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Sounds like a quote from one of those disgrunted, pompous officers who are always out to disaffect Major Sharpe. I've had similar experiences with members of the Tor Scots. They don't have a jump company. Perhaps the extreme cases you mention are highlighted simply because they wear a maroon...

Do you mean while on public transportation? We used to do training in the Don Valley, High Park and that park across from Fort York with webbing and rifles. I always wondered what went through the minds of picnicing civillians who looked up from their ham and cheese on bagel to see a fully...

To quote a MCpl who was trying to give a lecture at the same time as a pipes and drum practice, "SHUT THE F* UP!"   ;) :D More seriously, I believe the removal of the Jump company from the QOR would be tantamount to castration. It's ingrained into the culture of the regiment and a source of...

I never had any problems during the late 80s in Toronto. Taking the bus, the subway, walking down Queen St. I never got harrassed. In fact all I can recall were the geniune cheers of encouragement from the homeless on Jarvis and Queen we would get when doing PT. Nowadays they have a monster...

I think I have the perfect solution: The Conservatives run Don Cherry then make him their political hitman. Since there is no hockey (and no Ron MacLean) I'm betting you there is a lot of pent up ranting ready to blow. Cherry would be the perfect counterpunch. Parish says something, Cherry is...

Yeah, and I'll say this for the second time... In most cases you have sixteen, seventeen and eighteen year olds leaving from home for an extended period of time for the first time in their lives. They get jacked up by instructors for having lint on their beret, marching out of step, worse: not...

Some recruits could conceivably watch an instructor pull a pistol and shoot another recruit for being out of step and wouldn't have the sense to know it was murder. I've seen the blind hero worship and it's impossible to talk sense into these people. What's worse is some of them go on to become...

I think the idea here is that the officers and instructors are the people recruits look to to give sound, professional advice during serious training. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have much respect for that instructor if I was the one spewing milk in the gas hut and then getting kicked...

Hmm... I wonder if this is true. My Optometrist (I'm looking for a new one) also sells glasses, frames and contacts including the associated annual checkup plans that go along with them. Though he has told me after questioning that I am a candidate for surgery, he still has reservations about...

Upon reflection, I would agree. Perhaps I meant defensive goal; protecting territory using offensive tactics. Makes sense.  :)

The system of Devsirme would likely suggest that link be nullified. These youth were taken at a very young age and had all ties to their origins severerd. They became the "property" of the sultan and converted to Islam. However, the Ottoman Empire consisted of a multitude of ethnicities.

It would be true then to say that such a force would be required to fight in terrain that is most advantageous to that style of warfare, ie. urban, mountainous, etc. To fight a cohesive, modern, western division, for example, elsewhere would not be to the advantage of groups of smaller...

Ok, which is precisely why I "bleeped" out any such references. I offer a public apology to this forum. As I said in my post, I could not recall the lyrics and as further explanation, I also did not recall the drastic nature of the song, which Bossi clearly pointed out. This song was sung to...

This game is gonna be the Call of Duty killer. Check out the E3 Demo. http://www.brothersinarmsgame.com/teaser/index.php

The grenade must travel 14-28 metres before it arms according to the US Marine Corps.

What's your address?  ;)

Not sure if it qualifies as a marching song but maybe one of you Highlanders might know a little Scottish ditty I have in mind. It was sung to us during PT by a Mcpl from the 48th. The first line goes: "Oh down in [bleep] Country were the red river flows..." The [bleep] relates to female...

Geez, and my GF complains about being stressed.  :D

And here's another one. Really, this is getting out of hand. Call me a racist, because that is invariably what will happen in a conversation like this, but I am finding little sympathy for the muslim community when its leaders continue to blurt out anti-semitic garbage and then suffer absolutely...

Found this link: http://peosoldier.army.mil/images/PEOSoldier2004booklet.pdf Includes weapons projects; though I've heard something to the effect that the US has scraped the XM8 project because they don't want core weapons manufacture to be in foreign hands which can put a stop to production...