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« on: November 22, 2006, 04:48:32 AM »		 Reply with quote
  I THINK SOME OF THE UNKNOWN HISTORY OF THE REGT LIGHTER SIDE SHOULD BE REMEMBER SO HERE A BIT OF RCR TRAVIA SEE IF YOU CAN GUESS.   No1,What was the first flag put up at the Canadian Embassy after the liberation of Kuwait,in Mar 1991. No2, who put it up. No3.Who got hit in the back of the head with a fish while fighting a forest fire in Petawawa in the summer of 1974 when a water bomber drop it,s load an is it true or not. See if you can gruss     MOE
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« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2006, 11:11:42 AM »		 Reply with quote
Well PNRMOE, i am looking forward to seeing the results of your little quiz here.. they sound real interesting.. good idea to do this.. hey, it too is a big part of the history of The RCR, ranrad
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« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2006, 12:00:56 PM »		 Reply with quote
If memory serves me right, I think it was Joe Parsons (aka Sparky) RIP who led the detachment of Royal Canadians in Kuwait. I'm guess it was he.
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3RCR  1979-82  M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR  1982-88  Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
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« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2006, 03:08:53 PM »		 Reply with quote
YES MIKE IT WAS JOE THE FIRST FLAG UP WAS THE RCR IT WAS UP FOR ABOUT 30 SEC SO JOE COULD TAKE THE PIC THEN HE LOWED IT AN PUT UP THE CANADIAN FLAG . HE CAME ALL THE WAY FROM UP FROM WERE HE WAS IN BAHRAIN TO AL JUBAYL TO FIND ME  HE TOLD ME THE STORY AN SHOWED ME THE PIC.AS EVERYONE KNOWS JOE AN I JOIN TOGEHTER AN WE TIGHT FOR A BUDDY TO COME 700 KM DURING A WAR TO SEE HIS BUDDY SAY, SOMETHING ABOUT THE RCR FAMILY THE PIC IS WITH JOES WIFE BUT ITS PARTHISTORY NOW. PART 2 OF WHO GOT HIT WITH THE FISH IT WAS RAY CLUETTAN IT IS TRUR ASK TIMBER TOM OR FRED WHITE              MOE
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« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2006, 03:30:58 PM »		 Reply with quote
Yes, Rick. Joe was a damn good guy. As you may recall, I met him back in seventy eight when I joined you guys in Pioneers... my most memorable recollections of those times and Joe was the time the Germans came to pick us up in their helicopters to attack this Norwegian on top of this mountain.. anyhow, I was a C2 gunner, in the side seats of the ole hueys, Sparkey is sitting beside me as the chopper  maneuvers up the side of this mountain... freaking rotor blades looked way to close to the slope for my liking... anyhow, the N'wegies can see us coming and, naturally, would have blown the hell out of us but we carries on anyway... The helicopter levels off, the German guy goes rouse, I looks, out, holy crap, the ground, slope wise, was eight feet under the skids. Joe looks at me, says we 'll all be killed, and pushed me out. He landed about two feet beside me, sheet, snow was about six feet deep, by the time we got straitened out and got out snow shoes even the umpire was laughing... Hilarious.

Speaking of fish falling out of the sky, I wonder if anybody has any pictures of the lake we, ah. blew up by mistake. chuckle. Or that bridge we were to build and, after all the wood was cut and dragged out of the bush, S. realized the main beams were a foot to F'n short...

What did Ray do after getting smacked in the head with the fish? Sheesh, of all people to get it, eh? Were there witnesses?
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3RCR  1979-82  M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR  1982-88  Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
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1992 Medical release. God Bless you all! 

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« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2006, 03:51:30 PM »		 Reply with quote
YES MIKE THERE WERE WITNESSES FORTHE FISH WHAT HAPPEN WAS THEY ATE IT .I REMEMEBER THE NORWAY DROP OFF SNOWSHOES WENT PLACES WERE A DOCTOR WOULD NOT GO.  ABOUT THE LAKE WERE YOU THERE WHEN THE GAME WARDEN GAVE HIS STATMENT (THERE WERE FISH IN THE TREES,FISH ON THE ROAD, THE BEAVER DAM WAS GONE) IN A GOOD QUE VOICE.MYSELF AN SONNINBERG WENT UP IN THE SPRING TODO THE DAMAGE REPORT WE SAW NOTHING WE HEARD NOTHING AN GOT BACK TO LONDON AT FAST AS WE COULD. THOSE WERE TEH DAYS             MOE
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« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2006, 03:56:37 PM »		 Reply with quote
Then there was that ole trappers shack...pooooooooffffffffffff.... Nothing to compare with the firepower demonstrations in Suffield though eh? Fire in the hole...
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1RCR  1977-79  Depot (Italy PL), B Coy, Mortars, Pioneers, D Coy (CFB London)
3RCR  1979-82  M Coy, Pipes & Drums, Sigs, Mortars. (CFB Baden-Soellingen)
1RCR  1982-88  Mortars. Dukes, Cyprus-Welfare NCO 84-85, Injured, WO&Sgts Mess, (CFB London)
1988-92 Med-remuster to HELL/ 35 DU, CFB Baden
1992 Medical release. God Bless you all! 

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« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2006, 04:06:47 PM »		 Reply with quote
THE FISHING SHACK WENT GOOD ALSO THE MOUNTAIN TOP FOR THE LZ I GOT THE PICS FROM THE GAINT VIPER IN SUFFIELD PLUS OTHERS THAT LIFTED THE DOZER SOMEWHERES I'LL LOOK FOR THEM AN SEND THEM TO YOU.    MOE
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