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There is a late 80's Germany biography by an RCR soldier, James Davis, called, "The Sharp End". He was in recce platoon. One ex the colonel had the companies attacking the wrong hill. Cpl (or MCpl) Shinglefoot comes up on net and in clear tells Niner he's doing things wrong. A colleague of mine was also in recce platoon and listening to the net too, and he tells the same story.

After his retirement, Shinglefoot goes on to write a book about his time in Germany. One piece of kit he mentions is the stealth suit which he likened to a personal weather forcefield - nothing except heavy weather could stop the guys. The writer went a little off-plumb when he mused about why pay expensive Canadians when Ghurkas or other mercenaries could do just as good a job.