Canadian Piper in Haiti

[EvanL]

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The Task Force Haiti Pipe Major, Master Corporal (MCpl) Mark Heagle from Milton, Ontario with the Second Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment (2RCR) Pipes and Drums, plays the bagpipes as the sun sets in Port-au-Prince, haiti. Operation Halo is Canada's contribution to the United Nations Multinational Interim Force, the Command is called Task Force Haiti. The Canadian Forces has deployed about 450 personnel and six CH-146 Griffon helicopters to Haiti. Their mission is to assist in bringing peace and stability to Haiti in anticipation of a follow-on United Nations stabilization force.

[RSK]

The beautiful sounds of Scotland...

Even though I'm not Scottish.. When I hear the bag pipes i get goosebumps. I love the sound of em!

[Scrim]

A detail of the Drum and Pipe Corps played at a Marine Corps Ball I attended sevaral years ago. Your right RSK, talk about goosebumps...

[Spearin]

I play the Pipes :)

[Wilco]

I was at a fallen officers funeral and the bagpipe player began playing in the distance, brought me to tears just hearing it.

[EvanL]

Back in Ottawa when i was playing hockey, we had a game against the yanks. We let the yanks go out first out of respect and they skated out to the Star Spangled Banner, and we waited till they were done and came skating on with a group of pipes and drums playing Scotland the Brave. The yanks got a little nervouse after that ;)
It was a good game, although they made us turn off the scoreboard when it reached 13-0 for us :D
We traded medals with them and stuff and it was a bunch of really cool kids.

[MapleLeafInfantry]

Even, you havn't heard pipes until you've heard "the rogues of scotland"
best tune ever, i couldn't imagine another march...
mli

[EvanL]

Even, you havn't heard pipes until you've heard "the rogues of scotland"
best tune ever, i couldn't imagine another march...
mli
They play pipes in wales right? Im sure ive heard welsh pipes before.

[Romulus]

Nice pic Evan. woot

Love the bagpipes.

[George W. Bush]

I was expecting to see one of these..

http://www.netaxs.com/~mhmyers/cdjpgs/cub.jpg

[MapleLeafInfantry]

Even, you havn't heard pipes until you've heard "the rogues of scotland"
best tune ever, i couldn't imagine another march...
mli
They play pipes in wales right? Im sure ive heard welsh pipes before.

yeah, difficult to find this side of the pond, my regiment is Irish, so we have caubeens & kilts, but the kilts are far to expensive to be issued, its a shame we don't have a band b/c that'd be awesome, were more of a field then a gaurds regt anywhoo.. the cadet core does a decent job for us with the pipes...

[Seoulstriker]

I was expecting to see one of these..

http://www.netaxs.com/~mhmyers/cdjpgs/cub.jpg

so was I. :)

[simple jumper]

The best is when you're on a parade and as you march off the P&D play "Black Bear". You have each soldier yell "OYYYYYYYY!" all together at one point in the song. Even if you're not from a highland unit it fills you with pride. Ahhhh memories.

[Argyll]

1st 3 years of my career were spent in the Pipes and Drums.

[DANJANOU]

Having served in two Highland regiments, I agree there is just something about Pipes that gets to you either on the Parade Square or in the field. Probably why the Sasanachs tried to ban them as an instrument of war, before they got smart and started putting us in uniforms instead of fighting us.

Good picture. I wonder what the locals think of them.

[EvanL]

Having served in two Highland regiments, I agree there is just something about Pipes that gets to you either on the Parade Square or in the field. Probably why the Sasanachs tried to ban them as an instrument of war, before they got smart and started putting us in uniforms instead of fighting us.

Good picture. I wonder what the locals think of them.
Haha they probably think hes crazy.
I lived in Trinidad for 3 years and attended a Canadian school there, and one of the teachers came to school once with his pipes and in his kilt began playing Maple Leaf Forever, and everybody was like "What the ****"?

[Scrim]

Off topic but we dont have a Piper picture section yet, so here.



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AL KUT, Iraq - British soldier Andy Wright, with 1st Black Watch, and Maj. Jim Pritchard, from Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464, play the bag pipes at Kut Cemetery in Al Kut before the May 8 rededication ceremony. Marine with Task Force Tarawa decided to repair the cemetery for British soldiers believed to have fought in World War I, after discovering its decrepit condition.
Photo by: Lance Cpl. Andrew P. Rouf

[Spearin]

I'm in the Pipes and Drums for my Regiment. It really is great for esprit de corps, especially on Remembrance Day when all the Military Units in Hamilton are marching up to Gore Park for the ceremony... it's best once we march back and into the Armoury. The building is just filled with the sound and all the onlookers on the balcony above with the troops marching perfectly in step (with a few exceptions :P)... just an awesome feeling.

I'm also the unofficial Piper of B Coy (our Rifle Company); the OC wants me to pipe for them in the field, but I haven't had the chance to go out with them yet. So, if you ever encounter the (Canadian) Argylls in the field somewhere and there is a Piper leading them on, it might be me ;)

[DANJANOU]

Nothing better than having a piper in the field with the company. Especially one who's cammed up, full webbing and a C7 slung over his shoulder just in case.

[memphiz]

awsome :D