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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)
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Subject: Re: Gulf - Canadian forces?
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Date: 27 Jan 91 11:06:17 GMT
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From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt)

 
> From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
>  OOPS!  I no sooner sent that off than I saw a picture of a member of R22R
> on airstrip security duty in Saudi Arabis.
>   Sorry, I lied: we have canadian ground troops from the Royal 22nd Regiment,
> the ``Van Doos'' in the Gulf.  Guarding planes, mind you, but defnitely the
> army.

  The R22eR (pronunced are-two-two-ers) is(was) a Mech Infantry battalion
  that served with the 4th CMBG in Lahr, Germany.  If memory serves, they
  were a 'french-speaking' battalion.   The other manuever units
  with the 4th CMBG were the 3rd Bn, RCR (Royal Canadian Regiment) (Mech
  Inf) and a tank battalion, RCD (Royal Canadian Dragoons)(Leopard MBT).

  "Leopard" - the obvious pronunciation is "Le' pard", but most use the
  german pronunciation "Lee o pard"

  Anyway, I have some fond memories of some very 'interesting' formal dinner
  affairs at the Black Forest Officer's Mess with the Canadians.  


  Mike Schmitt   

                  "Pass down 'nother brew, eh?"