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Recent content by Rick Goebel

  1. Rick Goebel

    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    They were Bisons and the Calgary Highlanders had them. They lived in our compound with the rest of our unit vehicles.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    No. We had previously had 4 Grizzlies. When they took those away, we got Bisons.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    The Calgary Highlanders had 7 of them for at least a few years.
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    Infantry Vehicles

    Actually, we regularly loaned 1VP all four of our Grizzlies. In return, they loaned us three platoons worth of Grizzlies for FTXs. It worked well.
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Actually, the Calgary Highlanders had eight of them. I don't clearly recall how long we had them, but we did have them.
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    Fallen Comrades (retired members)

    BGen (Retd) Ovas Wagg, former Commanding Officer of the Calgary Highlanders and former Commander South Alberta Militia District and Prairie Militia Area has passed away. More details are available Ovas Wagg Obituary.
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    The Great Gun Control Debate- 2.0

    Conspicuous by its absence is a line like “As a result of our actions of May 2020, gun crimes were reduced by x%”.
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    Controversial vehicle - upsets residents

    Maybe they should have called it a Peacekeeping Memorial since we actually used the Cougar on Peacekeeping in former Yugoslavia but indeed, as FJAG said, "the only war we ever had it for was the Cold War".
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    Fallen Comrades (retired members)

    Former Artillery and Infantry Officer, he passed away at age 83.  He commanded the HF of C and was Honourary Colonel of 7 (Toronto) Regiment RCA.  He was an keen supporter of the Order of Saint John and the Order of Saint Lazarus.  He was my CO when I was commissioned.  His obituary is at...
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    SCC and Trinity Western University

    (It shouldn't matter to citizens that a government could round up and put into internment camps other citizens or residents such as Japanese?  The CAF was better off when it hunted down and persecuted homosexuals?) Blackadder1916, there is an enormous difference between what Rocky Mountains...
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    Honours & Awards (merged)

    There are criminals and criminals.  The criminals given the Jubilee medals were criminals of conscience, with whom you might or might not agree.  This article, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mp-defends-giving-queen-s-jubilee-medal-to-jailed-woman-1.1198998, mentions a comparison with Martin...
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    Politics in 2017

    Sorry, I got carried away.  It is indeed 15 and 15.  My apologies.
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    Politics in 2017

    Anybody else notice that the new version of cabinet is no longer gender-balanced?  Because it's 2017?
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    The Great Gun Control Debate

    I think that the jury is important to, at least in Calgary in the 80s: "In April, druggist Steven Kesler sold his pharmacy in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Recently described by the Calgary Herald as "a legend in the area for nearly 20 years," Kesler had become nationally renowned in the wake of an...
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    Questions Regarding Becoming Female Officer

    There isn't only the question of how far away from the troops you are but also how close to higher you are. I spent most of my first 15 years in the reserves in a building that housed only the rifle company I was in.  This could be a bad thing since, when I was Company 2 I/C, I was also OIC...
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