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I would offer - political expediency.  To maintain the alliance and legitimacy both in NATO and in Afghanistan the US needs as many supportive partners as possible.  The list has been dwindling over the last few years.  If Canada is determined to pull out ground troops in 2011, and the US can't...

Once the renewed Joint Deployable HQ in Kingston reaches FOC, one could see it undertaking this role.  IMO it would be a good compromise for the government.  Pull out the BG and its components as it has declared but deploy the JDHQ in its place.  C2 is an easier sell politically both...

Yes, if Inf is a choice, age will also impact whether the member commands a rifle company, attends staff college (Toronto or otherwise), gets promoted beyond major; all effecting future job choices.

Best advice I ever received, from a General, hang your uniform in the shower, run the shower as hot as possible, gets wrinkles out.  It worked.  I still follow the advice. 

Cheapest and safest accommodation in London is the Tower.  No kidding.  The Fusiliers home station is inside the Tower of London.  I found the email of the secretary and they have two beds, bath / shower and kitchenette on the third floor of home station inside the walls.  Armed guards right...

Perhaps ceasefire.ca could put together a team of advisors to work with the Afghan government in changing the cultural mindset.  Its easy to sit back and armchair general but in order to make informed decisions and provide intellectual commentary, they should experience first hand the...

The ship in the photo could easily hold a bobsled training run inside so they could practice on the way over.  :D

Perhaps an Olympic Team arriving a bit early? 

No motive here.  Its just that we all know how fast rumor, gossip, fact, etc travel in a unit no matter where it is.  If something happens it almost impossible for many people not to know about it.  An example.  At CMTC one night two people decided to get intimate in a blue rocket.  The padre...

Actually I do.  I have had some exposure to the events.  I still don't understand why no one else has ever come forward.

What I don't understand is that if the soldier witnessed this event as he claims, why did he not report it immediately?  To someone?  Morality issues aside, ROE aside, why didn't he tell his section 2IC?  Or a buddy or two in the section?  Pl 2IC?  CSM?  Any of the other tps who were there? ...