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For those interested and in the Halifax area, the MH Memorial service is tomorrow. It marks 6 years since the loss of Stalker 22. Details, from the Shearwater Aviation Museum Facebook are: For those of our community wishing to attend the MH Memorial service on Wednesday, 29 April 2026 in...

A little inside baseball, I've been doing this a long time, as have some other's on this forums in different specialties. My primary point of reference on these issues is not these forums, and my primary point of residual influence is also not here. The institutional barriers that will allow the...

I was just re-reading Leadmark 2050, and two things jumped out at me (however, I may have been reading with a biased position): the main effect it seems it has the RCN delivering is "presence," with the ability to maintain it in the face of adversary. It doesn't envision the RCN delviering...

Most things haven't changed? The PM seems to disagree: The thing that isn't yet clear is what is the Government's defintion of "blue-water," and what is the Canadian people's view on "world-wide?" Hint: there is a very strong under current saying "the world at large" is no longer our...

I don't think so... I think the government is wholly engaged elsewhere. They found a lot of money to make a particular defense problem go away for now, and they are leveraging the opportunities politically that spending it gives them, but don't have the capacity to work on that particualr policy...

I see what you did there…

Firstly, define what the policy is wrt the RCN’s focus on “Canada first.” Secondly, define (properly) the need for a Canadian Task Group and what effects that formation will deliver. Based on those two things, define how many task groups we need and can afford. If the number is lower, lower...

Doesn't really answer the asked question. It is telling that, to my knowledge, the GoC (including the minister) has not weighed in, nor have the necessary policy steps been started to get TB approval. A lot of the press coverage says something akin to "the CRCN wants..." Our system is...

I’m wondering if CRCN’s strategy is to sell it at the “defence conferences” and hope that they are able to make it political, to put the pressure onto the government to “expedite “ the PSPC and TB processes. The problem with that is it makes it personality dependent; will these things have...

Hmm, that’s not what I was getting at, but yes, you’re right. So, maybe our own lack of awareness of how “badly things are broken” and are own leaders penchant to reinforce that to divide is one of our greatest weaknesses? It’s hard to get the population to support defending something when a...

Would you agree that there are forces on “both sides of the aisle “ (but not to say in the US only) to are deliberately trying to pit us against each other in order to further their own ends? I just add a conversation elsewhere with someone telling me it’s inappropriate to establish credentials...

Well, there is a well organized push back on MMR, so I guess it should be optional for the military well, ce n'est pas?

Another bonus was carrying a light wait bag for my bag and train hopping / biking across Europe. Went all the way home (SHAPE) from Ramstein once that way. One of my few good memories from my Europe posting.

But one of those red lines is my bike trail into town…