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The Long March Home Innocence lost in the blink of an eye, dreams died with friends in the fire. Escape alone from the wreckage of his shattered tank, alone save the screams of the lost. In the flames burned the boy who dreamed of his home, in the flames forged the soul of the man. A new tank...

    I'm speaking now to those like myself who have served their time and mustered out.  It is vitally important that we take the time out to attend the Remembrance, and make this a part of our family life, that our children can be educated as to the importance not only of the sacrifices made by...

I encountered many hostile responses when in uniform in Quebec, and a great many positive responses from the young ladies, so I call it a net win ;D.  I also recall my line course, where the lingua franca in my room was French because there was one lone BC sig (me), two Quebecois, and an Ottawa...

Why is it that the Canadian public and Canadian media are under the illusion that polling companies are without bias?  Neither polling companies, nor advertising companies are independent neutral parties, but mercenaries hired by parties with vested interests for specific purposes.  Some polls...

It is our job as citizens to hold the media to task about its reporting, and to ask the questions that it has chosen to overlook.  Many times I have read the slanted editorial pieces in our own Vancouver Sun and Province, and replied with letters to the editor.  Several times these letters have...

"ding dong the wicked witch is dead"  sung by a conga-line of black hats along the yellow brick road.... Good riddance to the Cougar MkII (really, its just like a tank, without armour, tracks, or stopping power...)

They have struck at us at every opportunity, and will continue to do so as long as we permit religions other than their own form of radical Islam.  For the threat of violence to have any affect on our actions, there must be the perception that if we yield, we will be spared the violence, and if...

Does anyone else but me find it strange that everyone in the west is pointing to our troops and calling us invaders, but no one is pointing at the Pakistanis and Uzbek's, the Arabs and Chechen's, and the dimwits from our own shores who have signed up to carry the spear against us in...

Not even the NRA is going to argue that half a dozen men with assault rifles, a light machine gun, and a pair of RPG are just peacefully out walking their goat.  We do not engage civilians going about their daily business, but only those of manifestly hostile intent, who we do not give an even...

Mr Dosanj does not simply change his party to get a new paycheck, his integrity is so much for sale that he has forgotten even his own personal history.  For those of you blessed enough to have escaped BC politics in the last decades, Mr Dosanj was once our AG, for the NDP Provincial...

From a purely military standpoint our presence in Afghanistan is a necessity, not a luxury.  Given sanctuary and support, phase one guerrilla operations can be carried on forever.  Pakistan may have been the source of the Taliban, but it has never had control there.  Only in Afghanistan was the...

Okay, while I have some problems with Gen Dallaire's positions on Darfur, I have tried not to question his professionalism until now.  I held the high and mighty rank of coporal (that's sarcasm folks), and learned a bit about our deployable troop levels.  Now Senator Dallaire received a far more...

Is anyone else getting tired of hearing our enlightened press come back from Afghanistan and say, "but if we just lined our troops up around one village, and make it all pretty and perfect, all of Afghanistan would change"?  If we fail to root out the Taliban, then that perfect little Canadian...

I love seeing the left use its statistics.  I especially love how they make their comparisons.  Do they compare casualties per combat arms personnel in operation, or total number of soldiers?  We do not deploy all echelons, we rely on our allies to fulfil many of the support operations, and our...

[list]   OK, so sending troops when the UN asks is bad.....somehow doesn't fit with the "Canadian Soldiers should be Peacekeepers" mantra they like to chant.  Sending RCMP to teach the Haitian police to actually enforce the law and investigate crimes rather than acting as a political goon...

Below is my reply from Sue Creba of the riding association that drafted the offensive proposal. All I can say is a shovelful of this is good for the garden....... "You should know that our riding association has formally requested that the pre-amble from the motion on Afghanistan submitted to...

My response to both the riding association and Jack Layton: Sir,     I had the honour of serving this country in uniform for many years.  In that time I had to listen to the NDP preach endlessly about their conception of universal human rights.  While I have found many of the stances worthy, I...

Pay attention to your body.  Whatever your morality may say, under intense physical stress your demands will be higher, and your bodies ability to synthesize will be more limited, so specialized diets that have worked for you in the past may land you in MIR our out on your butt.  I've been an...

    Hey, I never said Rapops didn't have some sweet gigs.  I spent a couple of months running in the field with two absolute babes as my detachment doing sigs for the PPCLI.  The constant moves were a pain in the rectum, but the work was sweet and the company was fine :o.  I also spent several...

Both sides of my family have soldiered for the Empire in Afghanistan before, so the price of peace in Afghanistan is not a surprise to this Canadian.  The problem with comparing the British Imperial and Soviet experience in Afghanistan with our own is that both empires sought to impose foreign...