GLENGARRIAN

    

From:	Administration Company

	Their has been several changes in Administration Company since the last time that the 
Glengarrian was published:

	As of 1 Jan 98, Administration Clerks and Finance Clerks have combined trades to become
 Resource Management Clerks. The Administration capbadge has been retired and replaced
 with the Logistics capbadge. 

	We had the Ice Storm 98 (Op Recuperation) which saw several of our members get 
quality experience in the maintenance and supply trades. Our tradesmen also projected a good 
light  into the community in spreading the supply and service contracts  locally so everyone 
benefited.  I have heard good reviews in this aspect. Our medical section gained knowledge 
of what they were short and have since put in for the shortages.

	After Op Recuperation we had a split of our company to better serve the chain of 
command. Transport, Maintenance, Medics and Supply stayed with the company and the new 
Resource Management Clerks became part of Battalion Headquarters with direct lines to the DCO 
and Adjt.  We also lost Capt Montpetit (our OC) to OIC Armouries and several other secondary 
jobs. At present our company has one Captain, one MWO, several Cpls and Ptes.

	The army now only has two uniforms of the day, combats and the green DEU (Distinctive 
Environmental Uniform). Gone are the Tan DEU uniforms and the Garrison  Dress Uniform. The 
message has come out that the individual is to dispose of them on their own. We now are no 
longer authorized to wear our ICS (Individual Combat Skills) badges. The CF supplier of combat 
clothing cloth has gone bankrupt. NDHQ and other CF units (Air and Navy) are now wearing 
combat clothing. With these changes our combat clothing is getting scarce. It would be a bad time 
to exchange your combats as we are having a hard time to clothe our own new batch of 50 plus 
recruits. Some will have to wait to get a second set of combats. Good news is we will be getting 
new combat clothing with a disruptive pattern of Canadian invention,  which is less visible from 
current technology, but the bad news is not until the year 2005.

	From all of us in Administration Company we wish you a safe and relaxful summer,
because we will be going full blast coming the fall. For those of you on course, do your best, keep 
at it and you will succeed.



M.C. Earner
Captain
2ic Administration Company