#fieldexercise

Back in the field for the final exercise of this serial’s Army Junior Leadership Course! It’s the final stretch before some well deserved summer leave and I’m looking forward to putting my feet up and enjoying the down time 👌 That being said, I’m quite pleased with amount of reading I was able to get done in July with all of the longer Covid induced work weeks, late nights at the office and in the trenches. July’s reading haul included books 11 and 12 in the Sharpe series which covers Captain Richard Sharpe’s adventures during the Peninsula Campaign, a recounting of the besieged Irish UN Peacekeepers at Jadotville during the Congo/Katangan crisis, and a memoire of one women’s journey in and out of the Canadian Armed Force (Ladies, if you’re looking for some Girl Power/Military Motivation, read something else!) I’m hoping to finish off the summer and start my leave block getting more pages down range, hopefully with something cold and boozy in my hand 👍 🍺 #bookstagram #julyreads #covidreads #fieldexercise #canadianarmy #AJLC #PLQ #bernardcornwell #sharpesfury #sharpesbattle #declanpower #siegeatjadotville #kellythompson #girlsneednotapply (at Kentville, Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDb1rJXHi_JepazBWeaCTjCbsonEgKGjgMVsFo0/?igshid=cqydda1a08ny

Back into the routine of course instruction has enabled me to get back to a relativity regular reading schedule. Thankfully October gave me the opportunity to read four informative, eclectic, and entertaining books! October’s haul includes the second book (chronologically) on the fictitious adventures of Napoleonic era British Soldier turned Officer Richard Sharpe, Malcolm Gladwell’s new book on the study of why many of our social interactions with strangers go wrong, Ted Barris’ recanting of his father’s experiences as a combat medic in the Second World War with a history of Combat Medicine from the American Civil War to Today and a focus on the Canadian perspective, and finally Douglas Murray’s analysis on the tripwire issues that surround current social discourse and their surrounding crowd mentalities. A lot of November will be spent in the field on exercise. Hoping to keep this steady pass up regardless of that though! 😁 📚 #bookstagram #books #octoberreads #Aldershot #FieldExercise #CourseInstruction #CanadianArmy #sharpestriumph #richardsharpe #bernardcornwell #talkingtostrangers #MalcolmGaldwell #TedBarris #rushtodanger #douglasmurray #themadnessofcrowdsgenderraceandidentity (at Aldershot, Nova Scotia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4VrqwBpii8/?igshid=1wi80yvmozmm4

#usmc#laad#7ton#cleaning#fieldexercise#oohrah (at Fisher Landing Recreation Site)