Military College Life

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Recruit Life  

• The Arrival

• Odd Couples

• Bernie the Spartan Warrior Hero

• The Dreaded Morning Run and Inspection

• Bats and Irish Pennants

• Drill Class 101 (Revised Edition)

• Extra Drill

• Cope and Avis Endless Circles

• Pit-Stuffing - A Novel Rook Flight Pastime

• In a Galley Far Far Away

• The White Glove CWC Inspection

• Roads Memories - Pavlovian Conditioning and the Rook

• Roads Memories - Wooden Ships and Iron[ed] Men

• Roads Memories - Another One Like the Other One

• Roads Memories - Pit Drill

• Roads Memories - A Bridge Too Far

• Roads Memories - What’s in a Name?

• Roads Memories - Food

• Roads Memories - A Bad Start

• Roads Memories - Yeates Runs a Circle

• Roads Memories - Reflections of Royal Roads

• Roads Memories - For Whom the Bell Tolls

College Life

• Parade Follies

• Yeates Irons a Shirt

• Meeting Tom

• A Chance encounter on a snowy afternoon

• Factorial racing and other calculating diversions

• A Stitch in Time

• I Knew it was Going to Hurt

• Three College Intersect

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

• Roads Memories - The Fine Fishies that got Away (from the Navy?)

• Roads Memories - Missed It by That Much

• Roads Memories - Uncle Claymore

Duties

• Roads Memories - Junior Duty Cadet

Events

• Frigate Snowball Fight

• The General and the Ditch

Exams

• Extremis Malis Extrema Remedia

• The Dreaded Calculus

• Roads Memories - Mandarins

• Roads Memories - Exam Routine - Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Leave

• Christmas

  • Slip Sliding Away

Pranks

• Roads Memories - The “Cunning Subway Plan”

• N Flight - When Circles are Just Not Enough

• They Went Down Like Skittles

• The Incredible RCN

• It’s Always the Quiet One

Professors and Staff

• Barton, Blackboards and Ball Bearings

• O Brave New World

• The Man Called Splendid

• Our Drill and Athletics Staff

• RSM Cox - The Stuff of Legends

• School of Silly Walks

• Captain Crunch

• Cap'n Crunch v. Admiral Sid

Skylarks

• Kye, 8 Sqn Style

• The Great Dental Floss Caper

• The Lasalle Squadron Flag Caper

• Roads Memories - In the Lime of Duty

• The Daring 4 Sqn Arch Caper

• The 1st Year Scarlets Heist and a Surprising Response

NB Photos of other Skylarks can be found in the respective RMC or RRMC or CMR Photos sections

Sports

• Football

  • Fond Memories of Football at CMR and RMC

• Hockey

  • How’d He Get in There!

  • Wing Duty Cadet

• Rugby

  • The Roads Rugby Team on the Long and Winding Road

• Wrestling

  • Roads Memories - “Mad Dog” Pickett

• Tug of War

  • Roads Memories - Ambiguity of Language Is the Nemesis of Knowing, or How I Bamboozled the English Major Major

Summer Training

• Pre-BOTC

  • Roads Memories - Mutiny on Mount Benson

• Basic Officer Training Course

  • North – The Most Important Meal

  • Ex Papillon - The Lucky Tango Trio from Kilo Flight

  • Ex Papillon - Copey Leads with The Tao of Pooh

  • Sistrurus Catenatus and Me, or: Not Just Another Escape and Evasion Story!

  • Roads Memories - Escape and Evasion

• Environmental Training

  • Air - Pet Rocks

  • Sea – Lord Mountbatten

  • Sea - Ship of Fools

  • Thelma and Louise

  • The [Not So] Wild Ones

  • On the Road with Booner!

  • Headlights, Black Bears and Travel on the Cheap

  • CMR and RMC Midshipmen - Bang Not a Whimper!

  • The A to Z Experience at HMCS Venture

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Engineering Department of a Warship

UTPM

• UTPM Hockey Game

Post-Military College Life

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Military Career

• Flight Planning and Car Jacking

• Fostering CAN/US Relations

• Always on the Move!

• Moose Jaw – Pumpkin Man

• Terry Fox - Quit was a Word He Never Learned

• A (Cod) Fish out of Water

Family

• The Final Flight of Malcolm Mowat

• MacLeod - My Best Shoes

• A Maritimer’s Meandering Digital Road in Family History

Pandemic Life