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It does affect both your heartrate and blood pressure. Read this. I assume you are human, so the effects of smoking are the same for you. You may want to consider quitting anyway, lest you become the hacking drop out of morning PT...

Smoking 3 cigarettes before a medical?? That's not too smart. Smoking increases both blood pressure and heartrate. Why would you do anything that would jeopardise the results of a medical examination?

Fine. Let the owner keep her music. It has no other real use, other than as an intro to HNIC. Let her eat Alpo in the dark for a year or two, and watch her come back on her hands and knees.

Had to go to Chilcotin, Wainwright or Hay River for the white stuff, for sure.

If your zipper locks due to cold, try rubbing an arctic candle along the length of the zipper. As far as web gear in winter warfare conditions, we (3PPCLI mid 80's) wore webbing, respirators and all. 

"Remember the CO who told his men to wear pantyhose under their uniforms to keep warm on parade?" Tony the Tiger Anderson, 3PPCLI ,October 1986 if memory serves. I was in penal (A) coy. I could not believe my ears.

Strathcona Hotel, the Dougie, The Esquimalt Inn, Popeyes, Tudor house, Julies?

Stop rationalizing. The bouncer needed a beating.

In my day, granted it was 20 years ago, that bouncer would have had 3 Patricias on him like a bad smell. If you were in uniform, you made the right call. If you were in civvies, That f$*%&er should have been sent to the hospital.

Well, Teddy, it seems the Gator has been withdrawn to secure areas, so I guess I was right. You can spin it any way you want, but it does not take a tour there to understand that lawn tractors have no place in harms way. The real decision makers made that call.

Colin, armies have to adapt to the threat at hand. When I was in, the threat was a massive Soviet invasion of Europe. Thats what we trained to deal with. Our training had no focus whatsoever on counter insurgency operations, EIDs or anything like that. I don't expect troops today train to deal...

Nope. I took my release some time ago. But if you are going to present a case for  Gator v. EID, I will gladly stick around and listen. It's  a vehicle designed for sportsmen and hauling yard waste.

Colin, I think we should find a safe alternative to a lawn tractor. Don't get me wrong, I think Gators are fine utility vehicles, so long as they are used in areas that uber are secure ie airfileds, bases etc.  There is no reason why Nyalas could not have been used. None.

The gist of her article, while a tad shrill, I believe is essentially correct. If one examines the overall number of IED fatalities amongst Canadian troops, its clear that IEDs present by far the largest threat. There is no reason why resupply between OPs should be done with what is essentially...

Anyone fit that description?

I have been out of the Forces for quite some time, but do they not still issue the old "Doc Savage" D ring glasses with the soft flexibhle arms that were respirator compatable? They looked stupid as hell, but they stayed on your head. As a contact lens wearer, I can't think of a worse...

www.mreinfo.com has quite a gallery of rations from around the world.

I wonder if the Kebab lady is still in the Ledra Palace kitchen.

Having transitioned from the C1A1 to the C7 in the mid eighties, one thing I noticed was this. After a day on the range or a day in BATUS, the C1 chamber and breach block were not nearly as fouled as the C7 bolt.  It was a lot easier to pop out the gas plug and piston, give them a quick scrub...

Just watched Taliban Jack on CBC Newsworld, the usual "we need to rethink the whole mission " blather. What a POS.