Recent content by Colin Parkinson

Had a model of this class, always loved them. I can't say that the path to get the helicopter out of the hanger looks optimal!

A number of gays I know are done with the movement and their drift into insanity. All they wanted was equality, equal benefit for their spouse and not get beat up. The original movement achieved that, but the new leadership needs a hill to fight on.

For those of you that love Centurion stuff.

The French might consider leasing as being part of a FU to the US. As for Martin and his his Defense Minister Bill Graham, they started the trek out of the dark era.

The French might lease us some Rafels to try out.

Meanwhile some S3 is walking around with a open can of antiseize and plastering it on anything that might need it.....

We will have a lot less problems with immigration if we had a better sieve at the entrance, you are not going to get all of them, but you make them very much a minority. Have them sign and understand what they are signing: Women have equal rights as men Islam has no legal standing in Canada...

In a 50 Cadet sized unit, the 3 CIC's spend 85% of their time doing administration. Myself and another Civilian Instructor do the vast majority of hour by hour supervision/training on training nights.

The truck above would be typical

The Bay Class are very optimized for bad weather SAR, not the best choice for multi-purpose in my opinion. Updating and running your plans through a CPX and then shelving then is the utter bottom floor on the response curve. It makes people feel like something has been done. But in my...

I suspect that all currency exchange places are suffering, with the rial in freefall, a short delay in exchanging currency, could have major impacts

Don't know if the Armour corp did it for their tanks, but in the artillery, we used to have to regularly slap Varsol and oil on the vehicles and guns to preserve them, which gave them a nice sheen, till you went into the field and then dust clung to it.

When Harper's government amended the Canadian citizenship guide to include such things as "Woman's rights", age of consent, no female genital mutilations and other aspects of Canadian culture, it was derided as being "unCanadian". The reality is that for the most part, a lot of the people coming...

One reason why I want harbour defense and patrol delegated to the local Naval Reserve unit. They will get to know the area, the resources available, go on exercises with local authorities, etc. Those local exercises are excellent at identifying gaps, when we did them with the airport for a major...

The EU desperately needs Brexit to fail, hence so much effort and money to do that. Helped by useful Idiots in the UK parliament that also want it to fail, rather than accepting the decision and trying to make it work.