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Glad to see the boys taking it to the TB. Even harder to do with the ANA especialy when it is all new.  Good on them.

I used not only the sleeping bag up north in the belly button for our PTL's but also the reversible tan/green jacket and pants.  They compresses fully, when it rained on us one miserable night (Feb) the jacket and pants stayed warm.  Weight is the major issue in the hills.  Tabbing all day then...

Just a generalization on my part. 

I am liking the way this topic is going and evolving.  I will deveate away from this topic abit but it hammers home some issues.  GW I agree with what you are saying about drills in the state they are in now.  I will also put my neck right out on the line.  Yes we have to be instructed at the...

Stand down Kiwi I know where that one is going.

As for fighting an IFV, neither the armour nor the infantry have the depth of experience (crew commanding a tank and crew commanding an IFV are different skill sets: even crew commanding Coyote and LAV III are different).  Still, the Canadian Infantry has been crew commading APCs for quite some...

I don't believe there is any option with this for a few reasons.  Firstly, the LAV III intimidation is first and formost.  With the 25 (Distance caliber and variety of ammo), there is no better option.  SA is a big issue but for those that have had a read of the paper kiwi is talking about...

From personal experience I agree with alot of the above with a few things to add.  My personal experience was that I went through 3 different rigs over there.  I had to start, the Brit style chest rig.  I also bought a leg rig.  For the first week in KAF it was OK but when we went outside the...

I have a suggestion on this.  Not knowing if you have or not but request to go on a tour to Afghanistan.  I saw how much the mech's worked to keep our LAV's in the dirt.  I was one of those before the tour who after 16yrs didn't realize how important some non infantry trades are.  The mech's...

This is an issue to every professional soldier.  Anyone that is going over I would hope would believe in more is better.  Speaking of Hope, myself and BDS found ourselves in front of him at the beginning of our tour over a miss quote in the paper on kit.  He did not believe in the 10 mag...

Hello all.  Here is some more.  This is a long one.  And yes I was attacked by a 10ft STUFFED polar bear in Tromso.  I was really drunk on Mac beer. As a PL WO I was very protective of my PL (My crew).  I felt that this was not going to be a Bosnia tour and that allot of leadership was going to...

I was BDS PL WO for the tour.  We trained a little different for the tour than most.  Here is what I would go over with your guy's. Shooting- Shoot at unknown ranges without berms.  We shot allot on the bermless ATS rge in Ed.  This taught and forced the guy's to judge distance and to make...

I agree with a-majoor and also would still stress creativity.  We have spent so long working with less. Now that we have more it should be a no brainer.  However the attitude higher has to allow that, and allow the NCO's planning ranges along with he PL to be creative.  Saying "Think out side...

Yes and what is the 1st Bn doing in 07....  CTCC (Combat Team Commanders Crse).  Now I realize that this was on the books before we left but given what we learned over there I hope that within the scope of the CTCC that some "Outside the box" scenario's are used.  In saying that I also hope that...

Very well done on all AAR's and points to look at for later training.  Hopefully this will be noticed and as the CO said "It is a sect comd fight".  Let's hope that the dist list will be big and we can finally get away from "RANGISM"S and "WATCISM".  Along with that,  now that the door is open...