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But always about 10 kg too heavy no matter what weight.

1. Reinforced rubber liners for valise and ruck. Green outside and black inside. Super tear resistant and virtually water proof. (I tipped a canoe in rapids, my ruck went into water for 200-300m and kit inside ruck stayed bone dry) 2. polypro long johns (lightweight or medium)

Why don‘t the countries who have a primary interest in local stability start cleaning their own neighbourhood? The Govt‘s of Dominican Rep, Jamaica and other Caribbean countries should be the first ones to step up to the plate. With a much deeper insight with regards to local customs...

How could anyone realistically claim refugee status in Canada from the USA? What grounds could he claim S_Baker? This guy sounds like a non-hacker(except for being a jumper) to me and conveniently claims CO. Canada has let slackers like this in before and it wasn‘t right back then either. We‘ll...

Sorry Spr Earl, I gotta call corn on that last post. The worst offenders for high sticking, Brashear, Orszagh don‘t wear visors. Neither do McSorley, Tkachcuk Hossa to name a few more. High sticking happened long before visors and maybe even helmets. Sure it‘s worse now. But that is because...

By the way I thought the Conan skit was good for what it was worth. It‘s just some folks can laugh wholeheartedly at others but not themsleves. I won‘t laugh when he targets white Canadian/Irish/Cree 35 yr old fathers with 15 yrs in uniform who own chocolate labs. Even though the Irish love to...

It‘s so full of loopholes it‘s makes swiss cheese look solid. Heaven forbid we upset someone trying to illegally sneak into Canada to enjoy our cradle to grave social support system. The special interests people would be out of a job. Refugee status is an idea from a bygone era where refugees...

That‘s right. Not one of these clowns entered through Canada. They didn‘t learn to fly in Saskatoon. They didn‘t take off from Hamilton in jumbo jets. There is only one border that you can cross into Canada, that‘s right the 49th parallel. Unless they came over the North Pole or paddled over...

This is why Jnr leaders need to watch their soldier‘s weapon procedures. It‘s lazyness and bad habits. What happens in training with blank pyro can happen in real time with live ammo. I normally expect this from CSS trades as the amount of weapon handling time is minimal compared to 031 and...

It‘s been my experience (limited though it is) that most things not Euro are looked down upon by them. With several centuries head start on us North American colonials they may feel culturally superior perhaps. I‘ll admit that there is very little comparision to many of their cities...

In other words, not much has changed since ‘90. Most barracks (4 to a room style) have the stall shower with curtain. the condo style share 1 or 2 per level in a single room.The gyms are the open style. On ex if you are lucky to get the MLBU it‘s open style. Overseas there are stalls, if an...

If he (S_Baker) is going to post something in Canadiana he‘d better do some research. A professional soldier or not. How hard is it to look up Google or Yahoo or MSN? By the way I e-mailed CBC and told them that after 25 years of being a CBC television and CBC1 radio listener I will cease doing...

Has anyone ever trained on the ROE mission in the SAT? I‘ve only used in for PWT‘s and defensive scenarios. Part of this SAT was portrayed on Truth Duty Valour during the Naval boarding party episode. Shoot/don‘t shoot could be played out here.

Gambler, I should not argue against your opinion but it implies that soldiers can be automatons, parade square drill aside. I think you are doing this guy a disservice by implying that anyone (psychopaths not included) can kill anyone dispassionately no matter what training they have received...

I think we may be getting wrapped around the axle over terminology. "Trained Killer" is being a bit simplistic for identifying soldiers. There is a big difference in what a soldier is and what someone who takes life is. Soldiers abide by a whole code of conduct and ethics. It is a lifestyle, a...

This isn‘t the first time this has happened. Bases have been used in the past to house homeless and even refugees. Kosovar refugees were housed in a few bases just a few years ago. St-Jean was used during the Ice Storm as well. These were probably quite different than this but it shows that...

And as for what good would it have done Bush for possibly getting shot down over North Vietnam? Well, absolutly no good as far as I can see. But that never stopped hundreds of thousands of other American boys from going over, drafted or not. These same American boys were enjoying the same great...

Absolutely fantastic. Incredibly strong message about the less popular side of any war. No war can be fought without ugly brutal things happening. Otherwise we‘d be having them every second weekend. Never long enough to miss the NHL playoffs or the Superbowl though. They‘d finish just in time...

Fill yer boots skipper!

There are definitly slackers and non-hackers (the kind of people I have the least time for) in the midst of these "homeless" people I am sure. For everytime few times we give out a helping hand to someone who deserves it there‘s probably someone screwing the system. That being said I won‘t paint...