had the bloody foolish notion that I ought to go back to university and finish my degree, and the much more legitimate motive of wanting to do the whole "patriotic Newfoundlander" thing and wear a caribou on my...

I think it's funny that he didn't mention the Duke of Wellington among the popular military figures who went on to public office.

Does anybody know when the army stopped issuing benzedrine?  The British paras at Arnhem had the stuff, don't know how widely available it was.

Hello, all. On Thursday night, I received word that I have been accepted for a "general duties" position on TF 1-07.  I'm doing IBTS in December.  I know nothing else.  Would anybody  be able to enlighten me as to some details? Somebody raised an interesting (and disturbing) possibility:  what...

Much obliged, folks.  Got some news at work, this evening, however.  Brigade asked for people for 1-07, my name got submitted (again), and now we're waiting on confirmation from Area.  Things might be looking up.

Would somebody be able to inform me as to 1) which battalion TF 1-08 is being built around,  2) which area the reserves for the tour are being drawn from, and 3) how difficult it woud be (not entirely hypothetically) for a fellow from, say, LFAA to get on a TF drawn from LFWA or LFCA? At the...

Back when I was at the Association of the US Army's annual general meeting (and trade show, I guess you'd call it) when we were sent down for the 2004 Army Ten Miler in DC, an M 249 SAW (C9) on tracks caught my eye.  I'm afraid I don't have a photo of it in digital form, however.  This stuff...

Thanks for the advice, folks. Tomorrow I'll have to speak to my Trg WO again, and ask if there's anybody at LFAA with whom we could get in contact, and see what the delay is, and if there is actually any possibility of getting a position number.  The folks at my end know I'm motivated; the...

I figured this didn't quite fit in with the TF 1-07 thread, so I started a new one. Upon returning to my unit following completion of my SQ and DP1 this summer, I put in a memorandum requesting employment on TF 1-07.  I finished DAGing a couple of weeks ago, and I've been waiting for a position...

In the next day or so, I need to make up my mind whether to drop out of university for another year and go on TF 1-07.  As it is, I am uneasy about the whole thing in light of the quality of training I received on my DP1 this summer; seemed like we were just going through the motions.  If an ex...

Gallipoli.  Bingo.  Great running flick.

"What're yer legs?" "Steel springs!" "What are they gonna do?" "Hurl me down the track!" "How fast can you run?" "Fast as a leopard!" "How fast are you gonna run?" "FAST AS A LEOPARD!" "Then let's see you do it!"

Global village and all.  We all heard the Norwegian "Kosovo" music video, didn't we?

I find it interesting that CAIR took it upon themselves to post the video separately on their own website.  Not just a link, mind you, but the video itself.  Seems like they're determined to be difficult. Judging by some of the articles on the topic, it sounds like some of these journalists...

Oh, shyte.  Didn't have the chance to download it, or send the link to any of my buddies before it got taken offline.  Bloody killjoys.  If anybody has the file on their computer, would they be kind enough to send it to me so that I might send it on to some of my former colleagues in 2 CMBG HQ &...