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Hey UC Mod, Some points on modding the guns (the artillery - that is...  ;D ) When they're not in a mission, they show the barrels as horizontal - yep, depending on what's going on out there on the battlefield, it is entirely possible to see the barrels level.  But, when they fire, they would...

Umm... there's a hockey-sock of us reservists over here.  We volunteered...  ;D Mark

Newshound, Thank you for the story and thanks for the support.  You possibly don't know how much you're actually contributing.  We've got the combat power to win the battles over here.  We have the discipline to keep civilian casualties down to minimum (zero, hopefully).  The only way the...

Mr. Sanchez, Getting back to the text of your article from the original post in this thread...  I see that you mentioned speaking to soldiers of this nation or that nation, but I don't see you mentioning speaking to a Canadian soldier.  You did mention Canada's involvement in this war but only...

Hey Adrian, Feel free to order your own name tags.  When you place your order with Wheelers (er, CP Gear now, that is...) you just need to specify "army" (that's what gets you the swords) and TW Cadpat.  Also, if you're not sure about something when you're ordering from them, just call the...

G'day russ, Can I call you russ?  Russianfrontphotos seems so formal...  ;D With the ubiquitousness of digital camera these days, candid photos among the troops are extremely common.  4+ months into this tour and we've got 10's of GB of pics and videos just within my subunit (about 30 guys)...

Hey MonicaB, tanks much for providing an answer during the delay in me getting online again!  ;D You mentioned that you've got links to all the articles about us...  Could you possibly contact Zanshin9D (her profile here on army.ca is Zanshin9D) and give her the links you've got?  She's got...

Well there.  The new gun tractor has been chosen.  I just searched over on the Artillery board (a quick search mind you, as there isn't a great deal of time to surf over here... :P ) and couldn't find a topic discussing the impending arrival of a new gun tractor.  I could have sworn I saw...

Yep, I've gotta quote that one too...  We had a reporter and a photographer with us in Helmund and the photog got some amazing shots.  As any gunner'll tell ya, the classic shot is the gun firing and the bullet in the air just out from the muzzle.  He got one of those with his whiz-bang...

It seems that lately I get access to a computer over here once in a blue moon.  So, to see this topic pop up during one of my brief connections is amazing.  Heartwarming to say the least.  I know the event hasn't happened yet - but - thanks in advance.  Thanks from the bottom of my heart...

Well, the link works OK from the middle of the desert...  maybe you should try it from here...  ;D When the time is right, I'll check with the chain of command here and see when and if I can send back some pics of it deployed with us. </taliban confuser>that is, if it ever is, or if it even...

:cdn: :cdn: :salute: Rest in Peace...

Yep, agreed... I thought it over a bit more this morning and came to the conclusion that to get out of action in a timely manner I 'spect we'd probably just throw the tow hook on the lunette and yoink the gun out of action.  We could then determine whether we want to portee it or not as we're...

Gotcha...  tks You'd think that there would be more pictures out there for something like this.  Everyone seems to have that same stock photo.  If I was selling it, I'd display a whack of photos and videos of it in a... photo... gallery!  Yeah, that's it!  ;D They should show a nifty video of...

To further bring this thread back to life... In June 2006 BAE Systems issued another press release concerning the 8x6 Portee.  It was to make its debut at a Paris arms show (Eurosatory).  Here's a link to the word doc press release: http://baesystems.com/newsroom/2006/jun/docs/137.doc...

Agreed, roll it right into the budget.  For the first year or so (or whatever time period...) make the testing random, frequent and ubiquitous across the forces.  Once that first big push has started to produce significantly diminshed positive hits, then scale the testing back to something less...

thank you. :salute:

Excellent link Dragoon!  I'm embarassed to say that I haven't seen that one before... Imagine!  Learnin' bout the craft on army.ca! 

Mercy.  I did not know that... Well, in the words of Mud Recce Man... :salute: So, hey, if you move back sometime in the next few years your daughter can join up and be a 4th gen gunner!

Well, whaddya know... I didn't realize you were a 3rd gen gunner.  When did your grandfather serve? Mark