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- If this was old country back in '44, the administrative saboteurs would be hung by piano wire from meat hooks, and their families sent to the camps.

- There are entrenched 'sleeper agents' from the anciene regime whose sole purpose in the bureaucracy is to de-militarize the defence budget in every way possible. They try to spend as much of it as possible on tearing down old buildings that are still good, building new buildings that are not...

- Put the injured officers and NCMs in the Recruiting Centres. Take all of the current recruiting staff and post them all to combat arms units for three years.

- We joked in CFE that the most realistic part about "First Clash" was the story location: north of CFB Baden-Sollingen. In fact, at the end he did have one of the Cdn leaders feel that we they been hustled back, and perhaps did not accomplish as much as they had hoped. - We put too much stock...

- In many ways, it is easier, as their security detail may have been pulled back or diminished.

- On a theoretical level, I am not comfortable with weapons selection being the purview of only those who have "..used and seen and dealt...". - On a practical level, humans can be crushed, impaled, burned, irradiated, asphyxiated and poisoned. I see no difference between napalm or fuel-air...

- I always loved those "x amount of minutes to live" urban military legends. Not too many peer reviewed papers backing them up, sadly. - I thought that "Red Army" by Ralph Peters was the more likely outcome of a Heavy Metal war on the Central Front. It was a good book to read in CFE and got...

- Corruption is not limited to China, clearly. As well, we could certainly look at adopting their maximum penalty for it. It does cut down on repeat offences.

- Scenario: November 2017; On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, a Tu-160 sleds across the Canadian wasteland undetected, pops up over Kansas City, parachutes a large bust of Lenin over the town, and sneaks into Venezuela without being intercepted successfully. You do not need a...

- This will not end well.

- The 'modern weapon is as good a three of the old ones' theory is only relevant if competing adversary weapons are also built at a one to three replacement.  - We don't have 120 leopard 2 MBTs.

- At any given time up to the early seventies, we probably had more people engaged in the secure storage and training for the use/launch of nuclear weapons than we did peacekeeping.

- We had over 350 Centurians. Original plans called for 850, but we never bought the additional 500. The crunch came in 1970. We lost 3 Brigade and the RCD in Gagetown were no more, to rebadge the Strathconas in Germany to RCD and move south. The FGH parked their tanks in Wainwright then...

- As far as carrying things go, there is a reason the 3/4 to Dodge M-37 and its forebear was called "Weapons Carrier" in US service.

- My recommendation for a calibre is 7mm 08. It is a .308 necked down to 7mm. Soft recoiling, superb long range target round. - For hunting, all round, the .30-06 is never a mistake. - Don't get a magnum. - If you want a varmint round, I would go 6XC. it is a .22-250 necked up to 6mm. - I...

- There is a reason we always called it "202 Paintshop."

- Scorpion et al would have been a nightmare. As it was, we were effectively cut off for Cougar turret parts when England went on strike (again), or so were told... then, in 1980, all of these turret parts started showing up with the stuff marked "ROC - Iran Only". The Brits weren't on strike...

- it is like anyplace else: you walk in and stand in front of a desk that has a person sitting in it and say "Good morning, I want to join the Canadian Army and become a Strathcona". Everything else is up to them.

- Just another housewife now.

- Thanks for the information. Good to know.