Sgt Hotspur has completed his week's parachuting at Teuge, The Netherlands, and is now "certified".  Full story later this week!

Another Brave Bear on Slingsby's Team!

HQ BEARS 20 APR 09

CPL HOTSPUR IS PROMOTED TO SGT WITH IMMEDIATE EFFECT.

To be absolutely honest, he was lucky to get that promotion. His new Desert uniform required new rank badges, and the only desert ones in stock were for sgt. We hope this promotion changes his luck permanently!

HQ BEARS - 18 APR 09

REGRET TO REPORT TWO BEARS ARE CURRENTLY 'MISSING IN ACTION'. CPL HORSA AND MCPL AMY ARE BOTH CATEGORISED AS 'LOST IN THE POSTAL SYSTEM' AND ARE LONG OVERDUE.  TRACING ACTION CONTINUES.

Currently on an overseas cruise aboard HMCS St John's, our bold Cpl Horsa and his handler have made the news. They have featured in "The Maple Leaf", the magazine of the Canadian Armed Forces.

241100 JAN 08, HQ BEARS

SGT HELIER BRAILLE POSTED WEF 25 JAN 09 FROM JERSEY FIELD SQUADRON (M), ROYAL ENGINEERS (THE ROYAL MILITIA OF THE ISLAND OF JERSEY) TO SGT SLINGSBY TEAM FOR FUND-RAISING AND PUBLICITY DUTIES.

Bringing us right up to date, Sgt Slingsby now has a widget, courtesy of Spring Widgets. This allows the latest news and information from Sgt Slingsby and the team to be displayed on Facebook, My Space, iGoogle, Blogger, Piczo, Pageflakes, Netvibes, web sites and many many more.

171259 DEC 08, HQ BEARS

CASUALTY REPORT

REGRET TO INFORM CPL HOTSPUR MIA SAT 13 DEC 08. LAST KNOWN LOC RMS QUEEN MARY, LONG BEACH, CA, USA.

12 months ago a plea for help for an ex servicemen who'd fallen on hard times was posted in the NAAFI forum on the Army Rumour Service web site. This is a report on the transition from this to where we are now.

Within hours we'd secured enough to ensure his property was safe, within a few more hours we had enough to provide him with a Christmas, a few more hours there was enough to send him to Spain along with his family and square away their passports. This is a long article but please take the time to read on.

Meet MCpl Amy Soldier, she is on the team to augmenting the ranks of the Royal Bear Corps. She'll be on exchange. Here's the story of her creator. Thanks to Fred Herman, the man who designed her, Fred Herman, is 33 year veteran of the CF. He holds the CD2 (that's 2 bars - CD is awarded for the first 12, then every ten after that a bar is added). He went on to work as a civvy with DND and then as a Commissionaire (made up of retired CF personnel).

"After serving for 33 years in the Canadian Armed Forces, I later followed that career within the Military environment for an additional 10 years. During my lengthy career, I was a multi-decorated Canadian Forces Peacekeeper. I then decided to seek out other opportunities to contribute to society and escape the possibility of boredom during my retirement years.