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Not only haven't you thought that one through, you haven't even begun. The CF cannot legally do that, but the optics of having a soldier slagged by the resources of the federal government in an follow-up article containing nothing but hearsay and gossip to prove what a POS said individual is...

Well, not a lot of reporters are 'specialists' - most are general assignment (GA), which means today it's a house fire, tomorrow it's city council, next day it's a university funding announcement, to be followed by a police-involved shooting. I'm not an expert in structural fires, municipal...

Well, I suspect you know who I am and you know what I do, so you know I'm not one of the bad guys, if not necessarily sharing the rarified air of St. Christie, but on an operational level, the CF is very good at explaining itself, given OPSEC and other constraints. And that's both on the level...

Oh, and having read all three parts of the series, I gotta ask from a professional POV: where the HELL is the CF? 'No comment' doesn't cut it. PAOs are paid quite well to field calls like this, and the minister certainly is, where's the CF talking about the PTSD clinics, the evaluation before...

I've covered maybe one or two cases involving Canadian (and American) soldiers in court in Kingston (surprising, but it DOES happen) and the delegated officer is always in uniform. They don't usually attend routine matters such as remands or scheduling dates, as they can pick that up with a...

People do have the freedom to be idiots. Other people, even those in the "secular elite" whatever the hell that is, are free to tell them that that it is exactly what they are personifying.  Democracy - ain't she grand?

Sounds like he must have been working in HUMINT.

In real life, yes. On the Internet? No, and I say that not just as a Constitutional lawyer but as a Navy SEAL and Victoria Cross winner who is also a three-time Miss Hot College Student pageant winner. Not to say you can't make someone's life miserable who is doing it, but going into detail...

Access To Information. Learn it, love it, write the $5 cheque, send it in with your request form for per-capita comparitive mess expenses and let the ATIP co-ordinator do the work. They have 30 days and you don't agree to an extension, although they will ask you for one. Don't want your name...

Next you'll be complaining about having to wear the same clothes as everyone else too, or get up early. RMC food is no worse than the swill dished out at Queen's, and way better than what you get at KAF. For what it's worth, you should eat at the senior staff mess – I've yet to have a bad meal...

Excellent book on logistics is coming out in a week or two: As anyone in a battle group can tell you, an armoured vehicle without ammunition or diesel is little more than one of the world's most expensive radios. Getting those commodities to a fighting force in the field -- along with food...

Because Canada does not have a system of censorship?

I'll put in a plug for Wellcos. I was given a pair before I went to Afgh by someone who bought a pair prior to his roto and left them here because he didn't like the way they fit. I figured I'd wear them and send them to Goodwill when I got back but they turned out to be one of the most...

Dunno what being in the infantry has to do with it, but my dad raced rally, and I learned to drive in one of his Cooper S models. I could have impressed the hell out of the MTO instructors with a handbrake turn to scrub off speed on a gravel road but chose not to. It's not expensive, you can...

Heh - in the 1970s, IIRC, the CF brought in a reg that base water had to be flouridated, and because CFB Kingston is on municipal water, that meant everyone else in the area served by that pumping station was getting it too, although water in the rest of the city was never flouridated. Hysteria...

Chemtrails have long been one of my favourite conspiracies as the people who believe in them are generally just harmless tinfoil hatters rather than the type of truly unhinged paranoids who are convinced that thermite brought down the WTC after all the Jews were told by Mossad to stay home on...

Pink is actually a remarkably effective arid camo colour, so this guy was a bit ahead of the curve.

Great, another n00b we'll have to break in when you're done with Cornwall.  ;D

Not an expert, but I was able to ask these very questions to B.Gen Thompson, the ROC, ambassador Hoffman and others when I was over there a few months ago - it's nice that PRT and OMLT and the even more dangerous POMLT continue to be a reconstruction priority but how do you do force protection...

As it is a low-lying island, they are also vulnerable to tsunamis, but no one's losing sleep about that. Also, nine Navy ships tasked with protecting 7,000 miles of coast? Wonder how that compares to us, with or without the Arctic Ocean figured in.