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kratz said:This thread has not enjoyed it's daily balance of beards. ;D
How's that?
kratz said:This thread has not enjoyed it's daily balance of beards. ;D
recceguy said:How's that?
Haggis said:- Pay everyone in cash again;
Towards_the_gap said:Via a parade where everyone lines up, alphabetically, and marches up to a desk at which sits an officer and a wad of cash, assisted by a clerk...salutes, shouts out number, rank, name and thereafter receives their pay in odd mixes of $10 bills, $20 bills, $1 bills and handfuls of nickels and dimes. People with names like Adams/Brown are already in the pub as the Williams/Young/Zinklewitzs are still receiving their pay.
Thucydides said:Everyone is thinking far too small. The first organized military forces on Canadian soil were recorded in the 1100's, and we should use that as our starting point:
Inquisitor said:As an add on - I may get called on this since I have no evidence.
The weirdest picture I think I ever saw as a Colour Party from the Canadian Airbourne Regiment, would have been late 80's.
The Colour Sergeant closet to the camera, appear to have something affixed to the tip of his bayonet. Aluminum sheath is probably the correct term"
If true, it seemed bizarre.
Inquisitor said:Your point has some merit.
Looking back I think future military historian will agree that a key sign of our troubles was when the brass decided that the NCM could no longer be trusted to fix a bayonet.
Seriously, if you can't trust an NCM to fix a bayonet properly, without cutting their fingers, or dropping it on the ground, then what's the point???? literally.
I was going to use another funny comment, but seriously what happened to "Fix/Unfix"???
Inquisitor said:Your point has some merit.
I suggest my idea has more technical merit.
Looking back I think future military historian will agree that a key sign of our troubles was when the brass decided that the NCM could no longer be trusted to fix a bayonet.
Seriously, if you can't trust an NCM to fix a bayonet properly, without cutting their fingers, or dropping it on the ground, then what's the point???? literally.
Actually, what may have really messed up higher's minds was the idea the idea of "Unfix" as in "Unfix Bayonets" How on earth do you unfix something?
Some may accuse me of being off topic again. However I suggest that this is an excellent thread to reinstate the concept of what has been a key part of military heritage since the Ancient Egyptians began to march in step.
It is most appropriate in a military as it moves back into garrison, and deals reduced budgets.
What is this mystic cureall. Drill.
I was going to use another funny comment, but seriously what happened to "Fix/Unfix"???
Inquisitor said:Actually, what may have really messed up higher's minds was the idea the idea of "Unfix" as in "Unfix Bayonets" How on earth do you unfix something?