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I met him in Victoria doing research for a paper in 4th year - 1978. Great great guy! So long Sam!  :salute:

I met him at CABC Edmonton back in the late 70s Super guy!  :)

Hi Everyone If you've ever wanted  a good intro to background and issues of WW1 and some fanstastic Canadian content have a look at http://www.cobwfa.ca/COBWFA2011/ In March we'll be looking at Passchendaele In April we're supporting the dedication of a Native Canadian's Grave in Toronto and...

Shameless advertising here - the site needed a clean up and Xmas Holidays are just so handy However there's something for Canadian VC history fans at Personalities - Lt Lyall See http://www.102ndbattalioncef.ca/ Happy New Year everyone!

Sorry I asked if anyone has read the book  :o If you didn't you can probably overlook this amazing factoid as well http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-07-28/tech/30049957_1_cash-balance-apple-debt-ceiling

I guess no has read the book :)

You have several good points Off the street trades like these below were seen in many crappy places in the last few years. Doctors - engineers with experience both mil and civ - legal - technicians on the civvy side - coffee servers to name a few. If you need a hard to find body - how's the...

Anyone read the bio on Steve Jobs? I just finished it and its quite a read. Some points They got people when they wanted them - unlike our mil or civ recruiting process - especially relevant to reserves I think They fired people when they had to - quickly - no BS Admin Review for him They...

What made the Legion go downhill? This is just my concept which is as follows It probably had a good membership base as long as we had a large Armed Forces. Certainly we had this until the mid 60s with many veterans from WW2 and Korea being potentially available as members. That was the era of...

A while back the Army published a directive to move Reserve pers on callout who weren't in their local unit area and aval for parades, to the Primary Reserve List (PRL). Without going into the why or wherefore of parades were never a part of the deal, if we were supporting the greater need...

I'm only commenting on the words here and not MCG Think about this business of Reserves only Support and Train reserves and nothing else. To my mind this completely de-links Army Reg and Res Forces Got trouble somewhere? Come on down. No Reg F deployed? Stay the hell away is the message I'm...

Its not the generals Its an amazing number of officers above Capt to Col at Fort Fumble Check Outlook on the Din Search for Maj Clip into the To box of the email Then clip that list of addresses into Word and use search replace Insert Bloat for Ottawa What number comes up? Repeat for...

I have anything Sen Kenny says on "delete" / "trash" / "ignore"

Hi I was just out in Shilo and spent an hour racing through the excellent Artillery Museum Watch the slide show here and see your Honest John http://www.cobwfa.ca/COBWFA2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=18&Itemid=63

Think about it You 'k up consistently - you get fired Yet 150 plus people get hired to pay 99 files out? Where is the leadership? What a classic case beyond SNAFU! My view of the OAG team who wrote the report IDIOTS  :rage:

First trip back since our Phase 1 ROUTP in 74 Here's a slide show on the Museum which is Simply Excellent http://www.cobwfa.ca/COBWFA2011/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&layout=blog&id=18&Itemid=63 There's a link to the trg area called Camp Hughes which was used pre-1914 to pre-WW2...

Get some Combat Divers get some Caribou (not the meat) out of the flooded cellers repeat  :nod:

The times loook consistent - I like the idea of training for half of it very well - as you have to come back When I went - I had my hand held GPS and I was right behind the marker and telling him he was over speeding (> 5.3 km an hour) My point is get it down on time and save your energy -...

Yes - got dragged down hill and dragged my partne uphill Trench dig was frozen so we got a freebie

I'm going to Shilo for 28 Apr - 9 May for the Western Defender Activity Does Shilo have Telus coverage or roaming out there? Any news appreciated