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Jim Hickson
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
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Ghalsey
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looks kinds like a Tent City 
I think I stayed at that hotel a few times
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Geoff Halsey
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Anybody from 3 RCR Winnipeg should know this place.
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Wainwright 
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Wain-istan
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Rudy Aubut
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Wainwright it is, RV 85 methinks, our bivvy area.
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The thing I remember the most about RV 85 was the Catipillars cooking on the
engine of the grizzly  what a stink.
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I hear you, whenever we went through the trees with our tracks the little suckers would rain down on us.
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I still run away screaming in terror every time I see one of the small furry little b**t**ds!
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LOTPed medic 1988; CFH Halifax '88 - '90
119 AD Bty medic, CFB Chatham '90 - '95
2RCR medic '95 - '00; SFOR Bosnia, 2RCR Roto 4 '99;
42 Hlth Svc Gagetown '00 - '02
CFRC Gagetown / Fredericton '02 - '06; 'retired' Aug '06
HMCS Jolliet, Sept-Iles QC, medical staff / 'tiffy' (reserves)
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Jim Hickson
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Hey Guys
Stop badmouthing my last posting. I did spend 4 yrs there and I did like it. lololol
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
1995-1999 Base CWO Wainwright
1999-Retired
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Geez, it looks pretty neat ,clean and a lot better than many i saw and lived in...hehehe, but i was never in Wainright.. great pic tho. thanks Jim, ranrad
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Yes Ran but the leaves arn't out or they have all been eaten by the hordes
and I mean hordes of catipillars.
We would pull into a cops of trees for cover and the carrier top would be crawling
with them. You would walk on the carrier and be sliding in them 
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Geoff Halsey
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Hi Geoff
Afraid of little catipillars lololol
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1961-Depot San Lenorado
1962-1st Bn RCR Ex Gagetown
1962-JR NCO Course Grad 19 Oct
1962-1965 Germany B-C-D-A Coy (Revecated Nov 64)
1965-1967 Sigs Pl Cyprus Prom CPL 'til xmas and C of Drums
1967-1973 Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, Sigs, D Coy
1973-1977 CFOCS Chilliwack Prom WO
1977-1982 UEO, Sigs, Pl WO RECCE, CSM B&A Coy,
1982-1984 SIT School
1984-1988 Career Manager (Prom CWO 1986)
1988-1990 RSM 1RCR
1991-1995 CWO Adm(Per) - C Of S
1995-1999 Base CWO Wainwright
1999-Retired
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Well Geoff i can see it would be a bit crappy and dangerous slipping and sliding on the greasy critters.. something like the fish flies on main street of Gimli every year.. evem cars didnt move too well....another obstacle for training? Hehehe.. be a bit of a bother if they got in ones clothes etc....ranrad
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On second thought this picture was taken during RV 87, the creepy crawlies were at RV 85, I remember living in the old bell tents. The outsides of the tents were just crawling with caterpillers.
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I wondered about that with the lack of leaves
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We would pull into a cops of trees for cover and the carrier top would be crawling
with them. You would walk on the carrier and be sliding in them
Hey Geoff, was the pic before the leaves were out or after the caterpillar horde?  I remember RV87 being the grass-hopper infestation; though RV92 didn't beleive we had any infestation
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1RCR Duke's Coy '82 - '87; Cyprus '84 / '85
LOTPed medic 1988; CFH Halifax '88 - '90
119 AD Bty medic, CFB Chatham '90 - '95
2RCR medic '95 - '00; SFOR Bosnia, 2RCR Roto 4 '99;
42 Hlth Svc Gagetown '00 - '02
CFRC Gagetown / Fredericton '02 - '06; 'retired' Aug '06
HMCS Jolliet, Sept-Iles QC, medical staff / 'tiffy' (reserves)
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Not that anyones talking about anyway LOL LOL
No that would be RV 85 while on pass to the Wainwright Hotel (not I)
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1RCR Duke's Coy '82 - '87; Cyprus '84 / '85
LOTPed medic 1988; CFH Halifax '88 - '90
119 AD Bty medic, CFB Chatham '90 - '95
2RCR medic '95 - '00; SFOR Bosnia, 2RCR Roto 4 '99;
42 Hlth Svc Gagetown '00 - '02
CFRC Gagetown / Fredericton '02 - '06; 'retired' Aug '06
HMCS Jolliet, Sept-Iles QC, medical staff / 'tiffy' (reserves)
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aaahhh memories. Beautiful wainright. Wide open fields and beautiful little furry creatures. This is wainright isn't it? Those little bastards were everywhere. Rv 87 was my last RV with the BTN. before remustering. What RV were the grasshoppers at? But those catipillars. Remember the Beer strike during RV 85? We had to drink Black Label. Better than nothing. Or was it RV 87? Can't remember. Do they still have RV's every year?
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Hey Dennis; no more RV's, last I beleive was '92 (I was with 119 Air Defence Battery as Bty medic in Chatham). I remember the beer strike: started out west while we were at RV; by the time we got back to London, strike had hit there too; by the time I went home to the Rock on summer leave, srike had hit out east: spent most of the spring & summer drinking yank beer!
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1RCR Duke's Coy '82 - '87; Cyprus '84 / '85
LOTPed medic 1988; CFH Halifax '88 - '90
119 AD Bty medic, CFB Chatham '90 - '95
2RCR medic '95 - '00; SFOR Bosnia, 2RCR Roto 4 '99;
42 Hlth Svc Gagetown '00 - '02
CFRC Gagetown / Fredericton '02 - '06; 'retired' Aug '06
HMCS Jolliet, Sept-Iles QC, medical staff / 'tiffy' (reserves)
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Well, i understand those furry litle b*****s would be a real pest .. but i would take them over rats anyday, anyone out there done a tour in the Golan??? Then you know of what i speak... black rats everywhere.....ugh.. likely killed a million of them myself....cooks and supply techs killed miilions more....and they were still as many....but they didnt like cats.. against the rules we used cats in the food supply bldgs and the rats left the bldgs.....anyone have recollections of the rats of the Golan?? Remember the old painting in the A Line Mess, of the rats being forced over a cliff... looked like a herd of buffalo going aver, and still there were rats.. i will likely never forget those critters.........ranrad
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you guys and the caterpillars, the other day i was going through some old things and came across an old map(1/50:000) and unfolding it i found a fossil of one of those little furry caterpillars. No Shit guys it's in the basement right now ,the map i mean! I remember those little pests and guys drawing a line at the entrance to the tents calling the caterpillars on to cross the line and then lighting them up with a can of insect repellent and a bic. Those little pests would repell from the tent tops. It Was RV 85 i was in Charles coy at the time 9 platoon. I also remember that we had an ozzie cpl. attatched to us Kevin Ryan was his name. Big Bird (WO Morris) went to oz in his replacement. Merry X-mas Y'all
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1RCR (82-88) B coy 6pl, (84-85) UNFICYP- BBC coy Tpt, C coy 9pl, E coy Mortars, (88-90) CFB Halifax Base Chief's Staff, CFB Trenton Refinisher Tech.(90-92). UNFICYP,CPSM
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you guys and the caterpillars, the other day i was going through some old things and came across an old map(1/50:000) and unfolding it i found a fossil of one of those little furry caterpillars. No Shit guys it's in the basement right now ,the map i mean! I remember those little pests and guys drawing a line at the entrance to the tents calling the caterpillars on to cross the line and then lighting them up with a can of insect repellent and a bic. Those little pests would repell from the tent tops. It Was RV 85 i was in Charles coy at the time 9 platoon. I also remember that we had an ozzie cpl. attatched to us Kevin Ryan was his name. Big Bird (WO Morris) went to oz in his replacement. I remember that we came back from Cyprus in March and took 2 weeks off then headed out to Alberta for 3 months. We came to Wainright in April and after a couple of days i remember waking up to a snow covered tent. Merry X-mas Y'all
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