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The bottom line up front is that it is illegal to abuse/torture prisoners, regardless of their legal status. That obligation begins the moment they come under your control. You do not need to be a Harvard lawyer to understand this. I am shocked at some of the flawed logic being applied here...

Good on you Sapper477 for doing the right thing and apologising in this forum. I think your second explanation of the problem is well laid out and thoughtful. I am sure this little event will go down as a lesson learned. I gave you a point for admitting to your error and making amends...

Most people are not motivated by money. We are all reasonably well paid. People leave the Forces because of Quality of Life issues, lack of challenge and lack of respect. The QOL is effected by the frequency of deployment to senseless missions. Happly we seem to be over those, I think most...

I'm with Sapper 6 in this. I make no apologises for being a proud Engineer. I also support soldiers looking for an OT. That is how the system is designed. Really how many of us knew exactly what we were getting into when we joined the glorious Engineers? Very few of us. For gents like Sapper6...

I think we are losing a bit of focus on the topic. Let me try and bring it back on line. The Light Engineers have to be more then just following an Infantry section from point A to point B. If that was all there is to it, bring back the Pioneers. There is much more to Light Engineering then...

More bad news, they are right you are going to die, as we all will. As for the 2 VP Sergeants pitch on peacekeeping, I seldom take three hand word as the gospel. We all tend to hear what we want to hear. I am sure a SNCO in the PPCLI is rightly proud of the VPs and the CF fighting tradition. I...

I will offer a personal story from Kuwait/Iraq. Our Squadron was deployed there following the first Gulf War in 1993. Our Engineer support to the DMZ included getting rid of hazardous explosives. Our sections spent many a day hauling out tank rounds from shot up T -72  and T-65 Iraqi tanks...

First, in asymmetric warfare that is being fought in places like Iraq or Afghanistan, there is no front line. That is a dynamic of noncontiguous warfare. You fight the bad guys where they show up or the intelligence leads. If you check the stats on causalities the Americans have suffered in...

I would suggest you write an article on helicopter pilot WO Hugh Thompson, who when witnessing the Mai Lai Massacre, placed his aircraft between the American soldiers and the Viet villagers. He then ordered his crew to shot any Americans that continued to kill civilians. To give American...

The US Army is taking this very seriously. They now issue torniquets to all going to OEF and OIF, Op Enduring Freedom and Operation  Iraqi Freedom. I know the arguement is that you may cause more harm then good.They see it like a reserve parachute, its a life saver, not a limb saver. I will try...

IMHO Sapper 477 needs to grow up. IF you have an issue with someone in 1 CER take it up with them. It is easy to hide in here and make comments that slag the whole Regiment. I hope you get your re-muster soon.  You can take the attitude with you and I hope you are happy in the AF. I doubt that...

We had several different missions in Afghanistan in 02. I will talk about three that really emphasize Lt Ops and Engrs. First, one very unsexy mission and the  troops did a great job. This was being put in the line as part of the perimeter defence of the airfield and the base. Based on 4 Troop...

Congrats to the "immediate supervisors" that took action. I am surprised that they didn't know that the MO should have been the first POC. I am only making a comment not making an attack, I don't know the individuals or rank/experience levels. Well done on doing the right thing. It sounds like...

Well written Sapper6, I share your pain. Keep up the god fight!  :salute:

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I recently wrote a history paper on the 1st SSF. One of the best reference books I could find was this one: Burhans, Robert. The First Special Service Force. Washington Infantry Journal Press 1947. Robert Burhans was an officer in the Force and wrote an accurate and telling story of the...

I felt like you when I first joined...nothing would happen fast enough. The best advice I can give you is work hard, be fit and do your best. Listen twice as much as you speak and read everything you can about the Army and the Combat Engineers. If you want to be a leader you have to be a reader...

I found this article on the DND website. www.dnd.ca   One of the persons involved is Lt Patton, the very person for which the 1 CER building is named. "At Brooklands, the motorsport and aviation centre near Weybridge, Surrey, the saw-tooth plate-glass roof of the Vickers-Armstrong factory (home...

Gully makes some good points. Without a doctrine, role and specific equipment and most importantly training, we as Engineers will always be behind the power curve and we will not be able to provided the capability to its maximum potential. Some may argue that we are doing just fine in the...

SOURCE: BY GARTH PRITCHARD THE FINEST SIDE OF CANADA A VETERAN OBSERVER OF MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD HAS NO DOUBT OUR SOLDIERS ARE OUR BEST EMISSARIES I've just returned from Kandahar, where I was documenting the arrival of 250 Canadian soldiers who are part of the Provincial Reconstruction...