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- Thank-you. - I want you to know that I really enjoyed my time with 1 CMBG HQ and Signals Sqn in Kandahar and Edmonton (and Wainwright, and Winnipeg...). Great Sqn. Great people.

- You can't have wars without betrayals. Plan all you want, but some Canadians will sell you out to the enemy, or the entity, or both. In a fragmented, fractured society, simple solutions might be the best. Who is going to do the 'wet work' as the Comrades once called it, and how?

"Undersea cans" would be visible by air to their structural failure drpth. In any case, how do you pick stores from them or even bring them up? If they become too high tech, it becomes ineconomical. If the MHE used to access them needs to be high tech, the expendive MHE (material handling...

Hiding things will be difficult. Ground penetrating radar is in use. It is easier to detect 'hotter or colder' things yhan it is to hide them. An ongoing revolution in ICBM accuracy may lead to heavy kinetic penetrators replacing nuclear warheads for precision strikes on bridges, dams, power...

I thank all of you for your kind words and I wish you all the best.

- Your sentence on a more representative form on government reminded me of something: Adolf Hitler could never have been elected in a 'first past the post' democracy. In FPTP, you vote for your neighbour, or his kid, or your old teacher. You know the family. they live there. Hopefully, they...

- Without drawing any similarities to this case, as a general comment, I think that DND often ties its own hands behind its back by limiting the scope of its investigations. I think soldiers who actually served with the subject both in Canada and overseas should be on the stand testifying as to...

I like this idea of yours. We need more Sci-Fi in our Sub-Arctic Banana Republic context. ;D 1. A ground war on a large scale in the high Arctic is a logistic impossibility without air and/or sea power. Even then, it would evolve into a gigantic humanitarian and ecological crisis of big...

- My mother, before she died, told me she thought that I should have become a teacher. In a sense I did - I taught a lot of courses and trained a lot of soldiers in thirty-eight years. I originally joined up for three years, but life has a way of taking off on you. She lost her husband - my...

- The comments are priceless!  ;D

- You can tell him that I said hello and am enjoying retirement! We had first met when he was posted to 8CH(PL) Lahr. I last saw him last fall when he took the time during a visit to Wainwright to speak with soldiers in his bde who were attending a 3CDTC course.

- Wait - are we out of Dragoons yet?

- Ha! No. More like something out of "Kelley's Heroes". Or maybe "Dune".

- There are probably more T-90s in service outside of Russia than inside. Russia has thousands of modernized T-72s in units or in reserve. Their entire fleet of T-80s is out of service and awaiting the scrapyard's torch, and they still have thousands of T-54/55s in 'an enduring stockpile' (to...

- That has never been the issue before, because previous generations of servicemen understood that they could not expect a forward-deployed military (CFE) to care for every social and medical family situation. It would be uneconomical. - Mods, should we cut this to a separate thread? to DAG or...

- We could use them as part of our Foreign Workers Program instead of tearing all of those poor people away from their families, culture, and warm climate so they can hand us a double-double at forty below.

- I can remember alighting out of a Twin Huey onto a frozen river in Petawawa (1977?), only to find that between the snow on top and the frozen river on the bottom was about two inches of water. So, the 1951 'X' designed arctic gear does not excel during spring break up, or 'wet cold'. As for...

- If I was a Recruiting Officer and you told me you had no memories of your past, I would probably immediately and - in a post-modern sense - inappropriately label you as a fraud, a foreign plant, a drug addled derelict or a severe FAS example. All of which would mean that I would treat you with...

- Other than gophers, no. But I want to hunt geese.

- I agree with your observations on our lack of soldiers. It would be interesting to see where our strength sits right now, as compared to our authorised strength. - One of my frustrations - before I retired - was that the ruggedness of our pers had deteriorated badly over the last few decades...