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    Tyson   227 is correct keep your math skills up ypu will require a fair amount of math to complete Poet. I am sure there have been changes since I wrote the poet course in 93 but electronics is math based to promote the basic concepts.     As a LCIS tech the whole of the Forces is open...

      Bossi has a point lets clean our own house first, I feel it has to start with our senior offs many have no idea what a young soldier faces in the field or how to respond to his needs if he is farther than 30 km from Ottawa.       There that is my rant for today.                    ...

        The military serves the will of the Govt. If our politicans lack fotitude and vision so   will the Armed Forces.                     Regards Old F of S

        This is not new, in the 70s the CAR trained in Jamacia for jungle warfare. I was Sigs support 2 years for the exercises and it is about time they brought the training back.                             Regards

        Does anyone remember an RCR Cpl nicknamed Squirrel, my contact with him was on UNEF 2.  He ran the Jr Ranks mess in Camp Shams, I have never forgotten the show he set for Xmas arranging for belly dancers to entertain the troops, not one of them was smaller than a Sherman tank.  He made...

    The postings could be to almost anywhere comm gear is used throughout the forces I would suspect that being land element would likely preclude air bases,                       Regards Old F of S

      Affimative action has been in the Candaian Forces since 1970 it was called Francaphone Bypass. Any oldtimers will remeber it well.             Regards

          Retired 30 years reg force           1CSR           CFS Alert (3)           CFS Inuvik           CFS Leitrim           CFSCEE           CFS Bermuda           79 Com Regt           UNEF 2, Golan           Now a flat faced civy and enjoyng it.                   Regards

      052   Your Father may qualify for the SSM the 125 & Queens Jubilee are both closed.                               Regards

      Table of  equipment   I don't know your location but any unit in your area would have a TOE. I have only used them at Regt level. I am not sure one exists on a National basis if it does the only copy is likely in Ottawa.             Cheers

                  Rent a civie house sounds like LET THEM EAT CAKE.

    As a junior tech I worked on that first computer, the tubes were mostly diodes and triodes and maint consisted of testing each tube. By the time you finished the last tube it was time to start at the first tube again.

      ATIS fix equipment sleep in clean sheets, LCIS fix equipment sleep with no sheets, COMM RSCH operate high tech equipment sometimes sheets and sometimes no sheets.       The key words are fix and operate .

    Are we sure Trudeau is dead, or is hiding in the  PM office.

      When I joined the army was at 65000 then along came the liberals under Trudeau when I left all forces combined eg air,sea and land was barely 60000. I don't trust a Liberal govt when it comes to funding the forces.

        Times have changed when I joined the RCEME Corps in 1965 we were sent to one of the infantry regts for basic. In my case it was 2 PPCLI we started with 30 and ended up with 28. I believe the low attrition rate was due to the regtimental structuring of the training.         We were...

    It is not far off the mark, I am sure it would suprise most Canadians of the American involvment in 1970 Dec to be accurate. They assisted at the request of our government headed by Trudeau. They provided tech support and equipment from Fort Hood.     So its not all fiction.