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Vern, I wasn't implying that evil forces were at work at the Gagetown clothing depot.... his initial issue WAS, as you stated, given at CFLRS.... the size 14 boots were the biggest they had. When he got to Gagetown, he asked his instructors on his course about getting new boots and was told to...

The reason how his size 16 feet fit into the 14's was simple..... he was a new recruit in the training system and knew squat about squat. He was told those were the biggest they had and he WOULD wear them.... so... he jammed his feet in them day after day for months with his toes curled under...

Well, I know of a soldier who has size 16 boots, and they don't (or didn't in 2003) exist in the system. In Gagetown while in the training system, they forced him to wear 14's (Largest size they had) and after a year of that, his feet are now ****ed up. After arrival in Petawawa, he was given a...

Is HMS Victory a grave? Absolutely.... however, so are the battlefields of the first world war in which thousands of artifacts have been unearthed, cleaned up and sent to museums. Men have been dug up from the soil of France and Belgium for decades, and re-buried in places of honour. We seem to...

You think of trunk capacity in terms of how much explosives can be stuffed into it. You never put a dime into your car for maintennance because you know it's going to ultimately be blown up. You think of Westerner's as uncivilized barbarians, but have no objections to a beheading by...

Coldplay, It's a way Canadians have treated their Army and armed forces for years..... and it's not confined to the Forces. Canadians in general tend to mock themselves more than any other nationality..... it's part of the national psyche. I've personally found the same type of sarcastic...

How did it even get to this point? How far from their roots have Unions gone and now they have a huge portion of responsibility to accept for the current state of affairs. I feel no sympathy for any of them. Even at 50.00 an hour, this is still over 100K a year and not including overtime...

King Albert, the monarch of Belgium had already flooded it..... he ordered the sluices opened in the opening phases of the German invasion in August 1914 in an attempt to slow the Germans down while the bulk of the Belgian Army retreated to Antwerp. A Naval intervention in Belgium was simply not...

It wasn't that simple.... First of all, the Micheal offensive of early 1918 was an all or nothing gamble to win the war on the battlefield. The German leadership knew it. They took everything they had to the party in the hope's of achieving a decisive victory. Every unit that fought on the...

Please state your source in that number..... 40 German Divisions????  That is a ludicrous assessment and I would love to know the source of that comment. I know 75% of all people are inclined to believe a statement that has percentages and numbers in them, but that figure is off the wall. 40...

A general concensus among Canadian service personnel and would be it is not on to wear medals you yourself did not earn. I wouldn't wear either of my Grandfather's racks, nor would I want to even if Canadian law permitted me to do so....... I didn't earn them. Nor would I care to see my medals...

Does anybody here know how to contact the original poster? This model is beautiful, and I'd love to know where he got the LWR and sighthead covers, or if he scratch built them. In any event, My Coyote model only needs a proper LWR, sighthead covers and the guards that flank the headlights for...

Touche..... I overlooked DART, that was my mistake. Yes, they certainly do conduct some tough training to prepare them for their tasks of the humanitarian nature..... however, my point was that the Mechanized Brigades of the CF do not conduct these sort of exercises on a regular basis...

Stating that your standing Army is a "peacekeeping" force and to be used in natural disasters is a nice easy out for keeping a standing Army in force on the cheap. Many centre left politicians love that concept because it justifies stripping the budget of the Military..... "They don't need all...

To add to TCBF's comment on L.G denying reinforcements to France..... In 1917, he also agreed to take over another 28 miles of front that the French Army had been previously holding. This was an effort to have the British Army spread out over a wider AOR and thus deny more reinforcements to a...

Not that I enjoy feeding the trolls, but this cat does seem to be a little more than an average troll and has been expressing himself in a calm and thoughtful way, so I counter with this..... We do NOT train for a wide multitude of tasks my friend..... In nearly 10 years in uniform I am yet to...

It was uncalled for, especially since the Harper Government has already given it's notice to the Canadian public that the mission to Afghanistan (that the LIBERALS committed us to in the first place) will be coming to an end in it's present form of our combat troops fighting in Afghanistan. ...

I didn't want to put this into a condolence page as it just isn't the right place. However, at the end of the CANWEST news story on our 3 more fallen in Afghanistan, they had Sgt. Leger's mother on the news as well. I'm sure ol Jack Layton was liking what she had to say, but that was NOT the...

Rest easy lads, your job is done here.  :salute:

Could this OBG be the death of the Regimental system as we know it in Canada? Suppose this experiment with 2RCR is decided to be the way LFC wants the Army to run, and each infantry Battalion was re-tooled to this, what happens to the Regimental identities to the Regiments directly involved? For...