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His visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al Sharif in 2000 is a day I will not soon forget...dodging burning cars and rioters in the aftermath while driving a UN-marked pickup truck!

MOOXE, Can.community.military this forum ain't! Miss it, though....

Another close call in the South China Sea? Reads like a slow-motion version of this past incident: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

Interesting and thorough discussion of this story at link: http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/528486-females-can-not-march-like-men.html - mod edit to fix link -

10 Platoon 8533 RTOP/Rad-Op/Sig-Op/ACISS/soon-to-be-retired Jimmy here...I have a very clear memory of an Aero Engine Tech YTEP being told that of his entire class in Borden, only one would be allowed to stay in the trade after their year was up... I had to wonder what the GAFF level was like...

Bill Robinson's blog Lux Ex Umbra on the CSE is always worth a read... http://luxexumbra.blogspot.ca/

Thanks for posting the link to John's obituary, 211RadOp...saw the post on the C&E Website, but nothing else in the way of links or info... Between John and Jason Pearce, never a dull moment on mids in Lahr...!

Saw this on the CBC news ticker the other morning... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2013/03/04/mb-ptsd-pat-stogran-battle-scars.html

Speaking of Zurich in the 80's, I hope this works out better than that "discrete location" for IV drug users I recall visiting...right in the middle of the city!

I wanted to stick a knitting needle through my ears when this story ran on the CBC morning news....leave it to our national broadcaster to make this their lead story a couple days before Remembrance Day. Watching "Power and Politics" today, I found it interesting to see the discussion panels'...

Hah! "Pull-throughs for the 106 whip"...I love it! Now if only I could find that misplaced box of Routing Indicators...

Hmmm... Refractive Region/Refractive Layer exercises...set up the CP and CRTTZ dets, send dits and dahs and Baudot code back and forth from Shilo to Victoria and everywhere in between, just using  knowledge of the D E F1 and F2 layers...and 400 watts of RF power, baby! Setting up that stinking...

Mefloquin turned me into a newt! Wacky Wednesdays on ROTO 0 in Kandahar...my nightmares were more entertaining than anything else in that dust pit.....

Seems like an appropriate time to resurrect this thread. The results of the Leading Seaman's appeal was posted yesterday: http://www.cmac-cacm.ca/decisions/CMAC-524_e.pdf Their Court Martial appeal was dismissed. A quote of note; "In fact, LS Reid and LS Sinclair are fortunate to still have a...

How to make friends and influence people at NDHQ. A cursory search of the principal names reveals: http://tinyurl.com/5kzt3r Link is to cached Google page, since the original Travelblog posting disappeared sometime last night... Also: http://www.siegelproductions.ca/ottawarocks/skills.htm...