Recent content by CanadianGuy

Agreed, just to clarify I meant the US Mickey Mouse boots may be good in slush and water-Not our mukluks unless you want trench foot.

When I was with the LSSR we would conduct the usual w/e winter ex's and often invited up 20ish US National Guard troops from St.Paul-Minneapolis who would come wearing their issue winter gear including the white rubber "Mickey Mouse" winter boots. We would offer to issue them our CF Mukluks for...

There has been debate on different outdoors/military internet forums about Snugpaks temperature rating being somewhat optimistic but I've got a few of their sleeping bags and have had no problems with them and staying warm. Snugpak lists a "comfort" and a "low" temperature for their clothing and...

I agree with you daftandbarmy and a good Goretex rainjacket/pants (such as will soon be issued) would be a good option for such weather conditions. The mountaineering community also uses the Pertex/pile type clothing such as Buffalo and Snugpak sell...

Goretex is not needed in cold temps and in fact is highly detrimental to the individual wearing it, it protects mainly against H20 from the outside and obviously in dry cold this is not a problem. It will cause moisture build up in the clothing/sleeping bag which will degrade the insulating...

I've been using the Coleman Exponent Multi-fuel single burner stove for some time without problem. Pros include easy lighting even in the cold, very adjustable flame, can use a variety of fuels, burns hot, fairly rugged design, fits in a nice square aluminum Coleman case/pot, some parts can be...

doncab quote: "Other" ways of conducting international affairs have been done and as I stated in my first post they failed. Let me again focus on pointing out some of the recent, most notable failures of the world (western nations) in trying to stop war, conflict, genocide, famine,etc.. Since...

Obviously there is a great divide between kgerrards beliefs on international affairs and the military and the viewpoints of the forum members including myself. Kgerrard accuses the Canadian government (and other countries) and our military of doing things incorrectly in places such as...

Was doing a one day training session and a US Army Colonel was present with us wearing the ACU uniform and as some say it overall has a grayish green colour to it and there is very little diference between the lightest and darkest colours. I would think it would be very effective in urban...

Res Army Infantry since joining in 1984. Currently hold the rank of Sergeant and the position of Section Commander and am still holding strong with the younger troops but you have to work hard at the physical fitness thing more as the years accumulate!

I just received the CPGear "compression sack" (in CADPAT of course!) in the mail today and I can say that it is a very well made piece of kit, it is not to be confused with the larger CPGear "valice". The compression bag is the same material as the new small pack with a heavy "rubberized"...

Liberal party is rumoured to be $30+ million in debt, 2nd lowest votes for it in its history will get it not much for funding from votes received, previous ban on big donations and with the Accountability Act banning business and Union donations the Liberal Party is in serious trouble. Add to...

Hi Matt, I hope those rubber "Mickey Mouse" boots you listed are not the same white ones I was referring to. In NW Ontario on exercises with some US Army Reservists in January in -40 to -50 temps they got into serious trouble as the boots were ridiculously inadequate at those temps. Other then...

Its been a few years since I've trained with any US forces in the winter (last in 1995?)  but they had winter kit that just wasn't suited for serious cold, especially those white rubber winter mukluk boots! I hope they don't use those anymore, anyone care to comment? Attached  is a photo of...

Thanks KevinB for refreshing my memory, its been a few years! It was only ran once and I don't remember any Reg Force soldiers on it but it was a mix of NCO and Officer ranks as candidates. I do remember the 35 km  cross country (and on road) navigation ex/ruck march that had to be done in less...