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A Happy St. Barbara's Day to all gunners, gunner adjacents, wannabee gunners and everyone in general. 🍻

Attached is a Rand pdf link to the above noted report published in 2024 by the Congressional Commission set up to review and report on the Presiden't National Defence Strategies. A declassified copy of the Biden administrations 2022 NDS can be found here. 🍻

To any gunners or anyone else who was in Afghanistan We are still searching for extra photos to consider for inclusion in the book "With A Few Guns: The Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery in Afghanistan, Volume 1" which covers the period from Operation APOLLO in 2002 to TF 3-06 at the end of...

I'm trying to track Lou Penny, a Patricia, who would have been a Cpl in 3 PPCLI on Op Apollo in 2002 for permission to use one of his photographs in a book. Does anyone have any recent contact information for him? 🍻

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Coincidentally, just before the appointment of a new Defence Minister for the German Armed Forces, Spiegel Magazine had published a damning article on the state of the German Armed Forces and where the fundamental problems are. Unsurprisingly its in the massive bureaucracy that runs it. Oh so...

So, I'm reading Doonesbury this morning and come across this. So I look up RTM and amongst other things find this article. Has anyone heard of this program and is whether or not CAF related programs are using it? 🍻

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Interestingly the division of powers in Canada parallels that of the US re the military. It could mean that a strong Federal job support legislation for reservists in Canada could be upheld by the courts in a division of powers dispute. The four dissenting judges' opinion would have less weight...

A couple of months ago (just as the Soviets Russians were beginning to bog down) I did an interview reaching back to 2007 where an artillery observer working with a combat team in complex terrain in Pashmul that was ambushed by roughly a platoon sized force used a TUAV to identify and track the...

A Battery, 1 RCHA, the oldest serving element of the Regular Force Army has been granted the the honorific title "The Queen's" by Her Majesty. Ubique. 🍻

Makes one chuckle a bit about Canada's fetish in avoiding mixed fleets because of their maintenance complexity. Here we have a nation using equipment and weapons, in the middle of a war, coming from numerous countries of both the NATO and Warsaw Pact and from numerous decades going back to...

The Pentagon has sent a classified version of its 2022 National Defense Strategy to Congress. A non classified version should be available in a few weeks. I the interim there is a short fact sheet available on it. The last NDS was issued in 2018 by Mattis. 🍻

As some of you know I'm part of a team writing a history of the Artillery during Afghanistan. As part of my part of the project I am writing about Army and Artillery Transformation during the period 2000 to the present. I have a fairly large pool of documents available however there are a...

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Ronnie Spector, former wife of Phil Spector and lead singer of the Ronettes died today. The Wall of Sound at its best. My generation is dying out. :cry: 🍻

I was looking for some stock photos on the public facing Combat Camera (or the friendlier "Image Gallery") and can't seem to find any reference to any of our Op Athena etc ops and photos. Am I just imagining things or have these disappeared? If not, does anyone have a link? 🍻

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Happy Saint Barbara's Day to all my fellow gunners and those that make things go boom in the night. 🍻

This latest article by Murray Brewster on the CBC website is once again floating the idea of civilianizing military prosecutors and defence counsel.Liberals to study plan to move military prosecutors and defence lawyers to civilian justice system Back in the post Somalia days I was part of a...