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Alexander Nevsky (Eisensten, 1938) is the best war firm ever made ... Then there's ... . . . . . . . ... then there's SFA, in my opinion.

My old and dear friend LCol (ret'd) Lance Drummond (Signals): Lance passed away peacefully and gracefully at the age of 86. Lance was predeceased by his wonderful wife, Joan. To all who knew him, Lance was a "Big Personality". His penchant for a good time was infectious. He was...

Helmets on 🪖 In the old, old days the army had a Provost Corps; it had three main roles: Handling PWs; Traffic control; and Assisting units in maintaining discipline - but it was always clear that units, not the MPs enforced "law an order" in the ranks. The RCAF had a security force - my...

I recall a briefing on the occupational survey. They used relatively 'easy' to compare things like cook, clerk, vehicle mechanic, avionics tech, multi-engine (transport) pilot and, and, and ... then the military decided where e.g. infanteer and Navy operations officer (what used to be MARS) fit...

Begone, dull care! I prithee begone from me! Begone, dull care! you and I shall never agree. Long time hast thou been tarrying here And fain thou woulds't me kill, But, i' faith, dull care, Thou never shall have my will. Too much care will make a young man turn grey, And too much care will turn...

I like the ball cap except for the plastic thingy at the back which I think might be easily damaged. If an issue ball cap doesn't have 'em, i.e. is more like the bush cap" worn by the VanDoo guy in the picture I posted then I'm 100% in favour.

The beret came and went and then came back. When I enlisted, 1960, most of us had three caps (Black Watch and Queens own Rifles were different): a peaked forage cap (different pattern for the Guards) with (for most Corps) a coloured band (Signals was an exception - solid blue cap no band) and...

There is some remote possibility of surviving after doing such a thing?

Caution: Geezer Eruption! Bingo! The longer I served the less and less British I felt and the less I valued many of our imported traditions. But, to be clear, based on my own observations and experience - and your views may, for very good reasons, be very, very different - I value our ties...

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The beret made and still makes good, functional sense for them - our "zipperhead" and "greasy" friends. Just like the keffiyeh did for SAS in the 1940s.

He likely did, even before that. He was, I believe, ideologically, opposed to German aggression (see e.g. Mead) and he, and his wife, seemed, according to some biographers, to have been Francophiles.

During the last big, Big, BIG dust up (most of us vs the 'Jerries' in the 1930s and '40s) most Canadians wors a version of the wedge cap. The beret was, mainly, for tank crews and their RCEME helpers.

One can, and I would, argue that "real," ideological conservatives do believe the military is a waste ... maybe, like a fire a department, a "waste" that one is afraid to do without, but a waste, all the same. Many ideological conservatives believe, as Woodrow Wilson did, that peace is possible...

I have no objection to getting rid of 'Heart of Oak' and/or the :"British Grenadiers;' the aim of both, after all, was, and remains, to some extent, to p!ss off the French who, very arguably, remain, as a French diplomat said when referring to another nation (but one with considerable, proven...

Couldn't Canada's (abundant) official language community do something with an old established Navy song like this one?

I cannot recall who said it, but someone referred to my favourite military movie - 'Tunes of Glory' - as being about "the horror of peacetime soldiering."

There's a word for that: competition. It generally benefits the customer.

Back in the late 1980s and into the 1990s I had one of those directorates. In my first year of what turned out to be a looooomng tour of duty in the same job I booked a range day for my mil staff. Someone in the land staff cancelled us 'cause we were 'joint' and a lower priority than them...