@stemvik

Ex-soldier🇨🇦, scholar, traveler...seeker of the perfect croissant. Independent Company member and battlefield tour guide, 10th Mtn Div vet, Portsmouth FC fan.

 Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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Joined November 2012
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Replying to @DivebumChef @C_Somos
A great resume of the differences in classes of service and the benefits that result, as well as a call to resolve inequities. We have a chance to do this right.
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Replying to @C_Somos
There are important differences in the disability benefits that Regular soldier and Class C (on contract) Reservist soldiers are entitled to @DivebumChef wrote an informative LinkedIn post that laid out the details.
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Jayson Geroux@JaysonGerouxOct 26
1/2 Short🧵 Soldiers from The Royal Canadian Regiment walked for 35 hours from Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Petawawa to the National War Memorial in Ottawa (over 150 kilometres) this weekend to raise funds for the families of the CFB Wainwright tragedy: cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7…

Soldiers walk from Petawawa to Ottawa to raise money for Wainwright...

Five soldiers trekked from Canadian Forces Base Petawawa to the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier to raise money for the victims of the tragic fire at CFB Wainwright. CBC's Cameron Mahler has more.

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Replying to @Legion_Magazine
This is an image of the HMCS Bras d'Or to which your post refers, a lightship sunk in 1940. The image in your post is of HMCS Bras d'Or an experimental hydrofoil launched in 1968 and struck off in 1971. It is on display at the Musee Martime de Quebec.
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Jayson Geroux@JaysonGerouxOct 19
Fears No Foe / Victoria Patricia
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Replying to @AntonyRowntree @WeHaveWaysPod
"Broadsword calling Danny Boy"
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Project '44
@project4_4Oct 14
Band of Brothers is easily the most well known show on WW2. I try not to do a lot on BoB because it is covered so much, but for small engagements this is probably the most well known of them all. I thought it would be fun to test what it would look like animated.
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Project '44
@project4_4Oct 12
December 1944. Antwerp was the most important port the Allies held, and Germany wanted it gone. From launch sites in the Netherlands and the Rhineland, V-1 flying bombs and V-2 rockets fell on the city day and night.
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Replying to @Legion_Magazine
Important things for the troops to know on that map: where are the clubs, where is the field ambulance, where are the provosts?
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Canadian Armed Forces
@CanadianForcesOct 9
On October 8, a headstone rededication ceremony for Sgt Norman Harold McLennan was conducted by The Royal Canadian Regiment at Courcelette British Cemetery, France, exactly 110 years after his death during the Battle of Ancre Heights. 1/4
A military officer wearing a red ceremonial sash is removing a black velvet cover from a headstone. Uniformed personnel stand nearby among white headstones.

ALT A military officer wearing a red ceremonial sash is removing a black velvet cover from a headstone. Uniformed personnel stand nearby among white headstones.

Two people placing a wreath in front of a white headstone in a military cemetery. Military officers are standing in the background.

ALT Two people placing a wreath in front of a white headstone in a military cemetery. Military officers are standing in the background.

Military personnel and civilians are gathered at a military cemetery for a memorial ceremony, standing behind a row of white headstones adorned with red poppy wreaths and Canadian flags.

ALT Military personnel and civilians are gathered at a military cemetery for a memorial ceremony, standing behind a row of white headstones adorned with red poppy wreaths and Canadian flags.

A row of white gravestones in a military cemetery, with plants, flowers, and Canadian flags in front of them. Visitors are seated behind the gravestones.

ALT A row of white gravestones in a military cemetery, with plants, flowers, and Canadian flags in front of them. Visitors are seated behind the gravestones.

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Replying to @militaryhistori
... a mortar bomb not a mortar. #pedanticmuch
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Replying to @oldcanadaseries
Shortly after Canada declared war in September 1939, RCMP Commissioner Wood arranged to create a specialized military police unit from Mountie volunteers. Initially, 116 to 120 RCMP members were accepted into No. 1 Provost Company, which shipped to the United Kingdom in Dec 1939
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Replying to @LateNightSeth @DBtodomundo
"You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile" stopped at a red light with David Byrne on a bike in Manhattan?
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Replying to @Npteggchaser
My first thought was, "Ikea sells clothes now?"
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Replying to @ifellonithonest
I plan on "rescuing" a few later today!
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Replying to @militaryhistori
I have heard a-boot this!
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Replying to @torontohistory
"Come all you Bold Canadians!"youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9HD01V…

Come all You Bold Canadians

According to military historian Donald Graves this song dates to th...

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Replying to @Artemisapphire
Fewer coffins this time.
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Replying to @buitengebieden
"Rural juror?"
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Interesting notes for gunners everywhere.
Matthew Moss | The Armourer's Bench@historicfirearmSep 23
Interesting note about the 105s
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