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I've got a PLB which I use for camping, kayaking and the like (ACR ResQLink) which uses 406 as the main and for GPS coordinate transmission and from my understanding 121.5 for local homing. It's nice to know just how accurate these little things can be, and for about 250$, the peace of mind it...

Did Colt not lose the M4 contract to FNH a few years ago? That certainly wouldn't help their bottom line.

Well, searching for the NSN via the googles has yielded the following document: https://buyandsell.gc.ca/cds/public/2013/05/29/8c32aa745770d95dcfede4ff5e00e580/ABES.PROD.BK__PR.B758.E61897.EBSU000.PDF The contract is for the modification of the exiting bivy bags and installation of a waterproof...

Looks like a shoe-in for the contract, pun intended. http://soldiersystems.net/2015/05/21/sofic-2015-airboss-defense-extreme-cold-weather-mukluk/#comments In the meantime, I have seen this issued out to a recruit with "interim extreme cold weather boot" on the label, arctic CADPAT and all.

If you like to sleep cold, do as suggested here. If you don't, follow what I posted. Use your ground sheet and you will not have an issue. It may not be sexy, but it works.

Not abnormal. Get yourself some Nikwax Tx wash in, follow the instructions, and you'll be good to go. It's a breathable fabric that requires some care every once in a while, with a DWR coating being a huge help in providing some protection from the elements.

Well done, a few of my co-workers have been lusting over the iOS version for a while.

A discipline in which we have a lot of SMEs it seems. Perhaps we should open a Centre of Excellence on self-licking ice cream cones? We could house the Directorate (maybe it's a branch now) of Basket Weaving (Natural Fibres) in the same location!

Brihard, your home unit (and where you know you belong) has a reserve augmentee in Poland as we speak. You should know the gingerling as well. 

How about ironing the Improved Combat Uniform...that should bring it back on track, no? /end tangent

Unfortunately that has already begun...as is the idea that one should iron their combats.

Gladly jumped into the fray with a subscription. This repository of corporate knowledge is well worth preserving.

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On the reserve side here: got promoted from Cpl IPC 4 to MCpl IPC 4. Very little in the way of increase, but an increase nonetheless.

We sent away OD IECS gear as well as cold wet weather boots from what I've seen. Seems more like a gift to the enemy than anything else, though the Ukrainians will surely be adopting the prone position, whether by choice or by virtue of their footwear.  :P

Same op-ed, but the supporting arguments for what comprises "the best rifle possible" are what some of us have issue with. Without these arguments, one could arguably say that the M4 is a competitive platform vice the current alternatives. The M4 of today is not the early M16 of which the author...

I find this article to be quite ignorant of many facts, the low hanging fruit among them being the cost. Believing that the cost would be about 1k for a rifle, suppressor, and trackingpoint-esque sight is a little out of it, even with massive discounts for volume. The reality is that the...

Should hope a few people will get charged for this, but realistically, we'll just re-elect them again. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/liberals-paid-10-000-to-have-data-erased-opp-1.2877944 Peter Faist, an IT consultant and spouse of former premier Dalton McGuinty's deputy chief of...

There are REO's for infantryman positions in 3RCR now, as well as tons of tasks coming down to join 1 or 3 RCR recce for exercises due to MATA/PATA backfills (at least that's the excuse). I've only been in since 2006 but I don't recall ever hearing about stuff like that before now. Was it like...