PAG Going to the Dogs?…Not Really!
Pause for Paws By: OCdt Victoria Dombrowsky Are you tired of seeing the same funny animal gifs on 9gag everyday? Have YouTube compilations of dogs barking “I love you” lost their tender touch? Are campus critters still shunning you for that time you wore your Yukon hat during your chilly dash over to Constantine? Fear…
2015 RMC ALUMNI IRELAND TOUR / Travel Opportunity! Space for Two on Upcoming South Danube Tour Hungary to Romania (May 31 to June 14th, 2014)
2015 RMC ALUMNI IRELAND TOUR The below information is designed to accomplish two objectives: 1. Formally announce plans for a RMC Alumni trip to Ireland the week of 24 May 2015. 2. Conduct a survey of RMC Alumni in this 2015 Ireland trip. The survey is non-binding. No commitment needs to be made until October…
Cadets Travel to Florida to Jump From Perfectly Good Aircraft
Cadets Spend Their Reading Week Skydiving in Florida Article by: 25997 OCdt (IV) Andrew Birchall, 7 Sqn Who wants to jump out of a perfectly good airplane for their spring break? Surprisingly, a large group of adrenaline-seeking RMCC Cadets and a few graduates signed up and slapped down over $1,800 each to do exactly that!…
It’s a circuit board that will be treasured
It’s a circuit board that will be treasured Article by Harvey Schachter – Photos by Curtis Maynard Prof. Joey Bray dug it out, work half a decade ago by a final-year student. The circuit boards are drab, and don’t look particularly distinguished. But for the parents and brother of ex-cadet 23463 Harley Heywood, who died…
PPCLI: It Happend April 18th 1945 in Achterveld Holland
It happend April 18th 1945 in Achterveld Holland. Ed: We recently received the following: Dear sir, Concerns the text of Colonel Sydney Frost PPCLI. ‘To commemorate the regiment’s heroic actions in this regard, in 2000 the citizens of Achterveld erected a plaque in honour of the PPCLI’. I can e-mail you a photo of the…
Hall of Valour Members – With Military College Connection
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx • Hall of Valour has 1140 portraits and mini biographies of Canadian veterans. The following have links to the Canadian Military Colleges. http://www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com/default.htm • Bradshaw DAR www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com/BradshawDAR.htm – He graduated from Royal Military College, Kingston ON, in 1934 and was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Dragoons. • Birchall LJ www.canadaveteranshallofvalour.com/BirchallLJ.htm – In June 1937…
Department Political Science: Bringing in Big Names & Tackling Big Issues Too
Caption: e-Veritas correspondent, 26659 OCdt (II) Danielle Andela and John Stackhouse, Editor-in-Chief of the Globe and Mail Media and Democracy in a Digital Age Sponsored by: Department of Political Science By: 26659 OCdt (II) Danielle Andela This Wednesday, the 13th of November, the Royal Military College of Canada had the pleasure of hosting John Stackhouse,…
Visits / Symposiums / Seminars: RMCC & RMCSJ
Ed: We do our best with our limited resources, including manpower to cover as many RMCC & RMCSJ events as possible. We rely greatly on the person(s) in charge to provide heads-up time and a post event short writeup. At RMCC we can usually (not always) cover the event with a camera. At RMCSJ we…
E3161 Victoria Edwards In Conversation with Major Heather Smith; the Senior Chaplain at RMCC
E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC 2003) interviewed Major Heather Smith; the Senior Chaplain at RMCC, who provided photos of gifts to the chapels which were made by successive generations of cadets and ex-cadets. The interview is timely, since both RMC and Protestant Chapels are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2013. What follows is description of the R.M.C.…
Victoria Edwards: Father Jean-Paul Rochefort, R.C. Chaplain
E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC 2003) interviewed Father Jean-Paul Rochefort; currently serving as the Roman Catholic chaplain at RMCC. e-veritas: The interview is timely, since both RMC and Protestant Chapels are celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2013. What follows is description of the R.M.C. Chapels taken from the June, 1963, copy of the RMC Review, somewhat…
The Hymn of Flying Strain
(engineers should recognize this as a feeble attempt to modify Kipling’s ‘The Hymn of Breaking Strain’… The Hymn of Flying Strain (with apologetic thanks to Rudyard Kipling) Flight manuals precisely tell us in lines of black and white The load, the power, the speed of air to use when we take flight. So when…
14835 MGen Eric Tremblay; V Commander CDA – First Army Officer
Photo credits: Brad Lowe CFB Kingston Photo caption: MGen David Millar (centre) presiding over the signing ceremony, signifying the change of command between MGen Pierre Forgues (right) and MGen Éric Tremblay (left). CDA Changes Commanders “How we educate, train and develop our people is the business of the Canadian Defence Academy. How well CDA does…