You know you are past your expiriy date...

[Edward Campbell]

A very minor point: the plural of sergeant major is sergeants major.

Plus: it was the "caps, winter, peaked," AKA "caps, winter ridiculous."

 

[George Wallace]

Which brings to mind: Boots, Rubber, Clumsy.

 

[Shamrock]

I'm surprised at some of the things missing from this list:

Olive Drab...
Webbing...
Mk 3 Combat Boots (no exceptions!)...
New Coyotes...
New Olive Drab rain gear...
New Gor Tex...

 

[George Wallace]

I'm surprised at some of the things missing from this list:

Olive Drab...
Webbing...
Mk 3 Combat Boots (no exceptions!)...
New Coyotes...
New Olive Drab rain gear...
New Gor Tex...

Why did Spray Silicone just come to mind?

 

[Edward Campbell]

I'm surprised at some of the things missing from this list:

Olive Drab...
Webbing...
Mk 3 Combat Boots (no exceptions!)... New
New Coyotes... Newer
New Olive Drab rain gear... You had rain gear?
New Gor Tex... Newest

 

[SeanNewman]

- You remember that there was once a house at Grid 123 456 in Gagetown Training Area.

It's the Nerepis Biv Site now.

 

[NL_engineer]

Or "in 1974 when I was a young Sgt in Germany" - the guy that said that is still kicking around :


Edited cause I keep typing the wrong words  :

 

[George Wallace]

Or "in 1974 when I was a young Sgt in Germany" - the guy I hired that from is still kicking around :

You hired him?  How did he work out?    ;D

 

[Shamrock]

And to make this more inclusive to Mr. Campbell:

New fangled internal combustion engine...

 

[dapaterson]

I'm surprised at some of the things missing from this list:

Olive Drab...
Webbing...
Mk 3 Combat Boots (no exceptions!)...
New Coyotes...
New Olive Drab rain gear...
New Gor Tex...

The new rifle

The new jeep (oh, sorry, it's called the Iltis)

 

[George Wallace]

It's the Nerepis Biv Site now.

I should have followed up that house at Gr 123 456 with:

You remember there being houses and villages in the Gagetown Training Area
You drove into a basement in the Gagetown Training Area


Then...

You remember when there were six trees in all of CFB Suffield (Some silly Brit went and drove over one.)

 

[Occam]

CFARS phone patches (Hi Honey, over)
Black Tower/Moody Blue and bad movies in the main cafeteria during superallnighters
Don's Lighthouse, The Black Angus, and dog kebabs at Papa Joe's

 

[George Wallace]

Tank Trains -  Oh yeah!  Those were fun.

 

[Edward Campbell]

The Black Angus ... oh gawd!

 

[George Wallace]

When Gate Guards were real Guards, not monuments.

When Centurions were tanks and not monuments.

When "Mexican Overdrive" was not a good thing.

When RCD Hill had a T-Junction at the bottom.

 

[dapaterson]

Wing night at the Jolly Miller

Wet messes in the field during exercises

 

[medicineman]

When you refer to the Jump Ruck as "The Ruck", because when you joined, everyone got that model.
Your version of the "old" webbing consisted of a Y strap, a grenade pouch (for socks, naturally), a mess tin carrier (mess tins?) and a water bottle carrier.

I still have my '56 pattern mag pouches, as it was '64 'Y' yolk issued but we got those for our SMG mags where I was...weren't the mess tins/carrier used to house your Rain Gear, Paper, water absorbant?

MM

 

[Occam]

The Black Angus ... oh gawd!

I was pretty sure it was going to strike a chord with someone, but I didn't imagine it would be you!  ;D

 

[Edward Campbell]

I was pretty sure it was going to strike a chord with someone, but I didn't imagine it would be you!  ;D

Just me and Hemp-rope Harold ... Staff College nineteen seventy something ...

 

[Occam]

Just me and Hemp-rope Harold ... Staff College nineteen seventy something ...

Oh my...that's a name I haven't heard in a while.  If only the Maple Leaf had such....ummmm....colourful writing!