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After reading that opinion piece and seeing what RFCAs have to say about themselves https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/reserve-forces-and-cadets-associations/about My immediate thought was "quango" (with a nod to "Yes Minister") or in current official Humphreyspeak "Executive...

And the other two fantasies from the same Sept 1969 issue of Popular Mechanics article

If it were as simple as an enema. An enema "may" solve the problem if the problem is just being "full of shit". But when being "full of . . ." continues for an extended time that likely leads to fecal impaction, a manifestation that often requires someone to get one's hands dirty, to get in...

While I may be approaching an age that's the target demographic for a "mobility" scooter, I'm also of a generation that associates "scooter" with or many other (foreign?) movies of the '60s or '70s that were the European version of "biker" movies. But not to forget the ultimate bad boy scooter.

I also recall similar discussion, though it was focused on USA (not North America). Going back a few years, studies indicated that the UK had significant better safety records. A 26-year comparative review of United Kingdom helicopter emergency medical services crashes and serious incidents...

I'll likely ask questions about this when I go for my training sessions next week. I'm scheduled to work at advance voting places (which are held the week before the referendum day) and on the day will be on the counting team (currently scheduled to work from 4PM to 4AM). The special ballots...

By your logic then, two other sub-components of the Reserves (plus those members of COATS who are not of the CIC occupation) should also not be CAF members - the Supplementary Reserve and the Canadian Rangers. "Universality of service" does not apply to both of those sub-components. However...

I know I should have sympathy for a man lying in the street in agony but a certain image intrudes . . .

Would anyone be able to find it?

Luckily, most patients that I handled back when I was "lifting and toting" usually were under a weight threshold that didn't require a NATO MLC marking painted on their ass. But there were two that I remember. The first was in Edmonton during the Commonwealth Games in 1978, 1 Fd Amb's...

Alberta defines it as . . . https://publicshare.albertahealthservices.ca/teams/policydocuments/1/clp-prov-ems-bariatric-response-ambulance-ps-ems-06.pdf And how many it should take to move one . . .

How many of those injuries are caused getting an already stretchered patient into the bus vice getting the fat b******d onto the cot and down the stairs, or later during transfer at destination? https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7550220/

I was wondering what "security" tasks those additional infantry battalions performed. (from the source material that Wiki page used) https://web.archive.org/web/20110811162158/http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/uk/gulforbat1990.html Prisoner of War Guard ForceBrigade strength force...

If at first you don't succeed, try again - 22 years later. This isn't the first time that the UK government wanted to house asylum seekers at that site. (from 12 Mar 2004) https://www.propertyweek.com/archive/a-hostile-welcome Not to think that they only objected to asylum seekers, but they...

Piddington? Ahh, I remember it because it sounded like a place where you went to have a piss. Incredibly, the CAF almost had a base there. Well, not really. Near forty years ago, following the 1987 Defence White Paper, one of the projects we looked at that fell under ALMS (ACE Logistics and...

There were a bunch of videos from the 1980s that might answer some of your questions.

Thank you for providing that link. It's a savvy reminder that some things are not worth wasting time or energy.

And in European monarchy news https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/08/28/norways-king-harald-v-dies-at-the-age-of-89-palace-confirms

Trumps signs executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America".