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And our government's dealings with the Iranian dictators surprises anyone?  This country (and the liberals in particular) has a long history of willfully ignoring dangerous and sadistic regimes.  Anyone remember Mackenzie King's assessment of Hitler in 1937? "My sizing up of the man as I sat...

It lists the supp reserve because you can be on the supp reserve and perform class A, B or C service, which qualifies for the CD.

Mess kit configuration is a regimental/branch thing, since a mess kit is not a uniform, so there is no set rule that applies army-wide,i.e no definitive answer on cummberbund vs waistcoat.

Google is your friend http://www.ahc-ottawa.org/ 7th Floor, Suite 710 50 O'Connor Street Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6L2

VFS is pretty much an all-around nightmare in most cases.  We have a long list of people for whom we are waiting for a VFS, ex-RegF and former members of the unit.  Some files have been gathering dust for over a year now, and lucky us, we're just across the river from the Two-Towered Squirrel Cage.

The Voyageur/Greyhound busses leave every hour during the day.  Train is every couple of hours.  Metro goes all day/night long.  Busses from Longueuil to St-Jean used to run hourly from something like 6 AM to 11 PM - prolly still do, or do even better considering that anything within 50kms of...

There is regular bus and train service between Ottawa and Montreal.  In Montreal, take the Metro to Longueuil on the South Shore.  Unless things have changed dramatically for the worse, busses for St-Jean leave from there regularly.  In my younger days, I did the St-Jean/Ottawa trip fairly...

State of Shock, aka Power Play  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078105/.   IIRC, some of the outdoor scenes looked like Bonnland, the Hammelburg FIBUA training "town".

Sorry to burst your bubble, but no defined contribution plan can top a defined benefit plan of the CF or Public Service kind.  The reason a lot of employers moved to DC plans in the last 20 years is because they are cheaper for the employer - the employee bears the investment return risk, not...

Just to keep the information 100% on track - it will not be worn on combats.  DEU only.  That information came from higher headquarters and was passed on by our RSM last night.

Perhaps someone needs to remind this gentleman that respect begets respect and contempt begets contempt.  He may not feel anything for the Canadian flag and anthem, but out of politeness, he should show it the same respect as he would no doubt wish non-aboriginals to show his eagle staff.

Never in the course of human civilization has so much been done by so few with so little. *With all due apologies to Winston Churchill*

I did my basic jump course with a guy who had something like 2000 free-fall jumps in the civilian world.  'Nuff said.

188 - You don't hold staff meetings at your civilian work, you hold O Groups 189 - You show up 10 minutes early at civvie job staff meetings "to take the trace"

pbi, Having worked in our wonderful Federal Public Service ever since I hung up my RegF beret, I've come to learn that the problem in this kind of situation is not at the political level but at the bureaucracy level.  The federal bureaucracy is very powerful and pretty much determines what...

Because people prefer the status quo?  They don't want things to change and are afraid that if the Conservatives get to power, things will change.  The known devil is better than the unknown one, especially the devil with Reform flavours still swirling around party policy.  Or you can blame the...

We have a 56 year old Lt in my unit.  He joined up at the ripe old age of 44 as an Ocdt.  But on average, reserve subalterns are in their twenties.

What? You haven't learned to treat self-promotion from that particular regiment the same way you would a skeeter buzzing around your head  ;D

Gawd - there are firing ports on the Grizzly - useless, useless, useless.  Can't see properly, can't aim properly, can't fire properly.  Their only use was for chucking out cigarette butts while on admin moves.

Uh - I think you're looking at that one back-a$$wards.  Perhaps a tad more TI before making sweeping declarations would be a good idea.  Course senior is actually that much more difficult than section senior. And just to keep matters on the up and up - our BMQ is small enough that all we have is...