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Originally posted by rob love
In the CF you will be re-issued used clothing, used boots (as long as a permanent imprint from the previous user wasn't impressed in the bottom), salveged food (when you find short pieces of spaghetti in your chili, it's cause it was yesterdays spaghetti sauce right off the steamline), and plenty of used autoparts.When you work in an organisation that has endured Liberal cutbacks for decades, you learn to make do.
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I can vouch for Rob's comments. B.C. was at the end of a very long...and thin supply chain, especially after they closed CFB Chilliwack. We had to go all the way to Edmonton, via commercial aircraft to get kitted out before we could be deployed. When we went on exercise in B.C., it was cheaper to have our meals catered in the field than purchasing I.M.P.'s that quite often were already T.X.'d. We bought civilian pattern boots when C.F. issue combat boots were impossible to come by, and our vehicles were leased civilian pattern trucks and vans! The metal buildings on our base were scavenged from Chilliwack...we had to painstakingly disassemble them, transport them to Abbotsford before reassembling them. Waste not, want not!
CHIMO!