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  1. 54/102 CEF

    105mm GUN CAPTURED AT VIMY - PICS / STORY / VIDEO --- You can help!

    A project we have on the go. http://www.cobwfa.ca/VIMY%20GUN.html Enjoy!
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    A Good Simple "Mission Analysis" Template

    Staff College links to MSN Verbs http://lfdts.army.mil.ca/soh/Main_e.htm Look under "planning" or here http://lfdts.army.mil.ca/soh/SOH_Content/VerbsMainPage.htm Lots of stuff for the keen
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    A Good Simple "Mission Analysis" Template

    US MSN Verbs = pretty close to Canadian http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/policy/army/fm/3-90/appb.htm Will assist you to see what the "effect" does More here http://www.thelightningpress.com/smartbooks/operations/adobe/AODS4-2%20Movement%20&%20Maneuver%20sample.pdf See p 10 of 22
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    A Good Simple "Mission Analysis" Template

    Ref for you - quick and dirty - see page 18 http://www.thelightningpress.com/smartbooks/smallunittactics/adobe/SUTS-1.pdf The Words are universal - the headings come from US pams (in the refs) - many of these US pams can be found on line Hope this assists - our freedom depends on the SMART...
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    CAEN FRANCE 1944 - the ground today

    Thanks for the tip !
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    CAEN FRANCE 1944 - the ground today

    Hi I'm searching for a trip package of key sites with grid refs - any Canadian unit will do. Anyone have trip packages? We may get a trip in the future and am just trying to pull together points on thegraound with accurate maps and GPS. Sort of like a self guided tour. Any help appreciated...
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    Iraq Surge

    Great Video on the Iraq Surge http://www.understandingthesurge.org Click Screening Room They play a scenario like this at Army Ops Course set in Vukovar Croatia - a defeated Army gets chased out and the opening stages of cleaning up after ethnic cleansing has taken place - but they nickle...
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    ROYAL MONTREAL REGIMENT BALL HOCKEY - VOTE NOW FOR THE OLYMPICS!

    Hockey - especially Street HOckey or Ball Hockey really got a boost when Gen Rick Hillier brought the Stanley Cup to Afghanistan Well - the beat goes on in Montreal Have a read of 1 game where RMR goes down in a hard fought game with 712 Comm Sqn The story oozes miitary team spirit. If you...
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    48th Highlanders Website - The Real One

    Can anyone point me to the 48th Highlanders website? I tried http://www.48highlanders.com/ but it leads to a broken DND link What I am searching for is online links to their service as 15th Bn CEF in WW1 for relatives of some of their WW1 soldiers. Thanks in advance!  ;)
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    Big balloon over north Edmonton carries army camera

    Its very intersting - somewhere out there is a pic of Gen Leslie`s grandfather Gen AGL McNaughton in an Arty spotting Balloon on the Western Front in WW1 in GOOGLE BOOKS type this in ------ > mcnaughton balloon Then go to page 104 Innovation is the name of the game - incremental advantage
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    Military robot 'hops' over walls - BBC News

    And a robo snake for all the snake eaters out there! :) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8102972.stm
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    Colonel Commandant, Colonel Roger K. St. John, OMM, CD 1944-2009

    He was a great, great guy.
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    SAS Hero loses son in Afghanistan

    A sad day for this family - John McAleese was one of the first SAS men into the Iranian Embassy http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1209466/Tears-SAS-embassy-siege-hero-repatriated-son-died-trying-save-mate-Taliban-blast.html
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    Dieppe, 67 years later

    Well done on putting the links up :) I went there to the centre beach for a few hours in 2003. You could spend 5 days there - study the battle field - study the rise and fall of the tide - study the Giant Doberman at the City Meat Markets watching Mme pour our beer.... 
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    Soldiers a bargain in 1950

    Peter Worthington's work is great. It could be greater if he would link the policy dating from at least 1945 of deploying a small force and asking it to do big things and what this has achieved. HIs service in the Korea era did big things but the mind of his reader has been  refocussed over...
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    The 'Hollow Army' and the .COM dilemma [a split & merged thread]

    My view - which is worth its usual 2 cents - caveat : This really isn't about good or bad decisions by DND - its about the government strangling the resource inflow to support the demand at the far end. I am guessing that Gen Hillier assumed he'd get more personnel which would put legs on the...
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    The Arctic Military Base Thread [merged]

    Ever wonder what's up there? Lots apparently Here's a link to the Proteus Website at the US Army War College http://www.carlisle.army.mil/proteus/wfs-forecasts.cfm Note item 9 (this is from an external source) Now see this...
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    Field Marshall Eric Von Manstein

    Read "Lost Victories" by Feldmarschall Eric von Manstein. If you read nothing else he comes across as a German Eisenhower, firm but fair. Then "Manstein: A Portrait" by Marcel Stein - in this book we see him as a German Eisenhower until they implement the Commisar Order. The Commissar Order...
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    Utility of AOC

    Can anyone at AOC Central post the requirement for Day 1 of Tutorial III - the part time P PRES Staff seem to be offline - on leave - or likely setting traps for us on 11 July Maybe send it out via the Course Coord lady via her email list she just sent for the personal history form.
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    Attention Montreal readers - General Arthur Currie's grave site - Urgent!

    Well done on the pictures! When I was there in 2006 the staff at the Cemetery said you'd be amazed at the number of visitors coming through to see Currie's grave.
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