Well I had a fun time, did a little exercise called Trillium Response - Con plan links where we were an experiment in weather the primary reserve and regular army could be called up by the ministry of natural resources to fight forest fires. Needless to say we pulled it off to a overwhelming surprise of the MNR and the brigade that ran the exercise, though I was conned into going early as advance party to help in setting up a few HLS or Helicopter Landing Sites for the exercise, well I was happy to be allowed to cut down trees on crown land. So both the Brigade and MNR that were present were more than happy of the set up when the exercise finally got underway. Of course the Regular Army went first so they could get back to base for happy hour.... Of course, it's like it always goes, than it left us reserves to pick up the rest of the so called notional "forest fires" that were in the most difficult of terrain features, 60 degree inclines at max while humping a pack of hose, each pack holding 4 lengths of 100 foot hose, and of course we carried 6 packs out to attack the "fire" which was nothing more than pounded pickets with a colored top that was hinged, so if you hit the target, the fire was considered held but not out, which left us to complete 2 more passes back over our initial attack and than the return before our MNR handler said that the fire was considered out. Of course it wasn't finished there, our section of 4 had to retrieve all the hoses through the track we had made, as well as a little extra bit of Ooooh and awwww to the exercise there was a water bombing set on to show what the MNR plane's and Helicopters were capable of doing in dropping the water load on target. Well after all was said and done the whole site was torn down and the section was picked up from our insertion by helicopter and flown back to main camp where A,B and C coy were all formed up for a group picture with the MNR, than we turned in our orange nomex jump suits, so no more carrot patch XD So now that that exercise is all said and done with, im being sent out east till August to be board out of my mind, so Im bringing some movies and some models to paint till I get back, or if I get some decent cell reception maybe an update on my journal now and than from newbrunswick XD