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My three daughters (9, 7, and 4) in their pink camouflage just took out four boys in green camouflage (having been told that pink and green camouflage cannot serve together).  It turns out that leapfrogging advances with suppressive fire,  L shaped ambushes, proper spacing with assigned arcs of...

When getting my 404's on the Iltis, when I looked puzzled at the large complex green control for the lights the Mcpl instructor informed me: "With this control you must turn the lights on in daylight, because the army is concerned about your safety, and with this control you can turn the lights...

    The pagan ethics of the Roman republic made for excellent soldiers.  The ambition, discipline, drive and courage of the Republican soldier made Rome the master of her world, but hard to control.  Christianity and the demilitarizing of the Roman citizens made for a peaceful Roman Empire that...

    Well said.  Some of what we must do and see is terrible, but necessary; that is a burden we all bear.  To allow what is terrible, and unnecessary leaves us a burden that may be too much to bear.

Business models are like any other models, good and useful tools where the assumptions are shared between model and application, and a good way to screw up by the numbers where they are not.  Logistics is a case in point where business practices can be studied to improve the effectiveness of our...

Heathens is typically used to refer to the Asatru, or Norse Pagans (like the Vikings), but encompasses all of the ancestral religions of Northern Europe from the Angles and Saxons of England, to the Russ that gave Russia its name (and blonds for that matter).  Many followers of the Gaelic...

The Heathen Freehold Society of BC is seeking nominees for the Tyrbold award, which is given to a heathen that has distinguished themselves for courage as demonstrated by service in an active theater in the service of their nation.  I know that it was not a subject generally discussed when I...

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and conscription gives you lots of those.  Esprit de corps is impossible if you have a group where the majority attitude is that of a prison chain gang.  Our armed forces needs warriors, skilled technicians, motivated, self directing overachievers...

Our troops are doing it right already.  We are fighting in Afghanistan, and for Afghanistan.  That means that we are trying to help the Afghan people adjust to the rule of law.  We will hand our prisoners over to Afghan authorities for trial and punishment under Afghan law for crimes committed...

The Taliban are trying to talk Canadian troops out, because attempts at ambush and assault have got their @$$ handed to them.  As far as terrorist attacks in Canada, if/when those occur it will be because they had supporters here who struck at targets of opportunity within reach, not because...

ROTFLMAO: "Are they being sold a benevolent Captain Canada only to find that they are being shot at and shooting people? Is our military for humanitarian assistance and peacekeeping or is it an adjunct force to the [U.S.] 82nd Airborne?" he asks. "       The C6 is not a tool to spread love and...

I don't see why job protection for active service for reserve personnel shouldn't be mandated by federal law.  We protect jobs for maternity leave as a duty to the state, we protect jobs for jury duty, a task that can easily exceed time lost for a tour, as a duty to the state.  We even mandate...

    My daughters love the stuff.  In pink and green; shirts, pants, skirts, skorts etc.  I think it is a sign of the respect that the military once again possesses that imitation of uniform is again cool.  For centuries, both mens formal wear, and the rakish styles of the dandy were based on...

Why is it that everybody who opposes us being in Afghanistan, a place where our own national security and treaty obligations sent us, wants us in Sudan, where we have neither?  We have supplied materiel and funds for the African Union troops, and if they request technical assistance, I'm sure we...

There is a very real problem in our media.  In reporting on science and the military (examples chosen because my own knowledge is sufficient to judge), the reporters often haven't got a clue what they are looking at, what the are talking about, or even what they are being told.  These same...

I'm a Sig, and we get stuck with everybody.  From ships, to airbases, firebases, or humping through the sticks with the PPCLI.  This gives us a unique perspective on the whole unified force fiasco.  It also gives us a good view of what works, and should work better.     What impressed me the...

I was in back in the 90's when our UN deployments had eaten so much of our operating budget that units were forced to cut training to support the troops overseas.  The good Senator wants a return to those bad old days?  Our training is what keeps us alive.  Skimp on training, just to afford...

    Some of the brethren may be wandering a bit off-topic, but the point is valid.  What the CBC wants to pass off as an attack is the sort of thing the rest of us had a chance to get used to.  You hit the ground if its close, but if nothing else follows, you get up, continue bitching about the...

I have always been wary of the MMEV designs proposed loadout.  I would rather see the AD and AT platforms kept separate.  Using Starstreak for AD (with 25mm sidecar) on a LAV chassis for AD and upgrading our LAVTUA to Spike or some similar NLOS missile will give us two workable systems with...

The starstreak looks like a nice missile system.  Not a tank killer, but that's not the role of the MMEV, but the TUA.  A good air defence weapon with the ability to destroy IFV or infantry positions from a long range.  I hope they can get a proximity fuse for the submunitions in the near...