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Kalashnikov's legacy clouded by AK-47's deadly toll http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-11-kalashnikov_x.htm "Its genesis dates to 1941, when Kalashnikov was in a hospital with severe wounds from a German shell that hit his tank in the battle of Bryansk in western Russia." "Kalashnikov...

Hang on, did we( the US actually) not already blackmail the Dutch with regard to having them pull out of their East Indies colonies by threatening to with hold rebuilding money after the Second World War. And afterall the British did stop there attack in the Northwest causing a lengthening of...

Okay, I will take a pad and pen with me. If between now and the lecture date you come up with some specific questions and get them to me I may be able to get the answers sooner or I will have had the time to arranged them should there be a Q and A session.

I will be attending and if desired will provided a synopsis of her talk. She was great during the conference earlier this year at U of C. Took time out to chat with a number of service personal who had not yet been to Afghanistan, and then described some of her views.

Mods feel free to move: This is more of a question than an answer but yesterday while going through the Canadian Army Routine Orders from the Second World War/Korea time frame I found an interesting order regarding the awarding and authority to wear wings. Paraphrasing it dealt with injuries...

RIP Cpl. Hornburg  :salute:

TCBF I have copies of the Marlet articles, as for the comments a formal complainant was filled with the ethics staff at UVic over it and somewhere in my files have the copies of those. If I remember correctly we also filled with the UVic ombudsperson. The icing on the cake was when their head...

STN_Trigger  I talked over your site with a few of the Assoc types last night and today. We all came to the conclusion that across the board there is some confusion starting over the August and March dates. Regimental Day (the first Lady P's birth date) the Regimental founding date. So that is...

Already been done and have the T-shirt, did not make the local papers though but made several issues of the Martlet (2000 I think). But on the serious side they always have positions unfilled. I used to plan strategy with the head of PRIDE and the head of the Native Student Union. They got tired...

Ex Sarge, sorry for the delay this quest to a little longer. The Loyal Edmonton regiment received their Lee Enfield Mk 4 No.1 in January of 1943. The source here is Stevens G. R. A City Goes to War, Charters Publishing Company, Brampton, Ontario. 1962. On page 223 referencing Exercise...

STN_Trigger, I maybe wrong but is not the 17th of March celebrated as the PPCLI birthday ? Next as the 60th AGM was just held in Calgary over the Labour day weekend your association information needs to be updated as to who the new President and Vices are, branch elections are coming up too ( at...

It seems there are a pair of sisters by the name of Webb(?) doing just that. CBC had a program titled Lens on last night with an episode called Naked. Chronicling the use of nudity in protest movements, it seems Vancouver and area are the worlds top spots for this form of protesting. Although...

Happy to help Ex, just adding another url: http://www.issafrica.org/Pubs/Monographs/No59/Chap8.html which contains the complete Racial Composition of the SANDF in 2000 by rank. And for interest sake since you brought up the issue of former terriorists. Lephophotho Mashike has just published an...

Ex, found a few things: H I G G S, J A M E S A. 'Creating the South African National Defence Force' JFQ / Summer 2000 http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/jfq_pubs/1025.pdf SANDF Officer Corps: Racial Composition                               Army                                               ...

Vacant seat on the Board of Governors for a student representative anyone ? http://www.uvss.uvic.ca/index.php?page=students-representation The UVic Senate is the decision making body for all academic matters of the University. The Senate is the body that approves course curriculum, degree...

Flanker, try adding your source information. For example the military collaboration which had began in the 1921 with the setting up Sonder-Gruppe R. was still peaking in the early 1930s. As direct Soviet German Military exchanges 1932 "saw multiple educational exchanges and large scale...

Dan, good answer. As usual you are correct and thank you for the source citing. Moving forward in history to Korea. What naval vessel held the record for most trains busted and when was the "trainbuster club formed".

I will agree with that, last night on the news this year's rounds of delayed school openings have been started to announced. Add in the fact the Board of Education trades people wages are now out stripped by thirty to fifty percent by the private sector. But in many cases it mirrors what we have...

iomalley, nice ride but unless that is a "movie" plate on the front or one of those "Fun plates" I would rethink your picture there next time. I seem to remember back in the late eighties and early nineties a Sig M/CPL Corporal losing his pride and joy as it was not to hard to match a plate to...

Bit of anside but RAF 12 Bomber Group is using the Calgary airport for a base in conjunction with exercises in Suffield. CTV Calgary news this am did a story on it. So for you plane junkies how have not seen one. Checked and the is not yet a web link to the story.