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I remember that hill from when I did my Driver Wheel course, people on loving foot can go faster. One of the amusing things for me after that was after weeks of driving nothing but the LS and ML's, I had to remember to not stomp on the gas of my car and especially not on the brakes. I never did understand why the hell they made a vehicle that squeals when you touch the brakes, so much for being tactical at night when you're driving without lights. Nothing screams "Canadian Forces over here!" like an LSVW. Vadoc fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Jan 7, 2010 |
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HoboJ posted:I'm curious here. This fall I enter a broadcast engineering program at a local college. What jobs in the Canadian forces are related to this program? Using the online tool is rather painful. I'm not sure so here's a shot in the dark, maybe Communications?
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Feb 20, 2010 10:59
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Ugh..Meaford. How I LOATHED hearing that name when I get told where I'm going for a course, FTX (Up yours Petawawa Fire Index!), or for any reason whatsoever. The only saving grace is that everything there is in short walking distance and the food wasn't that bad. I wish I had been on the Drivers course the year before I did mine, they had so many people they were super relaxed. Mine was dubbed 'Airborne Driver Wheel' for the amount of PT they had us do. And why the hell did they send people who didn't even have a full drivers license on the course? They're expected to be taught how to drive LS and MLs in a couple months when they can't even be trusted to drive their own cars without supervision? Hmm..at least the weather was always usually nice when I was there. Guess the Weather Machine was down for maintenance, no waking up with snow on the ground and only summer kit on me.
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Apr 25, 2010 11:56
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MA-Horus posted:OH MY GOD gently caress yeah, it was Summer 2003 I think and shirt. One of the guys got a large Canadian flag tattoo on his left arm I think. Remember when they had us do all those different types of push ups? And the one where they misjudged the steepness/angle of this hill we were going to go down and they radiod "Don't follow us..", because it looked like they were about to fall on their side? They also cracked the diesel tank causing it to leak on that one I think. Which useless guy were you? I was one of the guys with a bad knee that couldn't run, the vibrations and jolts from the vehicles always made it really hard for me to walk afterwards for some reason. I don't remember anyone falling asleep behind the wheel though or instructors charged with reckless endangerment, but that could just be a faulty memory. Vadoc fucked around with this message at 02:43 on Apr 29, 2010 |
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Apr 29, 2010 02:28
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Congrats buddy. Did you put in any claims for health problems to squeeze out extra bucks? I did it for my knees, got a really nice cheque in the mail from VA.
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Heh, yeah. My father was a Lt. Col in the Reg force, at one time he dropped off some of my papers to the recruiting office at the unit for me while he was in uniform, not to mention that of course all the officers there know of him. We also had the son, and then later, daughter of a General. Talk about expectations from a family like that...
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Jul 11, 2010 08:13
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I knew a guy from my unit who took any chance he got to go to Gagetown for Class B's with Whiskey battery.
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Yeah, but it's not the first time they've flipped like that. A number of years ago an the LS pulling the CP jackknifed going down one of the hill roads, the ML behind it was at the very top and starting to go down when the driver saw it and tried to stop but the wheels lost traction and started sliding too until he decided it was better to put it into the snowbank than ram the other vehicle. Nobody got hurt but it flipped the gun. In this particular case that you're refering it was the Regiment I was in. I wasn't there, I had to pass on going on the exercise because of various stuff to deal with. The road was muddy where they were doing the turn and the gun fishtailed, yanking the ML off the road. Serious injuries as you mentioned, and one fatality. It still feels like a fist around my heart to think of it, and constantly think I should've been there for my friends, possibly even have prevented it since I normally drove that particular gun and tractor. It's kind of like not going on a trip you originally planed or arrived late for a flight, and then later learning that it crashed.
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MA-Horus posted:drat, dude. I heard about that incident too, that was Pet, right? With 30FD? Basically after that happened it came down the line that we shouldn't be doing any stupid angles trying to get to positions...but of course, in Meaford, that's just not going to happen. The one I was talking about happened about 4 years ago, I was doing Ammo/Salvage and I was in line behind 25C, I guess the driver swerved to avoid a pot-hole, went onto an embankment and tipped. Lucky there were no really bad injuries, just concussions and cuts. Yeah, 30FD in Pet. Man, I can't remember most of the ex's been on, or if I was in that ex too and just forgot. Kind of funny how we work with high explosives, but the danger is really just being in the back of the truck when we're on the move.
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Elgar posted:I guess they don't have it in their LAVs? But you can have a heater in them that heats rations and your drinking water. I think our trucks had those heaters too, there's a slot for them but they are never used because of something about bursting into flames..or something like that. Or so someone told me a while back about why we don't use them anymore.
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Apr 11, 2011 17:59
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MA-Horus posted:I will use this to describe Wainwright until the end of time. Please tell me that was the one from Pet or Sault St. Marie, or even 7TOR and not the Dirty 30.
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May 24, 2011 08:14
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I'm betting it definitely was 7TOR, it sounds like something they'd do.
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May 25, 2011 00:37
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That goes for any country.
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May 28, 2011 17:27
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Speaking of sandbags... Hey MA-Horus, remember the static cling sandbag protector from our Airborne Driver Wheel course?
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Jul 5, 2011 02:06
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Don't lean or sit on the gun either.
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I assumed he meant on sentry watching the rifles of everyone else when they're inside eating/doing whatever. Although yeah, they still shouldn't have had the ability to pick one up. Who's to say they wouldn't have immediately run away with it? I've lost count of how many people have asked me at Gun Salutes if we're going to be using actual ammunition at the event, or if we're shelling Quebec.
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Jul 13, 2011 14:54
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Yeah, especially after the carwash we used to go to closed down. 
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tuyop posted:I don't even wear the underwear. I have twenty of them still in their plastic. And I hate this year's combat shirts. They're slightly bigger, so I got some smalls that look like they're painted on me. Love it. Seriously? I wish I had bought a ton of them with my points before leaving. Best underwear ever.
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I did the CFSAC once, except I was on the support side in a Class B contract. best thing was that because it was in Ottawa, I got to go home every night and sleep there instead of the stinky humid tents that we had to assemble times infinity. At least this year the plumbing works and it won't have poo poo filled sitting in the blazing sun and high heat that was the year I was there. I had a freaking sweet job, I basically spent my days sitting on my rear end playing Axis & Allies, riding a bike to collect the score cards, and if we had a ton of them helped input them into the computer to print out and put on the board. I'm still loving pissed that when we all got the chance to fire the Brit guns our group couldn't because we had last minute scores to complete. They should've put us at the loving front of the line so we could have some fun instead of missing a once in a lifetime opportunity. Fuckers. 
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Jul 28, 2011 19:49
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MA-Horus posted:Hell yeah I'd be down for that. Don't forget that without them what are we supposed to tape to the nose of an arty shell when you've graduated to the Big Boy badge during the confirmation Ex, followed by gleefully firing it downrange?
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My Spirit Otter posted:I got the sarcasm, at least. I know that nobody in the CF does anything anything voluntarily Don't you just love getting VolunTold to do something at random when you're pretending to be busy for the exact purpose of not getting volunteered?
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Could be worse, many years ago when a couple of guys went way the gently caress up north on some arctic experience, someone from another unit apparently tried seal lard or whatever native food the people up there are super used to but heavily disagreed with his stomach. Apparently at one point he had to go so badly there was no way he'd make it to the shitter, he shouted to get everyone in the tent out and pooped into the lantern case. Which of course froze solid soon after. I think it might've also been the same guy that at the end of the ex broke/clogged the toilet of some poor RCMP detachment, where the other nearest bathroom is 800m down the road and unable to dig up the ground pipes until the ground thaws. Oh, and some officer that wanted to go out and have everyone do a PT run at some godforsaken temperature or weather until one of the Rangers assigned to them said he was an idiot, and that if he really wanted to go out he can. But they aren't going to go out and search for their frozen corpses until the weather cleared up. I think MA-Horus might've heard about this stuff, so if you recall more feel free to fill in what I missed.
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Hmm..I think I meant blubber instead of lard. But yeah, something like that was to him, but far worse.
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MA-Horus posted:In Pet you were reasonably close to Ottawa. And there were at least a FEW things to do in Pet itself. Don't forget going to Smuggler's and drinking until the strippers are hot.
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Dec 23, 2011 18:06
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And getting chits so that they can request Gucchi comfortable boots.
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And the guy said it would just buff right out.
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Jan 26, 2012 01:10
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I can't think of anyone who'd turn down free money.
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And there's the Reserves. Working one night a week, occasional weekends. The rest of the time in between that is all yours.
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Oh god..box lunches. I could NEVER eat any of the sandwiches, and always had to force myself if there really was no other choice..although preferably on the beef one. I'd just trade them away for extra stuff from other people instead. I'd rather eat the loving Scalloped Potatoes and Ham IMP, and I loving HATE that IMP.
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The vibrating side mirrors haunt me... okay, not really but I couldn't see poo poo because of how much they were shaking when not moving if I needed to backup..and because of that terribly placed bar that divide the door windows. Ps. Airborne Driver Wheel! (Only MA-Horus will get that one.)
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Cojac posted:
I remember snorting vodka or something up my nose one time after my driver wheel course.. I think MA-Horus was there too since he recalls the kind of course we had.. I think I still have that shirt somewhere in a forgotten drawer with the thermals, socks, and assorted green shirts.
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I think we ran 403 Miles but I could be wrong. You'd think they'd have PT'd the previous course to death instead since they're the ones that had so many extra people and not enough vehicles that it was a cool paid vacation for them. And yet, still not my worst experience at Meaford since I had to ride shotgun in an LS from Meaford to Petawawa with a broken heater blowing hot air into my crotch the entire way until I eventually shoved an empty Timmies cup into the hole. Well..that and carrying all my poo poo from Ottawa to Meaford and then back for the Driver Wheel course when I took the bus instead of a personal vehicle
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Found the shirt: Ironman ML/LS KM Driven: 561 KM Run: 563
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How long until those nails dig into your heels?
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Oct 17, 2013 23:56
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Could've been Shilo.
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I miss the good old Dirty 30. I wonder if I should drop in at the Jr's mess one Wednesday night when training is done, see who's still around. Hell, are you guys still at Dow's Lake, or were you finally moved elsewhere?
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acumen posted:Just gonna leave this here. It's gone now.
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Mar 6, 2014 17:32
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We almost had Barbados once too.
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Sixerfixer posted:Delayed response, but thank you. And actually I think I might have gotten than response from one of the junior officers. I've been there, number of years ago early when I had joined and doing a Class B over the summer, went there to put up the tents and poo poo like that for CIVSAC (I think? Shooting competition at Connaught). We didn't stay there long before getting booted out for one of the tents so that the shooting teams could have the rooms, probably for the best. Personally I only slept in the room once or twice, I just went home at the end of the day and came back in the morning. I think they condemn those barracks every few years, before opening up again. You're lucky though, that time was also back when there was a massive sewage problem so you couldn't use the toilets, they had blue rockets everywhere..hundreds of them baking in the blazing hot sun. I'm STILL pissed that when everyone else got to play around with some of the British weapons at the range on the last day, I and a few others had to tally the last batch of scores. They should've put us at the front of the line to squeeze some rounds off before going to do that.
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Dark Decade 2: The Sequel. Except The government still trying to push through billions of dollars worth of jets where they won't work properly, and still have no replacement for Seakings, and other aging military equipment long past their prime. Jets!
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