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    Base closures?

    The Liberals won 4 seats in AB in the '93 election, the first time they'd won seats there since '68. All of them were in Edmonton...
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    Base closures?

    Pretty sure the decision to move 1RCR out of London came in the wake of the 1988 election when the Liberals re-took the area ridings from the Tories.
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    In olden times wasn't it brown shoes for officers and black parade boots for NCMs? In any event, unless they're going with a black Sam Browne for officers, surely they'd be going with brown shoes.
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    Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world - and it’s our own fault

    Didn't it take a while for Italy to agree to an exemption? I seem to recall that when we were in Lahr in the early 70s there were guys who couldn't deploy with their units to Italy for that reason.
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    Happy New Year 2024

    Happy New Year!
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    CMMA - replacing the CP140 Aurora

    No doubt they're already lining up the lawyers...
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    CMMA - replacing the CP140 Aurora

    Essentially a 1-1 replacement for the in-service Auroras?
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    CMMA - replacing the CP140 Aurora

    Link to the release: Canada purchasing up to 16 P-8A Poseidon Multi Mission Aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force - Canada.ca
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    CMMA - replacing the CP140 Aurora

    Just announced:
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    Canada's tanks

    I did say "reasonable," not "likely." I honestly can't see a scenario in which a Canadian government of any political stripe is willing to invest in any new/used tanks. What state were the Centurions in when PET had his come to Jesus moment with Chancellor Schmidt and bought the Leopards? And...
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    Canada's tanks

    At least post war peak in terms of brigade groups with tank regiments. I realize the post WWII peak was 5 brigades groups.
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    Canada's tanks

    300 would seem a reasonable number given I believe it's ball park what we had in the way of Centurions back when the peacetime army was at it's post war peak with 4 brigade groups, each with a tank regiment.
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    Sisu- Finnish WW2

    Also true of Swede's as my late Swedish father-in-law would tell me while looking at my feet...
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    Canadian Airborne Regt. Cdo's

    Lived in Lahr during the 3 Mech Commando era and while they were clearly a mechanized infantry battalion, they did where the maroon beret and CAR cap badge. Back in Ottawa in '83 and saw the RCR parade for their centennial and pretty sure 3 Commando was on parade as part of the regiment.
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    Masters Of The Air (Apple TV+)

    Can't argue with that.
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    Masters Of The Air (Apple TV+)

    Agreed. I've watched BofB almost annually but only ever watched The Pacific when it came out. Not that it wasn't good and gripping but it lacked the "band of brothers" quality that I think made the former so compelling, especially since so many of them were still alive and being interviewed, and...
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    Former Army HQ to be demolished, replaced with apartments

    Had an office there in the early 2000s. The parking garage emptied onto Slater and because of the transitway you had to immediately turn right on O'Connor, a turn that was otherwise illegal for traffic in the other lanes of Slater. At the end of the month it was routine for the OPS to set up on...
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    Kind of like the difference between these.
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    Dad's first posting in '52 was to 17 Regional Ordnance Depot, then in Vancouver but in the process of relocating to Edmonton. He and my Mum lived in a one room apartment with a Murphy bed. They shared a refrigerator on the landing.
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    My Dad once told me that when he went into the regular army in '52 he had mandatory payroll deductions, one for the mess and the other for the tailor to pay for his uniforms. He certainly got good value out of his mess kit since he was still wearing it when he retired in '87. Not sure how much...
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