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Thread #75488   Message #1327851
Posted By: GUEST
15-Nov-04 - 06:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Curious About Mudcat Veterans
Subject: RE: BS: Curious About Mudcat Veterans
Chief Chaos:

Do you mean that some Mudcatters will cause trouble for you in the service, or that people in the service would cause you grief if they found out about something you posted on the Mudcat? I find myself biting my tongue every now and then, and not posting exactly what I'm thinking because as a serving officer I don't have an unrestricted right to comment on matters of government policy: the thread on Canadian submarines is a case in point. More often, I restrain myself because I might be sitting down down some day at a session with the person who has just written something asinine and offensive on a military subject - see the thread on the Black Watch soldiers who were killed in Iraq.

My own service has never put me in harm's way. I have 22 years and 8 months of service, 5 as a reserve logistics officer, and the rest in the Canadian Forces Legal Branch. I have had tours in Bosnia and Haiti. Right now I am serving as defence counsel, which is why I am posting as a guest from Brandon, Manitoba. I will be in court tomorrow.

As far as I can tell, Chief Chaos, Reel Brew, and I are the only Mudcatters still in uniform. I hope I'm wrong.

Edmund