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25 year contract vice the 20 year contract the biggee is that you cant collect your pension untill you're 65, unlike the 20yr contract which allows you to get it on completion, so say I retire in 4 years, collect my pension, and get my next job, whatever it is it only needs to augment my...

As Crantor said, keeping them is hard now, the new contract is a big reason we're losing guys in my unit

They are completely different beasts, which makes it a nightmare for everything from installing comms-new parts etc from what I understood there was some difficulty finding sufficient LEO crews because the skill set has not been replenished since they were reduced ( I may be wrong ) the...

I agree, especially since alot of Res medics are well employed on the civie side of the house gaining alot of hands on experience

I like Hitormiss's idea of the LAV TUA- new vehicles with some great new rounds for it, and it would reduce any maintenance issues-parts and finding mechanics still qualified to fix them ( the cougars),  let alone finding drivers old enough to drive them

I sent this to Quag a while back, and it's part of some AAR's im putting together, none of it is OPSEC, I've left my guys names out, not that they'd care, but you cant be too carefull *sangin is a large town- several thousand ppl living there, the bulk of which vacated prior to the fight -got...

just wow

The debate on medals could and Im sure will, go back and forth, for every story of an American 'medal of superduperness' there is a Canadian one as well I assure you, spreadsheets, the 125, etc, perhaps we dont pin them all on everyone's chest like the Americans, we use a plethora of coins,  so...

Hopefully not hijacking thread Im not sure which part of my post was insulting ( WES ), certainly was not its intent, some clarity perhaps; -we are among the best equiped and best trained militaries in the world- and up until VERY recently, under-employed- our tactics grew stale, we didnt know...

Wound stripe or medal, an arguement for either can be made, certainly nothing wrong with the stripe as it is now, nor would a medal be out of order I dont see how an arguement of 'it's too American, or de-Canadianized' are in keeping with todays modern army, reforms are needed, outside...

Eotech - uggh hopefully they can be opened large enough, my bad

sorta the old school embedded medic thing we used to have years ago, we asked for that, but there are of course shortages everywhere, even over there, we were fortunate to keep the same medic all tour, which did bring on that sense of belonging and knowing his spot in the order of things in all...

The CCP does and most likely always will have a place, but, in over 90ish% ( this is my semi educated yet totally unscientific guess) of our instances with casualties, we had the ability to have helo's VERY fast, (opsec so no times) so the CCP was a sheltered area on the skirt of the HLS, on the...

the video of us in Hyderabad has all the opium edited out at the moment, but we busted about 15 million in black tar, it was eating through the bags and burning our hands and.....wait where am i.. well it does burn, and all we had to move it in was plastic bags that kept ripping, i'll post...

The CSS that regularly leave the wire are well trained, and there is always a CBT arm element of some makeup with them to provide a fighting capability in almost all TIC's where we had casualties we'd get them stabilized pretty much on the spot or in as safe an area as possilbe, the medics we...

I like her comment on the Mujadeheen, we met alot of former Muj that now are Police Commanders etc. they said they fought to free Astan from the russians, and are doing the same against the TB, and these were among some of the scariest old school dudes I'd ever met, glad they're on our side

the multi-cam is SO Canadian, eh

we used 'Fighting Age Guy' as an acronym also makes me giggle

that schmidt-bender thingy? our fav gun nut ( who cant have guns) swears by them, but they are a bit pricey arent they?

excellent, thanks for that site info