Used to work with one!!
Sure seemed like it, anyway ... "Mr. Queen's Own Rifles"
This guy was Canada's Minister of Militia at the beginning of WW I and is one of the most infamous scoundrels in our history.
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/sir-samuel-hughes
OH DEAR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If Hughes is "our greatest scoundrel" as judged by
some damned LIE-beral at Cdn Encyclopedia.......................
then I suggest that the article was written BEFORE Jean Chretien paid out FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS................................
for the privilege of NOT BUYING HELICOPTERS for the Cdn military!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suggest the article was written BEFORE the THREE BILLION DOLLAR LIE-beral adscam THEFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suggest the article was written BEFORE Cdn news media began referring to Wynne-bag Ontari-owe LIE-berals.............................
as the "MOST CORRUPT GOVT" in our history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suggest that any sins of Hughes PALE INTO NOTHING............................................
compared to Lavalin and the Admiral Norman trial FIASCO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Cdn Encyclopedia tells us this about HUGHES::::
"Hughes was dismissed from that war (Meaning the South African Boer war) for military indiscipline and public exposure of incompetent British generalship."
OH DEAR ME..........................................how AWFUL.................................................
that Hughes RECOGNIZED BAD GENERALS when he saw them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And who recalls that the reason Britain eventually defeated the "wily Boers" ...........................................
was because Brit troops rounded up and INTERNED every Boer woman and child and old man they could find..............................
dumped them all into CONCENTRATION CAMPS...........................................
with little fresh food and NO SANITARY facilities!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO SOAP....................................
NO HOT WATER.........................................
NO toilets........................................
nothing but a daily helping of filth and rampant infectious diseases!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conditions in the Boer camps were the most terrible public relations black eye the British govt ever got!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To be DISMISSED from such a catastrophic military MESS for making complaints..............................................
IS TO HUGHES CREDIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS for the infamous Ross Rifle.......................................
there is a FINE EXAMPLE of military IGNORANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of EXACTLY the sort fostered by our LIE-beral overlords!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Ross company had been in business for MANY DECADES......................................
and its main rifle took the same .303 cartridge as the British military Lee-Enfield rifle..............................................
but Cdns never considered the DIFFERENCE between a soldier......................................
firing multiple rounds in defense of his life......................................................
and a hunter firing one or two rounds to obtain venison for the cooking pot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Ross Rifle HAD GREATER RANGE AND ACCURACY than the Lee-Enfield.......................................
due to the Ross breech being made to a more precise and TIGHT FIT................................
too bad there was NO ALLOWANCE MADE for the breech heating up.............................
as the soldier fired MULTIPLE SHOTS.....................................
which resulted in the Ross breech jamming till it cooled off again..................................
LEE-Enfields had a LOOSER fitting BREECH that allowed for heat and expansion.................................
and traded off some range and accuracy for MUCH reduced jamming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cdn LIE-beral disdain for our military is pushing us Back TO THE SAME SORT OF CRAP .................................
that got Hughes into trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simple lac kof communication got Hughes into trouble!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hughes was QUITE CERTAIN that Cdn troops were not properly cleaning their Ross rifles...............................
and that sloppy maintenance by hurriedly trained Cdn AMATEUR SOLDIERS.........................
was the cause of the Ross Rifle defect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There IS NO SUBSTITUTE for real world practice and experience with military weapons and systems!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you want to make sure it works.......................................
THEN YOU MUST PRACTICE WITH IT ...............................
under many different conditions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Our LIE-beral overlords DESPISE the Cdn military and want to keep them as much in the dark as possible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!