George Wallace
Army.ca Dinosaur
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Boeselager training running from the gym, through Hugsweier, up Tit Hill and then back. Or running the hills from the Kasserne gym to Reichenbach and back.
George Wallace said:...Dirty Thursday.
Technoviking said:-The Soviet Army was your "OPFOR" in your Op Orders on FTX.
-RCD Hill was known as 8 CH Hill (complete with T-Junction at the bottom)
dapaterson said:The Fantasian Army.
And the ultimate work of fiction: Corps 86.
Old Sweat said:and your personal library included such classics as Canadian Army Manual of Training (CAMT) 1-8, The Infantry Brigade Group in Battle, Part 1, Tactics; CAMT 2-2, Drill, All Arms; CAMT 4-3-3, Artillery Training, Duties at RHQ and the Guns; and last, but not least, CAMT 7-45, Infantry Section Leading and Platoon Tactics. And then, there were the annual comments of the examining board that marked the Lieutenant to Captain and Captain to Major promotion exams. The board, I fear, lacked both a sense of humour and the human touch. But then, so did most of the upper echelons of the army in those days.
E.R. Campbell said:But the good part was that most of those little, thin, cheap, shirt pocket sized, unilingual pamphlets were both terse and chock-a-block full of useful, accurate information. Many of us used to rip them apart - they were "drop accountable," written off in issue - and keep just the bits (tables of data, mostly) that we had't memorized or, as in the case of orders for a demolition guard commander, were so important that simple memorization wasn't sufficient - and stapled them back together into a crap-house reader which could be consulted when confronted with such vexing questions as how many steel pickets per 100 yards of fencing.
Edit: I made a typo in "chock" which resulted in just four letters and a word that the filter made into **** :-[
The typo that pulped 7,000 books
Australian publisher destroys cookbook for recipe that called for ‘freshly ground black people
An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with “salt and freshly ground black people.”
Penguin Group Australia's head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a “silly mistake” ...