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Time to paraphrase: Shock and awe â “ original post intended to piss everyone off worked. Fully acknowledge what it really is to be a reservist (talking about the people who contribute as normally full time civilians and then add the military side â “ twice the citizen one pam said)...

Oh I was never arguing the regular devotion you HAVE to have in the militia.  I would add to that the reserve joy behind having a civ job where the employer values you enough that a week after telling him you would not be working the summer your summer long dream task to Vernon falls through...

Much to the determent to myself it is obvious that I did not make the source of my compliant perfectly clear.  I am not saying that reservists should not go on tour.  Nor am I saying that there isn't a percentage of people in the regular force who are not selfish - I even state in my opening...

This is spawned by the current discussions about reserves on overseas tours. Selfishness (Self"ish*ness) n. 1. Meanly close and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. 2. The quality or state of being selfish; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony...

Would echo all of the above points with respect to fitness and your soldiers. If you feel that on your own you want to aim for a time for 2.4 km (1.5 miles) - look at 9 minutes 45 sec; that's the minimum standard for the Cooper's Test. "Your fitness should be to a level where it isn't a...

I am going to second Acorn here - Please let me say that in no way am I getting involved in the right and wrongs of dress as an officer that would be somewhat out of my lane... Anyhow a lot of Officer's Messes have the usual rules for what is acceptable dress in different areas of the mess.  It...

I'll throw in my vote for CrossFit (again). If you check out the archive for July 2005: http://www.crossfit.com/mt-archive2/2005_07.html scroll down to July 20th...... Its a good pic.

I like how Alabama solved the problem.  http://www.ador.state.al.us/motorvehicle/militaryview.html Specific plate denotes how the plate was 'earned'.  Civilian's get as much out of it as the current plate - yeap it says vet on it.  For those who know, identifies why the plate was 'awarded'...

Please remember that there will also come a time when you have to â Å“correct a faultâ ? of an NCO.  If there is time don't hesitate to ask for guidance from places such as the Coy/Sqn 2i/c, the Adjt.  Its not a lot of fun. on the lighter side they usually will not tear up as mentioned...

This might be a bit of a moot point, as my understanding is that the new system once the candidate arrives in Gagetown he/she/it takes CAP (Common Army Phase) followed by DP 1.1 then DP 1.2.  While they seem similar as DP 1.1 focuses on dismounted TTPs and DP 1.2 focuses on mechanized TTP there...

It's curious that in a rush to adopt US terminology that we frequently mis-quote it or change it. In most presentations I have heard on the 3 Block War everyone in the CF (including a post above) refers to block 1 as being war-fighting.  This is in fact not what Gen Krulak wrote. â Å“On the...

Would have to ask where you are going on course. If you find yourself at CTC you will have to wear the issue ballistic eye-wear, which kind-of closely match my MEC cycling glasses, in the field...

In a vain attempt to establish more succinctly where I stand on the non-issue kit let me relate the following: In the fall of 1998 the Comd of 1 CMBG (Col Leslie at the time) stated to the assembled Bn that he didn't care what we wore in the field as long as it worked and we looked Canadian. ...

Not to be rude but isn't that what I said with my sentence: as for the other post Not too sure where you are going with this.  In my little story I needed repairs done to my webbing (belt was only thing not needing repairs) and the mat techs fixed but after a certain time frame.  I original...

It's funny, I just scanned through the four pages here and discovered that no one has seriously addressed one of the dominant thoughts behind issue kit is it's replacement. I am sure you can argue that companies will send their go faster kit everywhere you want to, but if for some reason your...

I would have to disagree with you on the 14 Int writ large from above. From the BBC: "Mr Heyman, a senior defence analyst for Jane's Consultancy Group and former Army major sees the regiment as principally supporting the SAS. "The best way to describe the new unit would be halfway between...

This dates back to December of 2004 when under the UK Future Army Structure the Army managed to save an infantry battalion being cut from the service by reroling it as a 'Ranger'-type or special forces support role battalion. From what I understand (read - what I read in JDW) 1 PARA is being...

I was under the impression, and this impression was coming from CPC, that the key reason behind the QOR jump tasking was to support training at CPC. Not some behind the door method of delivery course to augment the Reg Force. It's not like the 'old days' when the LERs had a tasking, and I...

Excuse my english but ya gotta wear 'em to jump.

Here's a tangent, Seeing all of those pictures with the guys wearing the 'old' tan combats reminded me that one of thethe ski team told me that they recieved the new arid CADPAT soon after 3 VP left K'har. This made me somewhat upset.  I felt that the powers that be had withheld the CADPAT...