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You would be suprised at how specialized most other armies are when it comes to signals branch.  Most have a very limited scope of practice.  For instance, the Brits would not have an operator who could do both satcom and tac rad and the americans are even worse yet.  New Zealand and Australia...

I have been in for 17 yrs with the army out of the 19 I have been in.  Your body gets broken like you said but also, and more of what I was getting at, your mind says you can do it, but your body just won't!!! :crybaby:  Good example is the 6' wall.  It was easy when I was 21 but now, it is a...

I was told that the two guys that were coming on ex with us while we were in Ottawa were two keen guys.  I don't ussually loose my cool but I blew up over the two of them on several occations for things I would expect someone out of the school to do let alone a person that has been in for 3 yrs...

I was talking about a veh antenna with the green branch so that if you hit a overhanging branch while on the move, it would be able to flex with the strike.  It is also attached to the tx part of the antenna so it doesn't matter if it will conduct or not.  I agree though for a field expediant...

Quite different than any I have been on before.  No weapons but all the same restrictions as when we were in Kabul.  I feel like a prisoner at times until on the weekend they bus us down to the Meridian Hotel for some R&R.  Ahh, waiting for saturday. This is more like being on exercise than a...

after stopping laughing for a half an hour, I can say that Comox is a no go after your threes. Can you say edm, val, or Pet!!!!

I know guys that I have gone through my TQ3 and 5 with that are still in Pet or Edmonton.  Depends on you, your body (yes, two different entities) and the needs of the military.

Really, I haven't touched a .50 Cal Browning Machinegun in 12 yrs but I still know it fires at 600 rnds per min and can be put into single shot fire mode.  Max tracer burn is approx 1800 m but wpn effective out to 2500 m (could fire a lot further but not effectively). I have worked with your...

Thats because your extra special Luck881. :P

Bruce, Strong words and very encouraging.  I am currently on tour (although very comfortable one), I wish we would have this training before we go overseas.  This tour came up so fast we didn't have time to do any training of any type.  I think this is training that should be done annually or...

I am patrolling these pages as I sit in Dakar, Senegal.

Yeah, your day off for kitchen duty, laundry detail, catch up on your sleep day. Seriously, you should get most of your weekends off but then you are on a condence course run by reservists, who knows.

Well sorry for not responding to you gents in a timely fashion. That is good that they are taking it seriously at the Bdes still.  We did some training on it in May as well but was too quickly thrown togeather. As for teaching it to the young lads, the reserve trucks I saw this summer before...

I'll be the judge of that after seeing what Ottawa has to put out for reserve sig ops!!!

Stop that Jimmypeon, fresh meat for us at the regiment. In all honesty, go to a Brigade as a private.

My CO here in Senegal was mentioning that we were keeping something like 25 pers there in logistical and communications fields.  The 16 Cnds in Fauar would likely stay but Zouani would be probably the 5 in Polbat and 4-5 in 0 bunker as advisors. Roto 59 reunion here we come!!!!!

I have been to all three places and no not close!  The Golan is Lava rocks, Afghanistan is clay (at least in Kabul) and Kingston is the centre of all things evil especially the Regiment (he he).  Enough out of you CND Sig.  I know were you work.

Well my first post from overseas from not so sunny Africa.  Now Canadian Sig, they would never teach anything at the school that it was not meant to be done in the real world, would they???? I hope I don't sound to synical.

Although I don't care for her antics on the hill, I think she has made the effort to respond.  By being brutally ignorant in our responses to her will only cause her to distrust us as well.  Providing our own proof to counter her arguments is the only way to convincer her were she has erred. ...