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I listen to CBC Radio a lot (where else are ya gonna get Jazz, Classical and Juergen Gothe) in the car and at work. So it's inevitable that I catch the occassional current events or public affairs programming. It seems the people there all know how to criticize, but no-one ever makes the effort to go beyond that.

Any idiot, including myself, can criticize. That doesn't take talent or effort. But to think, "If this is what's wrong, then how do we make it better", takes brains. To go beyond that and actually involve yourself,... to participate in creating a positive change,... that's where you find-out who's got guts and who is just a critic.

   

1987-1991 US Army. Lost some good friends, made some good ones also. Life goes on and i'm proud of what I did in service to my country.

   

12 Jun 69 - 16 Dec 96. I started my 11 week basic training in Cornwallis, NS with the land element. Sunny Borden was the next stop in the memorable journey completing the Combat Arms Training. Meaford ranges was where we qualified on the Armoured Personnel Carriers and on completion of the 3 week Driving Training Track course, we were packing our bags and bused to CFB Petawawa, where this would be my home for the next 3 years.

I completed the 2 Cdn Guards Depot, trooping the colours on Parliament Hill for two summers before the Regiment disbanded and became 3 RCR! All this fine paid training as a Clerk Admin 831!

My first overseas posting was to Lahr, Germany in Jan '74 with 4 Svc Bn as a single man. I returned to Canada in Oct '78, engaged to a beautiful girl (blonde) that I met in Germany, while changing the tire on my car. She was also in the service and a Medic 711, who happened to be visiting with my roommate at the time I was changing the tire on my car. That's how we first met...and 29 years later - we've been happily married for 26 years!

Postings in Canada included: CFB Edmonton; CFS Alert; HMCS Iroquois, Halifax, NS; (my first ship), CFB Shilo, MB; 2 PPCLI, Esquimalt, BC; HMCS Restigouche; HMCS Athabaskan, HMCS Huron (final ship - my retirement).

UN Postings included: Golan Heights, Israel; Canadian Embassy, Seoul, South Korea (Assistant Defence Attache - 3 year accompanied tour with my wife and 2 boys); UNPROFOR (Op Harmony) Daruvar, Crotia (Sep 92 -
Apr 93).

I retired in Dec '96 as a PO1, after serving on HMCS Huron as their Chief Clerk!

Lost many good comrades over the years while at the same time made some really good close friends that we still keep in very good contact with today in our emails! I don't miss the every day routine with the land elements, especially the morning PT but I really miss the travel and enjoyed the tours onboard the ship's.
The memories will always be in the back of my mind forever.

Lest we Forget!

   

I will join as soon as I can. After I'm done college I'm off to the military. If I can heal in time I might join the reserves this summer. My only problem is trying to choose a job. For the army I'm thinking about doing infantry, armour, Sig Ops, and some more that I can't think of right now. For the navy I want to be a BOSN and then go into boarding parties.

   

That damned hill from the galley back up toward the 9 Platoon H-hut. Up the hill, down the hill, up, down ad-nuasium until the PERIs felt you were in the right frame of mind to go for a juant down in the beach sand. I enjoyed tossing that misserible sob in the pool week 8 after the last PT class

   

If I can get off my ass and actually try to get into shape I will. I want to go to RMC, then head off and hopefully be deployed to afghanistan if it is still going on (yes I want to be deployed). Work my way up the ranks so I can actually make a full career out of this.

   

2 years in!

At least 18 to go, I am hoping to be deployed sooner rather than later to Afghanistan hopefully Roto 6 but probably not, but here is to wishing.

   

Not really as many run-in's as you'd think. When CFOC's was runnning in Chilliwack, the staff kept those candidates on a very short string. You'd get the occasional run in downtown, but the consequences were pretty stiff for a prospective officer to be brawling with the troops. I can't see it being any different now. I can't see any of the NCM's allowing the candidate to possess an ego. It's not on the kit list or part of the layout, so wouldn't that then make it verboten until Ph IV grad?

   

I don't want to serve the military in any form.

I can't anyway, considering that I'm hearing impaired.

   

I am unable to say I served because the 3 years I served was as a civilian although I was happy to help . My father was Military Police (not in Canada) discouraged joining for ....well lets just say WW2 reasons .

   

I wouldn't mind joining the air force flying our fighter jets......It's all about the speed baby...

   

I was in the 26th Svc Bn in North Bay in 1977. At the time we were prepared to go into Quebec and put down a revolution if it became neccessary. I would call that serving my country.

I would not call going to Iraq or Afghanistan and slaughtering civilians because of George Bush's whims serving my country.

Serving one's country is more than putting on a uniform and following orders. Serving ones country is doing what is right to make your country better. For example; who were best serving their country, the officers who tried to kill Hitler or the ones that prevented them?

Chew it over.

   

Wish I had my shit together at a younger age, I would have joined up. Now at 43 I am too old and out of shape, yet I have an almost consuming passion for all things military. I have a nephew who wants to join up and pursue a career as a military cop. Can't wait, he needs a good asskicking that only the military can provide.

   

Exactly how many "innocent' civilians have us Canadians killed in Afghanistan Fig? I'll give you the answer - 0! Anybody that we have killed over there were armed, and deserved what they got, end of story!

   

one of those in bedded reporters. Some people can't think past the ends of their noses. Every Canadian that we send over frees up another Yank to wreak mayhem. Canadians guarding the football games in the US free up Yanks to commit mayhem. Etc.

   

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