On exercise with the reserves

[MarkOttawa]

Brigitte Pellerin and John Robson of the Ottawa Citizen muck in (from Reader's Digest):

In Action With Our Weekend Warriors
http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/spotlight/2007/01/03/warrior.pdf#page=1

Mark
Ottawa

 

[jbeach95]

I saw this article in RD. It is from Exercise Stalwart Guardian 2005. They published the story a year and a half after it happened.

The first picture appears to be from 31 LIB's ill-fated attack on 1 RCR's trenches.

 

[Synthos]

is that sand caked on the front of the scope?

 

[jbeach95]

is that sand caked on the front of the scope?

Yeah, there was sand everywhere. And I do mean everywhere.  :'(

It played havoc with the C9s. This was during that period when the ammo boxes wouldn't stay on the guns (http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/40224.0.html). The ammo ended up getting quite dirty and caused many stoppages.