A young corporal, back home after being wounded in Afghanistan, where he was a rifleman and infantry company piper, wants to know if anybody else wants an arid-pattern pixellated camouflage bagpipe bag cover, like the one he carried in battle at Panjwaii. They can be custom-made in Petawawa, for $65 or so. Now you know.
(The army.ca discussion board is one of the more frustrating Canadian things on the Web – as a wise friend once pointed out, the people who would be giving moderators grey hairs on most other sites actually are the moderators. Also, they all loathe the media, which I don’t take personally, but gets tedious. The noise-to-signal ratio is very high, to put it mildly.)