I have often wondered

[Col Tigwell]

I was still serving, when Canada went to the single service system.

We had heard stories down here, on how senior officers, died or prospered with their support of the change.

Far too radical for down here, was only moved once by some polly, and got killed straight away.

Now in insite, was it a smart move, or did the move not go far enough, to achieve the stated aims.

Regards

Col Tigwell
Downunder

[cmperry4]

Can of worms now officially opened - who wants to start?

[Col Tigwell]

Oops did not know that this was a can of worms, perhaps we should close this posting out.

Regards

Col Tigwell
Downunder

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally posted by herkman
Oops did not know that this was a can of worms, perhaps we should close this posting out.

Regards

Col Tigwell
Downunder

No, we won't close it out. I'll have some definitive comments to make later. But we'll start with this:

It was a bloody disaster.

[peter simundson]

It was a jole and remains that way. Slowly but surely the sep. services are returning. The picture of navy types wearing combat and addressing each other with army titles....Oh my.
Each regiment now paysfor its own gear if not issued as a general issue item. Poorer or county regiments suffer.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

The Netherlands Army is in the middle of a transformation. While each of the operational services will remain, the materiel commands of all three services are merged into one single command. In a couple of years we'll see if it all works out.

H.

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

When the green uniforms came into effect,my brother who was a navigator on the 412 VIP squadron,out of Ottawa,was the last holdout on the squadron still wearing his blues as he'd been on a lot of overseas flights and hadn't had time to purchase new green duds.When flying the queen up to the arctic,he was on a support aircraft,carrying support staff.He was told to stay out of sight,until official parties disembarked from flights, by a higher up.At one stop he de- planed and ran into an RAF Wing Commander.He looked my brother up and down realizing he was still wearing blues and said,"I didn't think there were any of you types left!!Good to see at least one RCAF uniform still around".

[Norm Cromie (RIP)]

To those who resist single service integration, you are truly pissing in the wind. May I suggest the days of kilts, scarlet tunic’s, feather bonnets; fixed bayonets and the square have long gone. If you have ever laid down on the rifle ranges at Long Branch on a cold Lake Ontario with a high wind during a sleet and rain storm and no great coat or taken a long march in a snow storm with that moisture laced kilt slapping at your legs for about five hours you will sure know what the meaning of kilt burns and a raw bottom means. On October 1939 when we were ordered to turn in our World War 1 web and kilts for the new battle dress I can tell you, I was overjoyed but many of my fellow 48’ers were ready to go into full mutiny.
As more and more of our high tech defense forces move into the computer world with everything controlled by micro chips, you will see the personal identity of the common soldier moving into a world of an impersonal computerized force of reality. When we listen to the stories of today’s line soldier more and more he prophesies his allegiance not to government or bloated financial enterprises, but this allegiance is to his individual unit and his fellow comrades. This is not to say he has not lost his individual act of bravery or his unified effort with the potential ultimate outcome possibly being serious injury or death. He simply is beyond the bullshit from the military God Kings and commercial despots; he is now truly reaching to the peak of reality.

[Lynn Eades]

WOW...... Heavy man!!!!