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I agree with everyone who, using their own brand of flare, stated that once a recruit arrives at CFLRS, they are fully responsible to pass the course on their own. Of course that's the case, and nobody would argue otherwise, though some here seem to think that was the focus. The facts here are...

Directed at CDN Aviator. No, SIR, you DID loose your temper. Without being qualified to speak to the facts, by the way. I was going to reply that it isn't my female genitalia that needed to be checked for sand, but you clarified that for us. Congratulations for being one of the 25% who helped...

DIRECTED AT SERVING-MEMBER HUSBANDS. Please, if your wife is fully briefed as to the CURRENT BMQ standards and you have done both your homework and due diligence to insure your wife will have the best chances of passing her course, this is NOT directed at you. Thanks to roughly 25% who used...

Hi Chris, this is Lorne Warawa. And say Hi to Paul for me. I thought he got out in Sudbury or something? Anyway, I remember running into Mac about 6 years ago or so (can’t be even a bit precise on the year) in Pet as a vehicle tec or some such similar job. I’ll go on the DIN and see if his name...

I too agreed that it was an interesting read. The author got a lot of things right, for example the fact the Taliban was created by the Pakistanis, principally their National Intelligence, in order to act as spoiler against the warlord factions that were jockeying for post-soviet control of...

Were any weapon’s found that would be considered surplus to that used to protect diplomats in a very hostile situation? For an example of what I mean, the weapons highly likely to be found in the US embassy in Ottawa are not surplus to that embassy, or unexpected. You can’t say the Delegation...

Re: HDE’s commentary. I didn’t say that I thought it was “positive” that our military had been on the rust-out, and I don’t think that at any time Canadians saw it as “positive”. I don’t think that has much to do with the topic, really. Perhaps we had rust-out because Canadians were wishing for...

Hummm….seems just a month or so ago, the CBC could do no right. I am so glad to have the many CBC detractors on thread http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/53353.0.html  coming onside and completely reversing themselves. It takes big men to do that and you deserve the credit. Not that I wanna...

Guys, this isn’t a debate on the Liberal Bias at the CBC. The whole premises of slagging the CBC interactive Map was that it and the CBC coverage of the War was bias. So far slagging environment shows and Tommy Douglas movies (excuse me if I’m wrong but what does politics in Weyburn Saskatchewan...

Sorry to be delinquent in replying to the thread. As I said, I didn't see any examples of bias CBC reporting, because frankly there isn't any to post. Nice work out there. As for pro-Conservative Values/military, obviously you've never heard on CBC Radio or watched the commentary of Rex...

Saying that the CBC only concentrates on our casualties is quite inaccurate, there Exsemjingo. But if the map can be criticized for doing that, surely that is small potatoes? There should be more info as to what exactly we’ve been able to accomplish in the way of CIMIC programs, but hasn’t that...

Quite the CBC Bash we have going here. Tell me, Colin P and Kelo-302, aside from your opinions unsubstantiated by any facts, what exactly is wrong with the way the CBC has laid out where our troops have fallen? And my second question would be do you have the same opinion of the maps used by...

If this article isn’t a casus belli case against the War in Iraq, I don’t know what is. It’s also a demand for NATO nations to develop a real strategy for dealing with the Moslem world. The article is right that suicidal warfare was never encountered by the Russians. Yet it has become the most...

Apparently now having checked this thread after leaving it alone for a bit, I have made the personal acquaintance of one OS Jesso! Because of the memorial Services in Pet I’m missing the next Inspection but I’m going to be sure to check on our chain smoker to insure proper use of the Mouthwash...

I just got back from the Memorial Services in Pet that most of you probably had a chance to catch a part of on TV. It was incredibly well done in my opinion and a real credit to the hard work of the Rear Parties involved. It was very Royal-centric in nature, as befitting the men themselves but a...

You misquote me when you imply I didn’t want to make political statements…I didn’t want the thread turning to political sparing. I have no problem stating political points that are relevant, any time, any place. Sorry if the image of George Bush holding a rather small, un-ripened banana offends...

I don’t want to have this jump into a political discussion when it rightly should stay at the tactical/on ground analysis level, but this well presented work signifies that Hezbollah is indeed more than a terrorist agency, if it can plan large scale battles and have air/land assets co-ordinated...

Ya, I probably do… But having read all that was on this thread, and seeing nothing but implied un-blinking support, children’s songs, pining for Newfoundland and slow news days blues…you get my point. I’m still finding my way around the site, so no doubt there will be some thoughtful points...

MarkOttawa, good to hear you have a voice and it is not perturbed by what has evidently cowed so many here: a political philosophy. Don’t know if I agree with AC much but you, he and I do ask the pertinent questions, as un-patriotic at that may be. NOTE to others: on the battlefield, politics is...

Good to hear you will go to Bagotville at the drop of a hat! Hope you speak French fluently. We need guys like you because so many others won’t go where their wife takes a $30K wage cut and their kids get sub-standard schools and no hope of post-secondary education. Where single guys get the...