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    Danner Desert Acadia 10EE Model 26000

    Danner Desert Acadia 10EE Model 26000 (ie no GTX and side vents) wore then about the house for a week and 2 jaunts around the block, just didn't fit right, settled on a pair on 10.5EE that fit much better.  Can email pics upon request (still trying to figure out how to post pics), asking $130...
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    Memories of Germany

    Great memories........... Attached BDF in 91-92, sad days at times, stockpiles of 10T MAN trucks, and all kinds of imaginable holding being auctioned off.  Refusing to rent a Citogen or VW Polo, as they sounded way too bad only to find out on leave in Heidleburg a VW Polo is a VW Fox in North...
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    Reservists Job Protection Superthread

    News release from the Govt of Manitoba website (www.gov.mb.ca) April 5, 2007 MANITOBA INTRODUCES LEGISLATION THAT WOULD PROTECT RESERVISTS' JOBS WHILE THEY SERVE Legislation that would protect the jobs and benefits of civilians who are in the reserves and leave for extended periods to serve...
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    Reservists Job Protection Superthread

    very misleading without any soucre to back it Without an actual link to Manitoba's Employment Standards Act, detailing the actual provisions of the changes to the act, the papers article is pretty much useless.  I just spent 2 hours perusing and searching the changes comming in force on 30...
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    MLVW Replacment?

    That would make way too much sense, and prevent the bureaucracy from spending lots of taxpayers money on "studies" and other useless money wasters, they much prefer to waste piles of money, letting some crackhead build it here in Canada.  Just go out and buy a COTS platform and be done with it...
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    All things GPS (recommendations, tips, etc.) - merged

    Just to throw somethign else into the fire........ WAAS (although a great marketing ploy) in only available within the United States and very small portions of Canada, last check there were only 3 transmitters active within Canada.  A WAAS signal is not available within 1 hour north of Pet. ...
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    Individual Soldier Shelter (ISS)

    Simple things can be done to the issue bivy bag to make it almost as good as  the ISS.  Velcro around the the opening, in which one can affix a bug met, and webbing around the circumference of the opening to permit one to keep the netting off tour face an improve ventilation, and when the...
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    Coming home for TLC

    Seeing as the payment issue has been defined... Seeing as foreign facilities have been dealing with these types of injuries intimately for many years, I too share the same opinion as GO!!! with regards to treatment, till such time as substantive information can be present to rebut my opinion.
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    Coming home for TLC

    As GO!!! mentioned.. As the article stated though, are we really doing what is best for the injured, bringing them back to an overtaxed civilian system with long waiting lists and virtually no experience in treating battlefield injuries? Would the severely wounded not be better off in the care...
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    Individual Soldier Shelter (ISS)

    Not very long ago , bivy bags were an individual private purchase, along with gore-Tex Boots/socks, US rain gear, ranger blankets etc... .  Not much considering todays kit, but snivel gear all the same.  Integral Design (CDN Company) and Survival Aids (UK Company) got alot of business in years...
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    Name The Weapon!!!

    Gonna go with a SIG 5......... not a 581 but older school
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    Medics in Afghanistan on frontline

    Gunner98 "If we continue to state that the situation is an eyeopener for anyone, especially our medics, then we leave the media observer/reader with the perception that we have not trained them properly.  It is widely known that the level of trauma and blast injuries cannot be simulated during...
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    Medics in Afghanistan on frontline

    Sir, (Gunner98), Do you feel that the article as printed was positive or negative in the overall perspective of the CF, and most notably the CFMS?  Myself as a former soldier, and one whom has been in the care of CFMS pers, I believe the article can help to provide insight to the general public...
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    Medics in Afghanistan on frontline

    Gunner98, Well I have been trying to type a reply for almost an hour thus far, but have taken the opportunity to read and re-read my views.  At present all I can say is, your views regarding the average civilian, and the meaning of defenitative care.  Imagine a small town town in Canada with...
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    Advice needed - Best Winter Gloves?

    As some have previously mentioned, the issued kit (especially today) is amazing.  I as thousand of others survied wearing issused kit for many years, did I get cold......yes............did I get wet.....yes.  With all the fancy high-tech gear today...does one still get wet...yes.........stil...
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