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What a heartbreak for the Norwegians but also what a tribute to their organization to be able to find the crash site so quickly. We are not the only country with mountainess terrain which is difficult to overfly and search. I wonder if this has any lessons for Canadian SAR? When you look at...

Of course the actual question is will it pass fast by the police speed checks? Will they be so surprised to see a moving shubbery they won't check the speed?

You might try reading Fix Bayonets!: A Royal Welch Fusilier at War, 1796-1815 It covers a bit more than just the war of 1812 in telling the story Of General Pearson. It touches on the Peninsular campaign. The general rose from the rank of Major to becpning the Brigade commander because he was...

Soldiering On, for me equates to, Life is hard, then you die, get over it

I have a really hard time keeping my supper down when I see nonsense like this. First let me say I am politically left of center but I also know that I have been debated to a tie by some right of center individuals. But these are exceptional people who have been able to produce verifiable facts...

RIP Tpr Ekins, You performed an awesome feat of gunnery that day. slotted in as a gunner in a new tank crew, in your first engagement you killed at extreme range three tigers. You certainly performed magnificantly. Whether you got Witman or Maj Rad's squadron of the Sherbrooke Fusilier...

Makes you wonder why the messes don't have Games Nights using these games or similiar to at least get SOPs driven into Junior officers and NCMs

Very useful tools both. However I do think The Game of War, would be useful in teaching Young officers map appreciations, orders planning, keeping up unit war diaries.

This is an interesting question. I can speak to it from the viewpoint of the old Militia before things switched to the PRes setup. I was a member of  an Armoured Regiment, we actually had a troop of four Sherman Tanks and a training area to exercise them in. I became an officer as a...

Actually it looks like a good training aid, It would be interesting to design a modern equivalent, replacing the cavalry with armour etc. Could be very useful in teaching combined arms training for the PRes.

FYI, when reading the actual article, it states the auction was in Nov. 2010. Its also interesting how many people you need to play the game, 2 officers to command the two sides and officers to command the major sub units, three umpires and an officer to record the moves. It is much more of a...

But I enjoy his posts. They are well written and articulate. I do not always agree with him but, sometimes, he causes me to stop, think, examine my own premises and examine my own beliefs. That is something we all need to do periodically

Well training in the yard is a good start but the driver still needs to handle his machine in traffic. Driving in a pickup truck will not help the driver learn what it's like to drive on the sidewalks. And driving with the blade down is something that should only be done once in training...

Interesting video. You're right Dec 21, 2011 no snow to be seen, and not just one public service union employee but two of them working as a team on both sides of the street but is it really wasted money, or is someone grabbing an oportunity for a little OJT by taking the snow plow into the area...

I think there is one factor that seems to be overlooked. That is the change in the composition of the Canadian Forces. Korea was the last swansong of the Militia. After Korea the Regulars were given priority over the Militia, the theory was in case of hostilities with the Soviets and the...

Yup things like this have happened in many wars but that doesn't make them right. I remember back in the days of the Vietnam war, the wiping out of Muy Lai at the orders of William Calley, he said it was to reduce casualities among his troops. As a YO, that seemed like a reasonable idea...

That makes more sense. I had not considered they might be cadets.

Just based on theuniforms, the OD combats, the blue Air Force flight suit, the other light uniform, almost TW and the Staff Sargeant rank

I'm a little suspicious because of the military Quotes seeming to be Islamist inspired i.e. long live jihadists and long live the Palestinists, and quotes appearing without quote numbers. Have we been hacked or is it just my paranoia?

Whether the submarines have never fired a torpedo in anger, they did provide submarines to train against the ASW  forces and don't think that wasn't a valuable contribution in WWII and during the Cold War. Our ASW forces may have been world class, but they wouldn't have been without submarines...