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A man by the name of Mikoyan would have been very interested in those plans and equipment...

So what does that make the guy who taught you turns on the march? ;) Crap- where did I put my prune juice? As for teaching all sorts of cool drill movements on GMT (or BMQ), sometimes it‘s difficult enough just getting all of the recruits moving in the same direction at the same time...

Well, I found the nominal roll for RNR online, and there are 6 RSM‘s on it: 338 RSM Galgay Nicholas Augustus 1385 RSM Gullicksen Ernest 404 RSM LeGrow Frederick P 51 RSM Patrick Neil 534 RSM Paver George 909 RSM Peckham Harry R Since Neil Patrick has the lowest regimental...

A brigade group is supposed to be able to conduct independant operations in the field (hence the extra support units). Whereas a brigade needs support from a division to operate in the field.

Well, IMHO, France is a more homogeneous society than Canada. The three tenets of the revolution (liberté, egalité, fraternité) seem to hold pretty well, and fraternité is the kicker. The idea is that all Frenchman should feel fraternal towards each other, and shouldn‘t think of themselves as...

No. But let‘s just say that the soldiers‘ sense of justice in this case was a little more... creative than is normal in a democratic justice system. ;) I would think the US army has SOP‘s to deal with looters in Iraq. I have a hunch that they don‘t involve shooting inanimate objects and...

According to the question of the week thread, yes they were based out of Halifax, but it wasn‘t Brock. http://army.ca/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/7/203/8?

I don‘t think it‘s a regional difference. Most people ask about Quebec just because they‘re interested in other parts of the world that speak French. It‘s just a minority that obviously think Quebec should separate- and they tend to go away in a huff once my opinion has been made known. :D

To be more specific, the two uses of the term regiment fall out like this: All modern units that historically derive from cavalry (armour, arty, sigs, engrs, recce, etc.) use "regiment" to mean battalion-sized (ie two lines on top of the NATO map symbol). They are also divided into squadrons...

Actually people in France are quite interested in what is happening in Quebec. When they hear I‘m Canadian, I get asked about it all the time, in varying degrees of militancy. I was even asked once how our Quebec brothers were doing in their fight against the English oppressor. They weren‘t...

Another thing to note- this stuff is a lot heavier than air. If it were released in a tube station (a poorly ventilated area with lots of people) it would stay in low lying areas and linger for a long time. Ventilating it out would be very difficult. If it was released in a big station with...

Jurors unanimous in picking retired lieutenant-general‘s book OTTAWA - Romeo Dallaire‘s book, detailing his experiences as the Canadian commander of United Nations forces in Rwanda in 1994, has won the 2004 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing. The jury -- Ottawa councillor Clive...

Future- Call the unit in your university town and talk to them about it. I know of at least one case where my unit hired a guy who was coming to Queen‘s in the fall, even though he went through CFRC in Toronto. He had to come to Kingston for a day or two in the spring during the application...

So your voice is being recorded and fed into a software package, and then when the software recognizes a key word, you hear a click as it records the data? :rolleyes: That just doesn‘t make sense. Why would the software click at you? I‘m not saying the phone line you describe isn‘t bugged...

Well your credibility just took a big hit.

My iron ring ceremony was very inclusive. The Wardens of Camp 7 (Kingston) did their best to make the ceremony gender neutral. Even though there were Christian overtones, I wouldn‘t say that it was a Christian ceremony (being an atheist, I tend to gloss over all the references to God...

And the jokes just write themselves... Alfonso Gagliano- sponsorship mastermind, and bumbling ambassador to Denmark- two scapegoats in one! It‘s not about fishing rights, it‘s about the oil, man! It‘s all a big conspiracy. The Danish Oil & Gas Company (DONG) (I didn‘t make up that name-...

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/040325/w032546.html KABUL (CP) - Workers melted the last of Kabul‘s known landmine stocks Thursday, recasting them into iron grills for wood-burning stoves. Enthusiastic Afghan workers at a bombed-out industrial complex in Kabul tossed 2,490 of the defused iron...

It‘s called The Liberty Bell March, and it was written by John Philip Sousa (hence the American sound). The Pythons made it much more well known though... ;)

Reserves is not a full time job. If you don‘t know what you want to do aside from the reserves, you may as well do a 3 year engagment, and throw everything you‘ve got into the one interest you‘ve expressed so far. After 3 years, you‘ll be 21, with a little cash, and plenty of time to go back...