Recent content by Marti

From what I've found: John Crettenden was a senator who offered up a resolution that would preserve the Union through compromise, while both his sons ended up as generals on opposite sides of the war. see: http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/critten.html

Got this e-mailed to me, didn't look like anyone had posted it yet. It's his first press conference, he gives a detailed account of what happened and how he was treated. http://sympaticomsn.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060319/franklin_speaks_060323#

Maybe not the best for your particular querry, but this is a pretty cool site: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/archivianet/0201_e.html Not much for personnel files from WWI, but the ones from the Boer War are more extensive. Lots of other interesting documents available for viewing, like war...

I go up to the mess quite a bit, and I think it's safe to say things have. First off, the place looks a lot better, the renovations were completed and the mess is now painted in the colours of the 3 units that use it. New lighting's also been put in, though the furniture's still the same.The new...

Good to hear you're interested in joining, we could use another NO. If you're concerned about getting your training done this summer, you should consider starting your recruiting process soon. I'm not sure how things have been lately but a couple of years ago it was taking a few months to get...

As far as I know, the badges that are supposed to be replacing the bde patch and the Land Force Command pin aren't available yet. My unit stopped wearing the bde patch and the Land Force Command pin about a year ago, and from what I remember seeing in Borden over the summer that seems to be the...

"Lately, Ottawa has said they will not allow anyone on a BE to release until their contracts are completed." Seen. Thanks for sorting that out. "There are other options such as finacially commiting the person to their contract, miss minimum requirements and you would be required to pay your...

This issue was discussed with some visiting CFMG brass during Ex Active Edge last summer as way to justify the cost of putting reservists on a reg force QL5. The answer that came back was that there was no legal means of enforcing such a contract. The example was given of reg force signal...

I believe you are mistaken. We have no one qualified PHTLS in the unit at this time. Right, they were from 11 Fd Amb. My mistake.

If the cost of sending a new Pte on his/her 3s is more than it would cost to send a person on their PCP then what is the detriment of sending them on the PCP? For one thing, there is no nation-wide continuity in EMT-B level courses. What would've been nice is that instead of AMFR2, they would...

I'm a bit confused by all this talk about PHTLS. First off, my unit  (15 Fd Amb) ran a PHTLS course just under a year ago. 2 mbrs from 12 Fd Amb flew out to take the course with us. Talking to the French teams at the EFMC in Borden this summer, their units had also made the switch. Why were some...

I flipped back through the book to make sure I remembered things correctly, and you're right about "mutual surveillance" being one of the force that made men in a phalanx lower their spears and soldiers in ranks keep loading their muskets. But the main idea of that chapter is the group anonimity...

I had rather mixed feelings on the book. He made some good points when he talked about death and killing in relation to pop culture and ways in which soldiers' training is designed to overcome the aversion from killing, but I found his arguments about the reluctance to kill a bit too forced...

I saw this when it aired a few months ago, The first half hour shows how enthusiastic two of the resruits are when they sign up. The one who reffers to himself as a mushroom was a stock broker on wall street and very keen on joining after Sep 11. A second was a hispanic guy from Brooklyn, also...

Thanks qy rang cdt, I think I remember him saying he wasn‘t sure if he‘d come back to be CSM.