Heck, and I thought you blokes wore bright red tail coats. I hear the Canadian army adopted percussion rifles a couple of years ago. :)
Ciao, graywolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 9:28 AM Subject: Re: MI6 use Pentax > Well, actually, the Canadian army went into Afghanistan without desert > camo, becuase we don't have any! All's we got is green stuff. Not many > deserts in Canada, I guess. Loads of forests, though. > > Not that that's an excuse. We like to think of ourselves as peacekeepers, > so we should be ready to go anywhere in the world for that purpose. I > suppose that any defense funds that the military can squeeze out of the > government should really go towards stopping our helicopters from > plummeting from the sky (as they have a propensity to do, since they're > about as old as I am!). > > Sigh.... > > -frank > > Peter Alling wrote: > > > At 01:35 PM 1/20/2002 +0100, you wrote: > > >Sunday, January 20, 2002, 8:50:19 AM, Brendan wrote: > > >B> Bet my 28mm vivitar Bond uses Auto 110's , the cia > > >B> would get what > > >B> ever cost the most. If you had to work for any spy > > >B> agency just make > > >B> sure it's not Canada's. Their so good at intellegence > > >B> gathering they > > >B> had our troops go to the desert Afganistan in Jungle > > >B> cammo, now > > >B> thats military intelegence for you. > > > > > >That's VERY shrewd! Nobody would expect troops to go to desert in > > >jungle camouflage , so the enemy would just think he's having > > >hallucinations. > > > > Actually it's that non-warrior ethos the Canadians have. I remember > > seeing an interview of some Brigadier General with the Canadian defense > > force who spoke wistfully of how some countries actually > > believe that their Armies should be able to actually fight a war and > > possibly win it. > > > > >Good light, > > > Frantisek Vlcek > > >- > > >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > - > > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . > > -- > "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist > fears it is true." -J. Robert > Oppenheimer > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
