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I think if your sneaking and peeking at soldiers, you might want to have  a weapon you can fight them with, cause they'll be pissed off if they catch you at it. Didn't mean to start an argument there, although a thread on the role of the Rangers would be an interesting read. I'll do a search and...

Actually, that was bang on.

For years they've wanted to have the same credibility as mainstream sports, like boxing and figure skating. Now they have it.

Reminds me of the Cornwallis cripplers, CF provides and the only people who actually ran in them didn't have a choice. Maybe they could purchase for themselves and be reimbursed. I understand in WWII officers could carry any handgun they could get approved by the CO if they bought it...

Seen. I forgot O negative is the "universal donor". So if a medic deploys with whole blood it's O-? The way I think, I wouldn't take anything else, as a failsafe, that way if I fuck up I can't possibly give the wrong blood and cause the bad reaction. (I expect to fuck up, that way I can't...

Yeah the fumes from those markers are some harsh eh? You might want to open a window.

They do seem excited about the fibreglass don't they. Even the academics are vulnerable to shiny kit syndrome eh? Funny you should mention bears, because that's what my rifle will be for, but I want to make a lot of holes in paper before I go out so cost is more important than any small...

Exactly. Is blood typing easy like a pregnancy test? Just dip and by the time you got the needle in you got an answer? If my missuss was here I could tell you right away. I bet blood typing testers are issued with the bag of whole blood.

That's the point. It makes no difference to anyone's life, and saves exactly 0 (zero) time. The people telling you to write your blood type on your kit made that decision in error and as high as they may be, they are not qualified to make it. They just don't know anything about transfusions...

Reminds me of a Wizard of Id cartoon from years ago. The guy with the spear brings a kid before the king and says: "He wants to join the army." King says: "How old are you?" Kid says: "14." King says: "Come back when you're older." Kid says: "But by then I'll know better." Cadets...

Are there any Rangers, or weapons techs who support them on the forum? (Or decision-makers who procure for them, I guess) This page http://www.sfu.ca/casr/mp-enfield.htm became a lot more interesting to me when my dad gave me his old enfield. I wonder what the experts think of reconditioning...

My belief is that the recruiting bumf calls for Computer Science, Physics, and etc, not because you need it for the job, but because people who are interested in that sort of thing are more likely to maintain an interest in the Signals world. My experience was in the Comm Reserve, but I...

I keep seeing people with their blood type on their kit, and even tattooed on their skin. But my wife (MCpl Medic back in the 90's) told me that anybody who has whole blood to put in you, BMS or whatever will, without exception, blood type you before they transfuse. Anybody who does not have the...

Says neighbor Alan Troidle, in the Calgary Sun, after a woman was stabbed to death in one of an apparently random series of knife attacks last night. About ten blocks from where my kids were sleeping too. Nothing focuses the mind like random knife attacks. My question is why can't the good...

Sounds right. I got a buddy on the Delta BC police says its not the tiny jurisdictions, it's the lack of teamwork between the forces. I've seen his idealism sort of crushed over the years under an accumulation of crap like that.

Similar to "Purple Trades" and "Hard Sea Trades", we may soon have "Stinky Trades". Is your job one? "With respect to odour control, the CF has recognized a potential need to incorporate this for some trades," Sabrina St-Cyr -a spokeswoman for the Canadian Defence Department. You'll know when...

Sorry for the digression, but is it racism if you still call it the paddywagon?

'nuff sed. I'm in.

An Ode to Powerpoint: While you were making your [PowerPoint] slides, we would be killing you. -Russian officer commenting to a US officer on who would have won if we had ever actually fought WWIII in Western Europe. stole this from longorshortcapital.com

Most of my vitriol was actually directed at your fellow traveller. If some of it splashed on you, sorry bout that. No one is forced to sell their products to Walmart. Similarly, my farm went belly up because it wasn't run efficiently enough, not because the price of wheat was too low. The...