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When talking about arctic sovereignty I don't think it's really necessary to be able to monitor ALL of the Arctic Ocean. I think Harper's proposal is a good one because what we do need is to demonstrate very clearly that those are our waters, and I have to admit that it seems to me that all the...

Yeah, well it should have been more like "FIRST!!", but I guess Iraq was a bigger threat.  ::)

I'd like to see Artillery, Engineers, EME and log units get midnight blue berets back, instead of rifle green, which is the colour of light infantry. Interesting that the black beret is the choice of all armoured regts in Canada as it comes from the Royal Tank Regt of the British Army, which...

Sorry, that was the Mike Harris Conservatives. And lest we forget, the federal Conservatives got rid of the Chinook, Twin Huey and Kiowa helicopters and replaced them all with the Griffon (anyone remember MND Marcel Masse?).

I'm sad to see the name of the Royal Green Jackets not being kept.

Yes the Liberals are sick-making in many ways, but we've got to admit, this aircraft plan was dead a couple of days ago and yet Bill Graham still salvaged the Herc part and is making it happen, come hell or high water. You've really got to give this guy credit, and as torn as many of us are...

Normally, the Conservatives should be able to count on a lot of support around here, but this O'Connor just never stops alienating the military voters with his knee-jerk opposition to anything good the government might actually do re defence. Obviously that party doesn't read Army.ca!

From the Globe And Mail 20/11/2005 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051120.wmilitary1119/BNStory/National/ All of a sudden the Hercs have turned into Galaxys.  ???

This is from the National Post today, 8/11/2005 :D Sixty years after the last Canadian won the Victoria Cross, the highest award for bravery in the British Commonwealth, the government is preparing to produce the first prototype of Canada's version of the coveted decoration. Canada has had...

The problem with that approach is that "we", as you like to say, also sent the Scots out of Scotland, viz.the highland clearances.

What I don't understand is why you don't just go and parade with the unit you are supposed to be transferred to. They would then have the ASC at the armoury chase after your transfer.

You know you're old when all the older women you used to fantasize about are young enough to be your daughter.  :'(

I think that the government have been moving in the right direction on defence of late. O'Connor appears to be attacking everything they do on defence "from the left", so to speak (note also his opposition to doing away with the very political and endless procurement process). It makes one...

Probably about 12 years from now ;)

But if he just automatically attacks anything the government does on defence, even when it's actually good (like buying new Hercs, Chinooks, Antonovs, etc, without the usual procurement process) isn't he saying that his party doesn't support that and would support the 'traditional" process just...

So all parties are really the same when you come right down to it.

In the Mo you get a basic recruit scale of issue from clothing stores but winter kit like white cam, arctic mitts, snowshoes, etc. will come from your unit Q.

No, he always says stuff like that. Seriously though,here in Edmonton, people are very used to seeing the army. Last spring, Patricias did FIBUA training in the north end of the city, off the base. I remember coming back from the plant nursery and there was a LAV3 blocking off 66th Street with...

What's up with Gordon O'Connor? Lately we've heard him complaining about DND wanted to buy new aircraft without the usual endless tendering process, and now he's complaining about this.