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Too true!  I will be forever grateful to the Canadian supply system and its accolytes.

1980, exercise Medecine Man at BATUS.  All live fire, a great go.  Went to ground on top of a cactus, set fire to the grass between my legs firing the Carl G. from prone - lots of fun.  Then my lung collapsed. So, they send me back to the Brit med unit at BATUS.  They promptly diagnose me as...

I know what QR&O's say, but the wearer in these pics claims that it's okay since he's been out (res) for 15 yrs. Party was a company lunch function, contest for best costume, etc.

I get that Munxcub, honestly I do.  I have no problems with legitimate protests per se.  Yet to have a university student stand up on her hind legs and declare that, for her, in order for her to be exercising her democratic rights and freedom of speech, she must "stop things from happening."  So...

This line from the article a couple of pages back, is the one that caught my eye: "For me, exercising my democratic right and freedom of speech is about taking actions to actually stop things from happening," student Jennifer King said. So, if i understand correctly, this student's idea of her...

How does that old chestnut go?  “History is written by the victors.”  I guess it depends on who you think won…. Article link The War of 1812 revisited Chris Wattie, National Post Published: Thursday, September 27, 2007 As early preparations for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 get...

Second battle drill.  ;D

Uplands: '60 to '63 Marville: '63 to '67 Metz: '67 Lahr: '68 to '69  (Flew out Nov. 1st.  Flight was re-scheduled so that the families with kids could trick-or-treat the night before.  Mom smuggled my hamster "Schnitzel" back in her purse.) Cold Lake: '69 to '70 Borden: '70 to '78 ...if you can...

Well, I was going to get a new computer anyhow.  Just heading out now to burn this one.

Last year, in September, I was debating the school shooting issue with some co-workers and I brought up the notion that L-Col. Dave Grossman expressed in the preface to his excellent book, “On Killing.”  I reproduce that section here below: “They [productive citizens – “sheep”] do not want to...

I don't think that would play at all around here.  As far as I have heard and read, the Taliban doesn't have that many air assets that could be confused with friendlies.  Anyone who decided to "shoot the friggin' thing down" would shortly become numero uno on somebody's sh*t list, quite possibly...

...and then boys and girls, nine months later, the momma tank will give birth to a Ferret Scout Car.

Been way too long between war stories. 1984, 6A course in Petawawa.  The leadership school was running two serials at the time; both were housed in barracks near the CANEX.  Old barracks.  My course was housed on the second floor while the other course was above us on the third. One morning...

Just finished Stalking The Vietcong, Inside Operation Phoenix: A Personal Account.  Good insight into what some of the advisors were up against later on in the war.  Also a good look at how the indigenous South Vietnamese in the countryside felt about being caught in the middle.  Author is...

Back to the subject?  Okay, it doesn't matter what age we are. We behave like adults.  G'bye!

Well, now that THAT'S settled ... 

and... There is always a way. The best way is never the easy way. The easy way is always mined. No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection. No inspection-ready unit has ever passed combat. Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous. Never share a fighting...

The wife called work Tuesday to tell me that someone, who hardly deserves the designation of â Å“thiefâ ?, tried to steal my old car.  I had just bought a new car last week because the old one, a '94 RustSunbird died with a cracked block.  It was sitting in the parking lot of my apartment...

1978, after I had already â Å“signed on the dotted lineâ ? and was waiting for a course loading date, my mom, came back home from Trenton (we lived in Borden at the time), and suggested that I should request the â Å“Parachute Regimentâ ? after Cornwallis.  The reason, she said, was because while...

Not really.   He took his release about a year before I did after he tried to hitchhike to England from Norway.   It could be said of Johnny that he lived in his own unique universe.   ;) [Edit] - but that's another story...