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While in garrison, the only good reason to wear glasses rather than contacts is that extra minute in the morning and evening screwing around with them.  Believe it or not, that can be a valuable minute.  Joining instructions for some basic courses will say candidates aren't allowed contact...

I realize there probably won't be many tied votes in the upcoming parliament.  Does the Speaker have to be a Liberal?  Couldn't they nominate a Conservative MP, thus making the NDP king makers?

One question that's been circulating around in my head since I first read the results: with the House possibly splitting 154-154 between Lib/NDP and Con/BQ/Cadman, I am wondering who is going to be named Speaker of the House, and how that will affect the way this Pariliament functions?  (Am I...

I brought contacts and glasses to my basic training, and lost a contact in the first week.  Glasses were definitely much less of a hassle, and contacts are verboten in the field anyway.  My glasses frames had flexible rubber half-circles to hook around the ears, and these were fantastic. ...

That's a big change in the comm research world.  From my (outdated) knowledge of the community, I can easily picture how reservist rubberheads would be employed in Kingston and in Ottawa, but I have a hard time seeing how a 291er in Vancouver (for instance) might be usefully employed (or trained...

Guardian- It's in the transcript I posted.  Schmidt requested to engage with 20mm cannon, but then switched to a GBU 12 when he invoked the self defence aspect of the ROE.  It was approximately 2 minutes between the first report of SA fire and bombs away.  They estimated the ceiling of the SA...

Just an added correction.  There are no reservist rubberheads, and the only one in Res EW is the reg force support guy.  When I was there in the 90's, there was also a reg force rad op, and int op (and some support types).  2 (EW) Sqn has a troop of rubberheads, and one troop of half...

The transcript of the pilots conversations can be found here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/friendlyfire/pdf/ff_transcript.pdf The pilots reported they were being shot at (which turned out to be Canadian small arms fire ricocheting off a burned out tank they were using as a target).   AWACS...

Apparently Ray Bradbury is also upset that his book title has been "lifted" by Moore.  He's asked for an apology, and asked for the film to be renamed.

Guy- Thanks for posting this link.   I haven't had a good laugh like that in a few weeks. So if they're bouncing HF radio waves off the ionosphere and the moon (which is actually a rather inefficient reflector), why is the effect limited to the northern hemisphere?   HF is actually capable of...

Moi j'ai arrivé en France l'an dernier.   Quand j'ai dit "tabernac" le premier fois, personne m'a compris- c'est comme une langue différent.   Mais j'apprend très vite.   Putain de merde...    ;)

Wow.  I'm amazed they have an average of 113 days for level III clearances.  Mine took about 5 months, and was the fastest clearance of anyone in my unit, and the fastest among many people in the int community at the time (although this was 10 years ago).  A friend of mine waited just a hair...

Although I was amused to notice that Iran is keeping the boats and equipment.  Perhaps a bit of shiny kit syndrome?

My former CO (a reg force CELE officer) told me that he had no problems for his P.Eng accreditation, because he had an NDHQ posting leading an engineering project.  Apparently some of his CELE colleagues were having some difficulty with the various provincial accreditation bodies (APEO, APEGGA...

I absolutely agree with you here.   In the first Gulf War, interviews with Iraqi PW's determined that the most effective psy ops pamphlet by far was the one with the message "Arabs should not fight Arabs".   It proved far more effective than arguments against Saddam, promises of comfort in...

Pte. Nomercy- You are still overstating Halliburton's capabilities.  The 800 miles of pipeline across Alaska (which includes a mountain pass or two) were not constructed by Halliburton.  Closer to home, the Alliance pipeline constructed recently also goes through the mountains in northeastern...

Yes, Halliburton has close ties to the US government, and some of their business dealings look a little shady, but some conspiracy theorists give them too much credit.   They are not some large behemoth that is pulling the strings of US foreign policy.   (I know that's not exactly what you...

First, where would we come up with a battle group?   We had to scrape together a company for Haiti, but we have a spare battle group hanging around for Uganda?   Second, wiping out the leadership and power base sounds rather simple, doesn't it?   The Americans are doing that in Iraq right now.  ...

http://www.firstworldwar.com/atoz/parisgun.htm Additionally, for the physics geeks in the forum, the Paris Gun also introduced the concept of Coriolis forces to artillery.   Coriolis was a French physicist in the 19th (?) century who did some work on the physics of rotating bodies.   No one...

The Brockville Rifles, while maintaining their distinct cap badge and battle honours, are administratively a company of the PWOR in Kingston.   Amalgamation of this nature preserves regimental history without too much of a problem.