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Use and abuse it as you would like.  As long as you hoist a drink in the honour of the boys and girls putting their butts on the line this Christmas, its all yours.

I'm sorry if I implied that one deer was enough to feed the family, but we hunted as a family.  When you have a couple of deer and an elk or moose, you have to pack pretty inventively in the deep freeze for the first few months.  We never really counted the birds; pheasant and grouse were sort...

I have to post the link here, I was reading about the Taliban types the RCR's are closing the sack on while I listened to my daughters sing Christmas Carols.  The resulting corruption of Santa Clause is Coming to Town goes out the RCR's and attatchments who are getting it done in the sandbox...

I'm a heathen by religion, and my hunting traditions were passed on by my father and grandfather pretty much intact from the pre-Christian northern European roots.  I was blooded on my first kill, which was considered one of the important steps towards manhood.  I was trained never to take a...

The RCR’s Are Coming to Town You’d better watch out You might as well cry Better not snipe I'm telling you why The RCR’s are coming to town They're making a list And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who's naughty and nice The RCR’s are coming to town They see where you've been creeping...

UNOF: Underarmed Narcs Obviously Foreign (UN Observer Force) UNPF:  Underarmed, Neglected, Probably F#cked (UN Protective Force) and for service in francophone areas of the third world, the traditional ONU:  Orginization Nearly Useless (the French acronym for UN, just as useless in any...

My only quibble with this article is it causes a phrase from a news report out of Afghanistan yesterday to echo in my head "....after a half hour barage from Canadian tanks....."  Big gun on a small hull leaves you with what in the carousel?  As a cheap direct fire round, the tank brings...

In the rebuilding operations in Afghanistan we are in the "building the tools to make the tools stage".  We cannot simply hand over control to the civilian infrastructure, and plug in our add on contributions, as there really isn't an infrastructure there, and hasn't been in living memory.  We...

Ah, French armour, the way that German armour amassed its reputation for deadliness.  The French excel at selling weapons, and have always commanded a fair share of the African market, and thus designed for low intensity conflict with low expectation of facing modern anti-armour weapons.  The...

When the Taliban uses their experience in IED, and the old stockpiles of anti-armour left from hunting Russian armour, they are going to take a crack at the Leo.  Most of the armour they killed during the occupation was light armour (BMP, BDRM, etc), and the Soviet main battle tanks they killed...

    The Taliban is "in" with the drug lords, but who cares?  We are out to destroy the Taliban and the drug lords, by cutting these disease bearing parasites off from the body of the Afghan people, so our efforts would necessarily have to remove both, or have the effect of choosing parasites...

As far as the caveats keeping untrained and underequiped forces out of the fighting in Afghanistan, the last time I served along side the Bundeswher I found German land forces to be both well trained and equipped, and both times I served with French forces, I found their troops to be similarly...

Aye, the words are strong and bitter.  Like many of the cold warriors here, I spent most of my time training to die in the fields of Germany to buy time for North American and British forces to halt and drive back the forces the Soviets were driving through Germany to conquer Western Europe. ...

North America, Tommy & Orange; NATO the alliance of two world powers, and two small armies who haven't forgotten allies are required to do more than just talk.  Canada, the US, UK, and Netherlands are the only nations that are allowing their troops to fight.  Had Brezhnev or Andropov had a clue...

    It seems that better minds than mine have both been thinking along the lines I suggested, but reading more deeply on the subject as well.  Thanks again a_majoor for finding what I was stumbling towards.  One point to consider though, SA is important, but how many of our Afghanistan...

The FISH video brings back an earlier use of the bayonet, for convincing someone that they want to get the f%#k out of your way, and for giving them an encouragement somewhere between shouting and shooting in its firmness.  Do you want to be killing everyone you see?  Maybe, maybe not.  Do you...

I knew I was going to mislead people with the S tank comparison, mea culpa.  I don't advocate removing the turret, but removing the people from the turret.  The turret would consist simply of the main gun/coax/targeting sensors with the gunner remaining in the hull.  The turret would be much...

I favour losing the conventional turret for a design similar to the Swedish S tank, only with a free moving (not hull integral) gun system.  The gunner's station is inside the hull, freeing up the mass of armour from the turret volume that will no longer be required, and dropping the profile of...

What are the price comparisons between the new armoured car designs with their inadequate armour, non-tank destroying gun and lamentable ammunition capacity and the price of the newly available surplus Leopard II A5 that are being shopped around Europe?  I know Canada likes to bring a jacknife...

Hail the Einherjar (Valliant Dead) Who answered the call to arms, but cannot answer now, Who never broke the faith, with those they left behind . Raise a voice to praise them who matchless would not yield Raise a glass to toast them who died upon the field . Raise your children for them speak...