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This thread hits close to home as this has affected people close to me and  in the coming months with the return of Edmonton soldiers may affect many more..  My 2 cents worth of advice is directed at no-one in particular but I do hope anyone reading it heeds it.     Several times over the next...

Here is my rifle as used in afghanistan.  It started as a C7a2, the C8 flat top heavy barrel (FTHB) upper was issued as a seperate item in theatre. The 20'' upper then went into storage. When you are authorized to do so, care must be taken when mounting optics to a Canadian upper reciever...

That was at a FOB in Helmand province mid-april 2006, but it was also done at the platoon house in Gonbad.  In Gonbad we burned it daily so there was never a "stockpile".

I can't believe nobody recalls "Burning Poo" as a least desirable infantry task.  In  a single day in April I burned 200 litres of poo in four cut down oil drums using no less than 100 litres of diesel.  Poo must be stirred constantly or you will just burn off the diesel on top.  It also helps...

There is a really good pic in last months "Western Sentinel" of two troops in my platoon humping the 84mm and 4xhedp rounds.  We were so short manned it is a C9 gunner and the only M203 gnr left in my section after I left crewing the 84.

No problem,  you asked and I deposit my 2 cents. ;)

Be very careful with the carabiner to your rig sling.  Although it is widely accepted by the troops (cheap and easy)  I CANNOT recomend it for the following reasons. 1. You cannot swing it around behind you if you need to use your hands. ie) srapping up a detainee 2. Your weapon bangs against...

Many of us that have just returned from the latest roto had the benefit of a CofC that realy listened.  During pretraining straight from the CO and RSM we were given permission to try any gear combo, sight combo whatever to see if it would work better than the issue.  The caveat was that the...

Bottom line. We can't handle an influx.  Probably wind up in holding platoons until we send all our one hook privates on leadership courses to make instant NCO's

Sorry I missed the ribbon night.  I wound up on duty.  PM me with the adress, I dropped Dennis off once but forget the adress.  Paracowboy should I bring the Arsenal of Democracy on Sat?

Infidel-6,  lets not forget the newly manufactured semi auto only (not converted)  M2 available from Marstar that isn't even restricted.  1919a4  .30cal or 7.62nato as well.

An" insurgent"  outside a building firing rockets then goes inside to have dinner with his family IS using civilians as a human shield. Voting Hezbolla  means you are Hezbolla. If a van is driving by the target building NO one is going to ask a pilot to risk his aircraft and crew to go around...

Without trying to hijack,  We shouldn't be too hard on the baby boomers.  It can't have been easy growing up in the shadow of the Greatest Generation  nor was it easy living" under the shadow of the bomb"  All through my childhood in the eighties the world seemed always just on the edge of one...

I  believe that my Grandfathers on both sides of my family would express pride and admiration for the accomplishments of my Regiment in Afghanistan.  I can almost picture them in the legion branches they belonged to, speaking in the ever modest manner of that generation.  Understating their own...

I agree I-6.  Probably a good thing we arent in Law enforcement.  Anyway, Zipperhead_cop is much more articulate than you and I even though I sense he may feel as we do.

Pbi,  I was a young rflmn in B coy 5pl under Maj Dave Hirter 95-96.  I took the early posting to Edmonton in 97 to go to Bosnia with the LDSH BG.  Calgary in those days was the twighlight of the golden age IMHO sir.

When my girlfriend gets me the contact info to get Anne's papers I will let you both know. Cheers.

I think the candid, unwashed nature of this is the way the info needs to be disseminated.  Wait til SBD and I get up the nerve to "OPEN UP".

George, If you havent already, I think you would enjoy reading her thesis.  She spent a year with us in Calgary in B coy in "95".  I ran into her a couple years later at Uof C when she was one of my Girlfriends Profs.  Just about 10 years after her initial research I ran into her yet again in...

Just my 2 cents.  I am almost always of the same mind as GO!!.  Here it comes.  Through 13yrs in the Infantry with a break in the middle as a crewman  I have NEVER had legacy or TCCC radios perform anywhere near the ranges quoted in  the manuals  NEVER.  15-20 km for a 522 in a LAV, amped or...