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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

You can't describe the moral lift,
when in the fight your spirits weary
hears above the hostile fire,
Your own artillery.
Shells score the air like wavy hair
from a forward battery.
As regimental cannon crack
While from positions further back,
in bitter sweet song overhead
crashing discordantly
Division's pounding joins the attack;
Mother like she belches shell;
Glorious it flies, and well,
As, with a hissing screaming squall,
A roaring furnace, giving all,
she sears a path for the infantry....

- Aleksandr Tvardovskiy, from the poem "Vasily Tyorkin" 1943.

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Military Word Of The Day

MSE (Navy)

Marine Systems Engineer: Personnel on board RegF Naval vessels of the MAR ENG(M/T/A), MAR EL/ETech, HULL and FIRE FIGHTER trades. Approx 51 billets on HAL class.

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Today in Military History

February 1

1900:

Le Regiment du Saguenay: Dieu at Patrie (God and Cointry)

1910:

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada: Ullamh (Ready)

1915:

VC won by Sgt Michael O'Leary, 1st Battalion, The Irish Guards (British Army), Cuinchy, France

1920:

The Dominion Police & NW Mounted Police amalgamated into RCMP

1944:

The Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers is authorized

1952:

Vincent Massey appointed first Canadian born Governor-General of Canada

1968:

Effective Date - Act of Parliament for Unification of the Canadian Armed Forces

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