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I recommend going bare-chested, wearing a kilt, the shrunken heads of the punks who made fun of you on the bus the other day tied around your neck on a hemp cord, a claymore strapped to your back and a kukhri in your belt, and at least half of your face daubed with blue woad war paint. This...

Some people are always quick to drag out the "separation of church and state" idea, but very few of them know what it originally meant and what it was intended to do. The term originated in the United States. As they were building the institutions of government, certain people began pushing for...

I thought we were sending a Bde HQ. Enlighten me if I'm confused....

Given the state of English instruction at most universities, I highly doubt that 99% of the students we're complaining about could articulate their point of view half as well as George just did. (Never mind.... half of the aforementioned 99% don't even know why they believe what they do, and so...

Here's more: Canadian soldiers slightly wounded in Kabul blast CTV.ca News Staff Two Canadian soldiers were slightly wounded in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul. The soldiers were part of an armoured reconnaissance squadron, patrolling the city before this Sunday's...

You won't see a twin 35 - those have been withdrawn from service.

There's a saying often encountered in training: don't be sorry, just don't let it happen again... You're showing some improvement already - good on you for making the effort. Just another note - there's a spell checker option at the bottom of the post field. It'll catch a lot of gross errors...

Dylan, You've made four posts so far on the forum. I've looked at them all and have yet to find a punctuation mark or a capitalization. You wrote nine spliced sentences and no periods. Please, for the sake of the rest of the members around here, stop "dumbing down" the forum with your...

Well, they'll be more deployable in-theatre, but I'm hesitant to describe such a brigade as being "more deployable." If these brigades have to deploy to Mexico or Canada, yes, but anywhere else? A "light brigade" with 584 trucks is not really air-deployable - even the Americans would have to...

Have a read of Sharon's biography sometime. He's a warrior through and through, having fought in every single one of Israel's wars. The man has been there, has seen the cost of war firsthand. First and foremost, he is a patriot. So I'm not sure it would be proper to call him a "man of peace."...

Island Rhyno, buddy, you're behind the times... Technology has moved on! The old "tin foil hat" simply doesn't offer the best protection anymore. Now THIS - it's state of the art: http://www.stopabductions.com/ Velostat anti-static sheeting - the wave of the future! Incidentally, only TWO...

Inexperienced though the pilot certainly was, I don't think it sets a good example for the colonel in question to speculate about the cause of the crash before it's known. When undergoing media relations training, I remember being strongly cautioned not to talk about things outside of your...

Not just that... Heywood, could you explain this on your profile: "ex3PPCLI (Penal Coy)" ? Somehow I think that if you really are in your thirties and your name was that unusual, you could have gone down to a government office and had it changed. You're (allegedly) an adult, right? If you...

Call me suspicious, but I smell something....

One minute late sounds trivial when it's a physical. You want to be a pilot, you said. Well, that's a MILITARY pilot. This isn't Air Canada, where if you're late, well, the passengers know that's part of the business. In our business, lateness can have deadly consequences. You may someday be...

Certainly, people should be reminded that there is a spell checker, and that it's great for catching typos and other gross errors... I like Gunner98's Option 3. Number one might just make more work for the mods, and encourage more of the same ("Hey, look at what I did !!!"). Option 2 would...

By all means, take civvies - you'll need them for weekends. You'll have room for the laptop and anything up to a couple duffel bags' worth of civvie kit - I just meant to dissuade people from thinking they could bring all their worldly possessions with them (no dogs allowed...) If you have a...

They're not bad - queen-sized beds, personal jacuzzis, and 27" flatscreen TVs (cable, no satellite  :threat:), and they do your laundry for you!  ;D Seriously, though, it depends on which school and course you'll go on. If you're going to CAP, you'll be four to a room and you won't have a lot...

Just noticed that Spain's holding a moment of silence in "solidarity with Britain"... I can't help thinking that it's a rather empty and worthless gesture... Spain had its chance to show "solidarity" with Britain and its other allies by not picking up its ball and going home from Iraq after the...

Thanks, that was exactly what I was looking for - makes things a lot clearer....  ;D