Clearing Up A Couple Of Points
Good day all,
Just to clarify a few points from the above posts.
Bill, in your post #7, naming conventions are pretty specific for the CF. In full, a unit's name is spelled out completely, e.g. Second Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment. The short form should not have any nominal lettering, e.g. "st/nd/rd/th". So the correct short form for the Second Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment is always 2 RCR. Anything else is incorrect.
For 'Huggies Baby', Canada's SAS Company was only in existence for a short time after WW II, two to three years at the most. Although the Officer Commanding, Capt Guy d'Artois, based the company's training on his experiences in OSS during the war, the main purpose of the unit was to maintain a parachute expertise in the Canadian Army. This expertise was carried on after this by designating battalions in the Army's Regular Force regiments as airborne/air transportable. Since the demise of the Canadian Airborne Regiment, the CF has started two SF units, Joint Task Force 2 and the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, who are in the game overseas.
And Jo, I don't think the Special Service Force was ever 2 SSF. 2 Combat Group, SSF, 2CMBG is the way it went I believe.
Ian
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