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  1. Northern Touch

    I'm a in trouble for basis training?

    Don't worry about it, you'll do ok. They will build you up with push ups its not gunna be like "do 50" the first day your there. Just enjoy the...half way down....3 quarters....all the way...half way up....3 quarters....all teh way up...  :blotto:
  2. Northern Touch

    What do you get issued at BMQ?

    I did it with the reserves but I found that a couple little extra things will help you along the way. Runing shoes, get a good pair from a store that knows their stuff, like the Running Room. Insoles, your boots don't come with any really, so get 2 good pairs.  Spend the money, itll save your...
  3. Northern Touch

    PT Standards on BMQs Today

    PBI, after comming of BMQ/SQ this summer, I think it would be safe to say that there is an issue of PT and PT standards in the reserves.  Many of the people on my course wished we had more PT.  Our runs weren't extremely long, maybe 4km and the same goes wiht our ruck marchs.  There were only 2...
  4. Northern Touch

    A Canadian Soldier-Good Poems

    I have this one on my door so I see it everytime I enter my room.  He is profane and irreverent, living as he does in a world full of capriciousness, frustration and disillusionment. He is perhaps the best-educated of his kind in history, but will rarely accord respect on the basis of mere...
  5. Northern Touch

    Allergies in the CAF 2003 - 2015 [Merged]

    That we did.  I took one in the neck while in a fire orders class.  Any severe allergy is too risky in the feild.
  6. Northern Touch

    Allergies in the CAF 2003 - 2015 [Merged]

    Don't worry about Penicillin.  I'm allergic and I got in. However, I was rejected the first time because of a "suspected" mild allergy to walnuts which apparently I'm not allergic to in the firt place.  It's weird how the CF works.
  7. Northern Touch

    Pics from Op Athena

    nice pics Kevin, those are ones you don't see everyday. I'm curious tho, has there been any talk of getting the arid pattern on the tac vests?  From far away they must look like a green blob floating around in a sandy desert.
  8. Northern Touch

    Not so typical Physical Exam Question:

    Whether you go to failure or not is pretty much up to the person administering the test.  When I did mine I was pretty much told to stop at 20 sit ups and 20 push ups because I met the standard and there was no reason to do anymore.
  9. Northern Touch

    My Griffin Pics from SG'04

    Those are definitly some of the better pics taken at SG '04 My favorite though is the third one, securing the landing zone with a nice yellow school bus in the background.  ;D
  10. Northern Touch

    Stalwart Guardian 04

    Haha, Yea, I thoroughly enjoyed getting shot in the head with a nice double tap, although the chalk I was in did get props from the RCR guys (refs and safety guys) for actually showing initative and flanking right instead of heading for the bank.  They told us after we were all nice and dead...
  11. Northern Touch

    Three years ago, September 11, 2001 Where were you?

    Grade 11 Entrepreneurship class.  Someone called my teacher to tell him and he turned around to us and said "The pentagons been hit".  I just remember sitting there thinking "hit by what?", but no one really knew until kids form other classes with Tv's began telling us inbetween classes what...
  12. Northern Touch

    Status of Reserve BMQ/SQ

    Well, from what I've been reading and what I went through, I think its safe to say that the standards are slowly being lowered and lowered. I just got back from Meaford for BMQ / SQ and I know that myself, as well as many of the guys in my platoon and section felt cheated on the PT.  We went 3...
  13. Northern Touch

    Those of us returning from summer courses...

    Just back from Meaford, BMQ/SQ. I found BMQ to be a little boring, but SQ was a lot more fun.  I found there to be a LOT of competition between the platoons, which could be good or bad, depending on the circumstances.  (if you were there you would know)  C6 and C9 were a lotta fun and I heard...
  14. Northern Touch

    Just got my call!

    Don't worry about that, they'll show you how to put it together on course.  Maybe if I'm around ill show you ;). I think im just brining everything on the kit list, except the outer sleeping bag.  Right now I got my rain pants, jacket and extras liek camo, foot powder, ligher, matches, bug...
  15. Northern Touch

    Just got my call!

    Im bringing my ruck, packed with everything, and then one duffel bag for my extra military kit, and a small duffel bag with some civies in it.
  16. Northern Touch

    U.S. 'friendly fire' pilot won't face court martial

    I'll be the first to admit I know little to nothing about small arms and tracers, but exactly how threating can a ricocheting C7 or C6 round look when you have the ability to reach 20 000 feet in seconds?  I remember it being in or on the front page of the Toronto star, and the F-16's actualy...
  17. Northern Touch

    Just got my call!

    ahh crap, I guess I better get on that biography tomorrow.  Slipped my mind with all the packing.
  18. Northern Touch

    Just got my call!

    See you there.
  19. Northern Touch

    Reservists: Where do YOU work?

    One more student here.  Just finished first year at U of T, majoring in Business Management and Crime and Devience. I do work at a Greenhouse though, and ref a soccer game here or there.
  20. Northern Touch

    Johnson beheading pics are already out! Disgusting, and on a porn site yet!

    Looks like Karma is comming to those who did help murder him though.  Some of them are apparently six feet under at the moment. http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/06/19/saudi.kidnap/index.html
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