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Happy belated birthday Mike! Mine was on the same day... pretty cool, huh? :D

Kenny asked for my opinion (in chat), so here it is. First of all, I don't believe the CF should feel like it "needs" to attract women for the sake of having women in the CF, let alone in the combat arms. Targetting women as well, however, does (kind of) double the potential recruiting pool...

The poster shot was taken with a zoom lens.

A simple question from one with no military experience as of yet... if the ROEs prevent you from taking action, what's the point of being there at all?

This goes a little off topic, but I did a google search for the Polaris Institute, and this amusing page turned up: http://www.bottledwater.org/public/2005_Releases/IBWA_Challenges_Polaris_Institute_Statements.html It looks like we're not the only ones they go after... :rofl:

Goodbye, and rest in peace. My condolences to the families and friends, and a quick recovery to the injured. SAR Techs are amazing people. :cdn:

Just letting everyone know, so there is no confusion. Fun to say or not, I feel that the username I chose when I signed up here is probably a mistake if I want to be taken seriously. So I have decided to drop the "cute" part, but keep "boots" so you still know who I am. You can call me either...

Get better soon.I'm glad it wasn't worse :) It's not how I'd want to spend Canada Day...

Happy Canada Day everyone.... and a reminder to buy your alcohol in advance! :P *former delivery driver who had to wait in line most of the night on Canada Day* And more importantly... remember not to drive if you do drink. Be safe everyone, at home AND abroad :) :cdn:

This story really made me smile. :) Thank you for posting it.

You could hand out invitations to a BBQ or something like that that is held later on. The soldiers get to go home ASAP but still get to go do something to celebrate their return.

RIP

What is done with the recovered equipment?

I thought you couldn't use friends...? That was making it a lot harder. :P Fortunately, two friends I am considering asking have both known me 5 years, and have also both been my landlords. I have other people in "official" type relationships that I could ask, if needed.

I can't wait to make Isaac (my roommate) watch this... >:D He is way too much fun to torment. I'm trying to come up with a way to make him see "Little Man" when it comes out. That one looks painful, but worth it to watch his face twisting in disbelief. The problem is, he's seen the previews...

Marie (my roommate) and I decided to try one new item from the ethnic foods section every time we went to the grocery store. When we saw this one, we just had to get it. I'll just let the picture speak for itself. :D

Good job! I'm glad the boys got home safely. I bet they won't try that again... :P Who knows, maybe some future recruits?

I'm sad that the front line combat troops won't be able to have this with the rest, but I'm glad it's going there. I hope it's really well protected because it would make a great target for an attack of some kind by the insurgents... think of the loss of morale that might happen if they blew up...

Wow these are great pictures. It's nice to hear about positive things over there besides long firefights and soldiers getting blown up. Thank you! btw, what are boot bands? Can you post a picture?

After reading this article, the idea that he doesn't want us killing Taliban insurgents sets off a big red flag for me about Karzai. I can understand a desire to not have his people slaughtered, Taliban or not, but as was mentioned in the article, they used innocent civilians as shields. That is...