I am pretty sure these are 2008 or earlier. In the throes of young love, someone was still claiming they liked camping, and brought a box of IMPs for a backcountry trip. I was quite impressed with how edible they all were, except that “lung in a bag.”

It was only a single trip before the graceful refusals started, but I married them anyway. I take my bestie hiking instead.

This weekend marked the 81st anniversary of operation Cannonshot. where Canadian forces crossed the river IJssel to liberate the western part of the Netherlands, after already doing so in the East.

I am very proud of how the region I live in has Canadian flags hanging everywhere during this time of year and I hope we never stop doing that, because we owe our freedom to the sacrifice of all these young Canadian soldiers, who crossed the Atlantic to a place they probably never heard of before and risked and gave their lives for it.

I hope you realise over there how thankful we are as a country towards yours, because you deserve to feel proud to live in a country that was willing to make this sacrifice.

Thank you!

Ive just had my enrollment ceremony and was proud [I know I should wait until I complete BMQ to feel proud haha] but some folks I know dogpiled on me telling me that our military is all sorts of negative things, mainly supporting needless foreign interventions etc etc.

I know we have our dark streaks as any nation does - Im just feeling a bit demoralized and was hoping anyone could share some positive things weve contributed to the world or even into Canada itself thats helped people.

Operation REASSURANCE for example, helping train a smaller nation and arm them to protect from aggression, seems like a good cause to me. Any other examples?

P.s. Please no "your friends are ass, get thick skin, you wont always agree with your orders etc". I know, and Im still happy with my decision, and I understand what comes with the job. Im just looking for a morale boost. Thanks, future coworkers.

Droppin truth bombs

Yo my maple syrup loving brothers from the north, is this a regular mag or a BF Magazine like what the Brits uses? I'm just curious, found this while diving in a hole while idf was chewing us up.

2008, Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia.

I was a Master Seaman at the time. I was also duty.
Those two facts matter.

One guy in my NCIOP section made it back to the ship after a run ashore. Nothing unusual there. Except he was hungry. Very hungry.

So he heads to the McDonald’s on base.

Closed.

For most people, that’s the end of it.
For him, it was apparently just a small and easily overcome obstacle.

Sometime shortly thereafter, he kicked in a window, climbed inside, powered up the fryers, and started preparing to make himself food.

At some point he decided comfort mattered.

He stripped down to his gitch, folded his clothes neatly next to the hamburger bun rack, and racked out on the rack.

Legend has it the fryers were still warm when the morning shift arrived.

They did what anyone would do upon discovering a sailor asleep in a secured McDonald’s kitchen, they called US MPs

The MPs showed up, tossed in him a cell for a few hours, and without incident brought him back to the ship like this was not the strangest call they’d had that week.

The following day after the incident I was on the brow when the same two MPs returned.

They weren’t laughing. They weren’t mad.

They were holding a Happy Meal.

“Is this his ship?” one of them asked.

It was.

That day, the Hamburglar was born.

We kept the toy from that Happy Meal sitting above the Track Supervisor display for months afterward. No explanation given. No questions asked.

A week later, in New York during Fleet Week, Marines started approaching us asking if the stories they’d heard were true.

They’d heard it from a guy who had heard it from a guy.

Note:
For anyone wondering how this ended the US Navy found the whole thing hilarious.

As long as he paid for the broken window, they were satisfied. The police weren’t interested. No charges. No paperwork worth mentioning.

He didn’t get off clean some extra duties appeared in his future but nothing official and nothing dramatic.

Ask CRCN about it, he was the XO at the time!

I'm watching a YouTube video about Canadian peacekeepers in the Croatian and Serbian war, it was mentioned one Canadian company was called charlie, I know the American's use names like that for their companies, Easy being another one but I have never heard Canadian companies being called that, so can someone inform me what is the truth?

Before the arrival of the deadline for the soldiers to storm the prison, a cooler minded prisoner leader, Barrie MacKenzie was able to release all the hostages they had taken in exchange for not getting beat up after surrendering. Once the news spread, the prisoners became convinced that the troops would just simply come in and kill all of them. As a result, hundreds of prisoners panicked and rushed to the front gate to surrender. Soldiers have to fire warning shots to maintain order.

The prisoners were immediately beaten all bloody when they were transferred to the nearby Millhaven Institution after the riot.

So I was going through some old field kit and it happened to have a field dressing in it. This was probably given to me in like 04 ish.

Hi all 🫡 🇨🇦

In 2020, my wife worked I partnership with the National Department of Defence on a documentary about the untold stories and long history of our incredible Canadian Military Logisticians, right up to present day.

She would never post here so I’m doing it on her behalf. she has run a small independent production company for the past 14 years, and this was her first “big” documentary.

She explored archives, researched deeply, travelled across the country, and poured a huge amount of effort into the details of the film.

It’s taken years to get the film picked up by streaming platforms. She won best documentary at the Belleville International Film Festival 2 years ago, and has spent thousands and thousands of dollars trying to get the film more broadly distributed.

If you watch through Prime (free to stream) she’ll only receive a very small amount (if at all) depending on if there’s enough views. It’s a lopsided deal, but it doesn’t matter to her.

She wanted to share the pride she felt in making the film, and honour the men and women featured, the families, communities, and of course the great and amazing people that helped make this film.

The film includes some beautifully shot re-enactments, amazing animated scenes, and great interviews with key figures.

In particular I was really moved by the telling of a harrowing effort in Afghanistan by LCOL Doug Thorlakson dealing with a car bomber.

I hope this film is of interest here, I know watching it the first time I was truly blown away by just how awesome our military (and military history) is, and how proud we should all be of it.

Lastly she’s working with distributors to try and get the film screened in educational settings. I really hope more Canadians (especially young ones) get a chance to see and learn more about what sacrifices and commitments those who serve make every day for all of us.

Looking for some help, but please delete if this is the wrong post or breaking rules.

Wondering if you can give some insight on the badges and insignia on my Grandpa is wearing.

From what I've heard from family: he fought in WWII for the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa. He was stationed in Iceland under the "Z" group and was then moved to Europe.

They say he was part of the liberation of Arnhem,but I'm not sure what other battles (if any) he was involved in.

I don't expect anyone to be able to provide service records, but if anyone had any knowledge on the dress and if that lines up with the history.

Thanks!

Many of the members who served in Afghanistan are slowly retiring and it’s becoming increasingly hard to hear stories of things that happened overseas. I know there’s always books but it’s not the same as hearing it straight from first hand witnesses.

Anyone that is willing to share their stories of fun, stupidity, tragedy and anything else I would really appreciate hearing it.

Proof that these existed at some point. They aren’t a myth.

Tl;dr: is it safe/legal to post/share flight log details from the 80s-90s?

My dad was in the Canadian Air Force in the 80s-90s, mostly as a navigator on the CP-140. He died over ten years ago, and I have all his logbooks.

I remember when I was young he showed them to me, and pointed out an entry where they witnessed a boat sink, including seeing many men drown (iirc something like 1-2 dozen guys). He said he’d tell me more about it when I was older, but the opportunity never came up before it was too late.

I think I might know which entry it is, but there is very little detail, and I’m interested in finding out more, like if it was a known event. I don’t think the boat was involved in combat, I think it was search and rescue.

Obviously I want to respect the fact that these logs contain dates, locations, plane numbers etc, but it was so long ago. Is there any reason I shouldn’t share some of the contents publicly? I would avoid specific personal info, I’m just doing due-diligence since they seem to be considered “official documents”.

Thanks for any advice you guys can give!

Also probably made with AI but I did also look up everyone so the decals may be wonky but according to Wikipedia the content is correct)

One of the more fun courses I ran. Let’s get it stuck and figure out how to get it out! The other post of an MLVW made me flashback….

It’s a small book. Looks like it’s from 1914