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Topic: MORE TRAVIA(WORST" O "GROUPS) (Read 301 times)
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Chet Malone
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I can remember in Winnipeg 1985, we moved a piano into Cox's PMQ, we had to use a MLVW HIAB to get it up through the second floor balcony window. It took him 20 minutes to tell the three of us on the work detail which door to bring it through. Then Cox's wife shows up and tells him she wants the piano on the mail floor, looking quite flustered it took him another 15 minutes to tell us to move it from the second floor to the main floor. All the while this grand piano is hanging 20 feet in the air from 2 cargo straps.
I seen him again after his accident in Cyprus at NDMC when i went in for knee surgery, when he's alone he doesn't stutter that much, but get him in a group and he's like and old vickers machine gun.
I can remember in Winnipeg when Vic Hickey went in front of him on orders parade, i was his escort, RSM Riley marches us in and we come to attention in front of Cox's desk. Now what you have to know is Vic stutters like crazy when he get nervous, he can't get a word out, all you hear is MMMM, NNNNN and so on, i'm sure you get the picture. Well Riley reads of the charges ana this ana that and when Cox asks how Vic pleads, well it was the worst day of my life, all that came out was a bunch of NNNNN OOOOOOT GGGGGGG UUUU etc. Well Cox went balistic, i've never seen someone get up from behind a desk so fast and he was in Hickey's face ARE YOU TRYINGTO BE A SMARTASS SOLDIER!!!! Vic is trying to get his answer out but it just won't come out but a bunch of grunts and stuttering. I finnaly spoke up and told Riley that Vic stutters alot when he gets nervous, after Cox heard this he settled down, he sat back down, by this time Vic was sweating buckets, Cox gave him some trivial punishment, ordered Riley to march us out and then called Vic back into his office. After he came back out he had a new job, he was now the new Co's driver. he then calls me in, and i think here we go i'm in big shit now. He sits me down and thanks me for helping Vic out and then he dismisses me. To top it all of i also stutter when i get nervous, have since i was a kid, sometimes i can't even get a word out, and believe you me at that moment i was nervous! But somehow that day everything i said came out crystal clear.
Jimmy Cox and RSM Riley were hard but at the same time very fair in their dealings with the troops, out of any CO and RSM i would have to say, they were my favorites. I have the greatest respect for both of them. Cox always lead by example and he had a way of earning your respect. I know they both left a lasting impression on me and i'm sure many others.
Great memories!
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Battle school depot 79/80 Petawawa
1RCR London Dukes coy 1980
3RCR 1980 - 1984 Baden
3RCR 1984 -1986 Winnipeg Kapyong Barracks
Infantry school Tpt Pl Gagetown 1986 - 1988
3RCR 1988 - 1992 Baden Q Coy Bn Tpt.
4RCR London 1992 - 1999 Reg force cadre
31 Bge HQ 1999-2001 Desk jockey.
Medical release in London 2001
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ranrad
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Well, great stuff here and all in a recollection of real history of The RCR, and as you all know these CSM's ,RSMs, were stuutter or no stutter the hardest , toughest and fairest men on the face of the planet, and all of these incidents must have been a real ordeal for them.Good stuff here guys, it is history and i am sure is not meant to poke fun at anyone, although it seems some have done it to themselves. Thanks, ranrad
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RCAF,CAF, converted RCR?,1RCR 74-77 CD: SSM (Nato);CPSM,;UN-Cyp.; UN- Golan
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