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Ladies and Gentlemen, I need some help please. A recent edition of the journal Canadian Military History, has an article on "The Special AIr Service Company." I have just got a message back from Wilfred Laurier University saying they cannot supply a copy of this article. Could anyone in...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I believe this newspaper article deserves wider circulation. Being someone who spent seven of the formative years of his life in the (and out) of the three regular bns of The parachute Regiment, which shaped me and made me the human being I am, I must say that I am bias...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The following from The Times (of London) makes a lot of sense. Yours, Jock in Sydney May 22, 2002 Mad dogs and our men go out in the Afghan sun simon jenkins The account ran: “Akbar Khan, heir to the Afghan throne, was forced by his British conquerors to wander the...

Ladies and Gentlemen, This message has got absolutely nothing to do with anything military, But, I felt I should post something re this. In Australia in the media we rarely ever see anything on Canada (and viz versa in Canada), any tv programmes/movies on TV that we see are usually appalling...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The VC graturity (which is tax free) works out at US dollars 3, 120. This in Australia works out at approximately 6,400 dollars, which is equal to 256 slabs (24x375mils cans) of beer, that works out at 16 (and a little bit) cans of beer a day at 4.75 degree proof, which...

Ladies and Gentlemen, further to this. Having had a good chat with a few people it appears that the award of the VC, may run into problems. The officer commanding (receved the Distinguished Service Order) and another soldier (also a Fijian received the Distinguished Conduct Medal) in both...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I find this very bizarre in view of the British Prime Minister (Blair) not endorsing the award of two VCs to SAS soldiers for Afghanistan! Yours, Jock in SYdney May 12, 2002 The Times (of London) SAS heroes may get jubilee VCs James Clark and Alastair McQueen FOR the...

Gents, As you have said a superb vehicle was the Ferret. The British Army got rid of them after the Gulf War, not that they wanted to, but, because of financial cutbacks. In Yugoslavia the lack of the vehicle was a severe problem in the armoured inf bns (after having Dingo/Ferrets for fifty...

Thanks for this Gent‘s, what got us talking was the fact that in the 1960‘s both I and my mate had dealings with the Canadian Army, and at that period of time everything was very much logically and comprehisively organised. As I said initially, the organisation of Ferrets, Lynx, M113 seemed...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Since posting the above, I have looked into my copies of the LsH and 8th H Regimental histories, neither of which give any details of unit organisation, apart from the details of the the vehicles as already posted. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Ladies and Gentlemen, Have just been chatting with a friend, one of the subjects we talked about was the Light Armoured Regiment of the 1970‘s. He spent a few days attached to the 8th Hussars in the 1970‘s, it then a Regular LAR equipped with compot of Lynx recce vehs, Ferret scout cars and a...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Re. Sajer, the following is of interest. I have absolutely no idea where it came from, have received it from half a dozen different sources sources over the years, plus have seen it on a number of different web sites! Yours, Jock in SYdney The Guy Sajer Follies by...

Ladies and Gentlemen, I always thought, armor was French for love? While armour were big greasy, smelly things, inhabited by little huddling groups of men, who are also greasy and smelly things. Always having a brew up, from their constantly on the boil water boiler, and producing...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The following article from Defense Week, states the BV-206 were Canadian, no problems with that. Yet at the same time, The Army Journal has stated that the vehicles were drawn from the 172nd Infantry Brigade in Alaska, and were operated in support of the 10th (Mountain)...

Sir, Is this a continuation of the ‘blank tracer‘ discussion? If you ignite the primer - you ignite the propellent. Which according to the book will fire the weapons projectile 900-950 metres. So you can imagine what would happen to your hand and everything attached to it if this happened...

Canada buys South African RG-12s for the G8 meeting 22 April 2002 by Leon Engelbrecht, Defence Systems Daily‘s Southern Africa correspondent Canada‘s Calgary Police Force has become the latest user of Vickers OMC of South Africa‘s redoubtable RG12 armoured personnel carrier (APC). The two...

Ladies and Gentlemen, The M203 has been in service since 1969 (it‘s trials version used in SVN was the XM203) manufactured by some 12 different companies throughout the world. If you want to use in it the indirect role, you use it in exactly the same technique as that used with the 60mm mortar...

He who uses Jungle wrote: "Why not disband the CF and hire a Private Military Company whenever we need troops" Don‘t joke about it - see http://latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2D000026555apr14 U.S. Companies Hired to Train Foreign Armies Yours, Jock in Sydney

BLANK TRACER That is beautiful, I needed a good laught on a awful day. Yours, Jock in Sydney

Ladies and Gentlemen, My youngest son sent me from the Ottawa Citizen: http://www.canada.com/ottawa/ottawacitizen/story.asp?id={AC27C0DD-C381-44E6-A41C-CD408EC732C8} ‘No need‘ to replace jets for MPs It discussing the hire of a aircraft for C$220K to fly the PM to Brisbane for the CHOGAM...