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Sorry if my comments were confusing, but I was surprised to see 'ol clem there in the early/mid 60's! I thought he only joined in '68 or so. Does look like Darryl Bazin in the back there but he was a mcpl when I first met him in '85, so pretty sure he isn't a ferret guy either.

As for "combat clem" he was a weird bird when he was in but became infamous after he retired and had the CF pay for his sex change! He/she's now known as Elizabeth, not sure what the queen thinks about that.

The Brits still had a scout car troop equipped with ferrets in '88. I did a two month long exchange over there with them (9/12 lancers IFIRC) and they were pretty handy in the streets of old Nicosia. They were Mk II's with the turrets, i was told they had several dozen in storage down at Akrotiri because the VOR rate was so high.