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Back in 85-86 the outgoing Chaplain General, then Captain Bourque, was my neighbour in the Lincoln pmq's in Calgary. He was such a quiet, gentle man that it's hard to believe that he made it to the rank of BGen. Although I guess you don't have to be rah rah and gung ho to be successful as a...

Wow. I've never seen a post regarding a tv show start and end with some kind of religious statement  :o At this stage of the series Vallas humourous comments and mammary glands are about the only reasons I keep watching  :D

Seems to me that the law of Moses and the teachings of Christ were the basis of the Dark Ages. Most of the things that we'd think of as being central to Western society - law, democracy, philosophy, medicine, education, science, to name but a few - owe their origins to ancient Greece or...

Who will protect all the gold from Goldfinger now? I toured the Patton Museum when I lived in Louisville. Great place to see for a former armour soldier. How badly will this affect the local economy?

Is that horrid faint red font the default when you quoted that? Oh my eyes!! That's quite the nightmare for someone with poor colour vision like myself. (Yes, I know if you highlight the section you can read it fine  ;) )

I was saddened to hear from a reg force rad op on another forum that the comm reservists he's worked with lately don't seem to be as well trained as they have in the past. I've also heard that comm res offr training in Kingston has been changed to it less like reg force trg than it was in the...

In 746 (at least when I was there, 91-98), barely a weekend went by when we didn't have at least one det out supporting one of the local Militia units. While I emphasized before how much the comm res likes it's independence from the Militia only a fool would not realize helping them to the best...

Well, SG-1 is cancelled, this is the last year. About time. They were letting it die a slow and painful death, a shadow of what it used to be. It wasn't the same without O'Neil and I hate the new general character, just awful. I loved Ben and Claudia from Farscape but the Mitchell character was...

Pretty much, of course I've been out of the loop for awhile. The big problems can come from the command/control relationship between Militia Units/Bdes and the Comm Sqns. Most Militia CO's are LCol's and comm sqn co's are Maj's and of course Bde Comds/Dcomd are even higher. The Militia officers...

I enjoyed 'Enemy at the Gates' by William Craig when I was a kid but that was a long time ago  :'( Note the book is not related to the movie of the same name. Check out the reviews on Amazon. Yes, Stalingrad is now Volgograd.

Because it's so easy to kill multiple people, from a distance, in a matter of seconds, with a knife or hammer  ::)

You are a better man than I for taking on this crowd over banning handguns  :salute: I didn't feel like dealing with the headaches.

The forums at anandtech, http://forums.anandtech.com/, are a great place to look for info.

8balls advice sounds like it should work, but if it doesn't consider this. When I added linux to make my machine dual boot linux did not recognize my sata hd no matter what I tried. There were two different sata connectors on the mobo, and it seems they used different types of controllers. When...

Slider Welch. Funny how I can't remember the real first name of my first Tp WO. Kevin? Edit: No, was it Keith?!

If you talk to Grod regularly say hi from Dale in Fort Lauderdale for me. We went through Chilliwack and Armour Phase training together in 84-85 and got posted to the Strats together. I made the mistake once of helping him move. I've never seen so many boxes of books in my life  :o.  And he said...

I've been out for awhile so what I can't remember has probably changed anyway. Is an ie for officers 9 years? If so, that would mean while you are doing your normal job - courses, ex's, teaching, UN tours, OPDP's (still do those?), whatever replaced the FOE's, etc, that you would have to...

I think any extra knowledge you can bring into the reg force is a good thing. Not all that is learned in the reserves is bad stuff that has to be 'unlearned.' I've seen reg force units that have the philosophy that they have to reteach newbies who come off reg force basic and trades trg and...

While there are some Canadians who aren't up on their geography don't underestimate the level of ignorance of the rest of the world in the US. I have lived in Louisville, KY for two years and North Lauderdale, FL for five and I can assure you that the 'average' American I have met at work, in my...

The bus driver hat?!?!  Nooooooooo...  That ugly thing went in a box after cfocs and never came out. Never bring that horrible thing back.