Picture of the day
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Marginally nicer than the summer 'camping experience' in the Gore Training area - hot, humid and poison oak....and living the dream
Still like tgat spent summer of 07 at the Fort fir my staff ofgicer course. Bought two fans running on full speed all night long.
Once you got that rack properly squared away with cardboard,etc. you only slept in it on the weekends to save time and distress with morning inspections. I remember the NCOs using yellow tape to mark where the blanket folds were supposed to be. Minor adjustments were possibel by moving the tape.
Once you got that rack properly squared away with cardboard,etc. you only slept in it on the weekends to save time and distress with morning inspections. I remember the NCOs using yellow tape to mark where the blanket folds were supposed to be. Minor adjustments were possibel by moving the tape.
Stuff like that, precluded me ever serving in the Military, though I did manage a few months in the reserves.
Grizz
Stuff like that, precluded me ever serving in the Military, though I did manage a few months in the reserves.
Ya, I heard the same thing so joined the Airforce instead when I found out they issued you a Holiday Inn guide and a credit card.
Ya, I heard the same thing so joined the Airforce instead when I found out they issued you a Holiday Inn guide and a credit card.
I enjoyed infantry tactics, but it was a little disconcerting when buddy grabbed the Bren to advance and ended up with nothing but the barrel.
Grizz
Old photo of my dad's rifle team I found folded up with his service papers. Not sure where the pic was taken, he enlisted at CFB Shilo, and served with RCEME 1952-1964, mostly in Calgary.
Great pic, thanks for sharing. Judging by the ribbons worn I would say a couple of the guys had been in action on different types of "ranges".
Bull sh!t! More about sheets sticking to you with perspiration.
Old photo of my dad's rifle team I found folded up with his service papers. Not sure where the pic was taken, he enlisted at CFB Shilo, and served with RCEME 1952-1964, mostly in Calgary.
All are wearing Bush uniforms, Bush caps , and 2 officers with forage caps and from what I can make out , puttees with ankle weights , when I joined in 1971 , I was issued Bush trousers , Jacket and cap,I’m not sure why I was kitted out with this uniform, as we never wore it , we all wore Combats for field and battle dress for parade , some very experienced soldiers with the No.4 rifles in this photo
Stuff like that, precluded me ever serving in the Military, though I did manage a few months in the reserves.
Grizz
I don't think that chicken $hit hurt me too much at all. I made sure that I never inflicted it on anybody else though.
That’s going to be an expensive repair!RAF CH-47 Chinook after striking a power line on Tuesday past.
Hopefully , everyone involved is OK , definitely a bad day .
The military nomenclature for the 'Bush Cap' was CSFOD - Cap, summer, field, olive drab.
Yeah, the good ol' days of weights, boots and puttees! In PPCLI Depot we wore our Bush Jackets starched and pressed. You had to force your fingers through the sleeves to put it on. However, in the heat of Wainwright, you were wet under arms and the waist by 10:00 am, but you sure looked sharp for the first few hours.
I don't think that chicken $hit hurt me too much at all. I made sure that I never inflicted it on anybody else though.
Those that pushed the 'chicken sh!t' were 'career planners' (aka as brown nosers'). Real soldiers were far too busy and it was beneath them.
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Could have been worse, I suppose:
Having the RSM go straight up your nose because "your plume was bent" would be a rare pleasure.
