Recent content by Edward Campbell

Oh, my goodness ... But, OK, here are some thoughts about how I wish I had lived ... Be kind, it's not too hard, it doesn't hurt, it doesn't even take all that much effort ... Try to do what's "right" - right for you and right for others, too ... Be honest, especially in your dealings with...

I agree; I am approaching the end of my life, and while I can look back on several things about which I am happy and even proud (and a few about which I am not), my two sons and now my grandsons are the best thing that ever happened to my late wife and me, by far.

I agree with you that RAMD (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability & Durability) should be a fully developed section of every SOR, but, in my experience - very, very out of date - it was rarely even mentioned. The two exceptions were the CPF (RAdm Ed Healey wrote the SOR) and the CF-18 (BGen...

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We need to remember that this is Canada's overall political alignment:

Canada has not awarded a VC since the 2nd World War. Every other country that has the VC has awarded them several times. I think that the problem starts and ends within Canada's military bureaucracy - Canadian Forces colonels, commodores, generals and admirals. I believe ( no proof) that there...

Great, and I have a candidate in Ottawa Centre

Johnny Stubbs was a hellluva sailor - much admired by his colleagues for his leadership and his seamanship. It's a pity that Canada has pushed aside heroes and leaders like Murray and Stubbs.

Québec has enough seats to decide if a party wins a majority or minority.

I'm very, very old, but: consistent life-cycle-costing and 'management' ( and the word consistent - across gov't, not just within the military - matters Hugely) is the ONLY sensible way to plan. Things like 'bathtub curves are very real and everyone needs to understand them and plan for them.

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Deeply sad to report the death of BGen (Ret'd) Phil Spencer, The RCR:

We did, once. it began with a public and fairly well publicized policy statement in 1947 by the then Minister of External Affairs (foreign minister) and continued when he became prime minister. It was fiddled with - on anti-American and anti-nuclear grounds - but broadly supported by his...

I was at a big international radio conference in Geneva a few years ago ... a small subset of the CCEB (5👁️) + NATO team was having an informal meeting in a pub when our very senior German civilian member (about a senior ADM level in our bureaucracy) banned acronyms and most abbreviations...

🪖 Helmets on: war story ... Back in the 1970s and '80s we and the Brits had a multi-stage PRes (:cdn:Comm Reserve) (🇬🇧TAVR) augmentation system. The 🇨🇦 Comm Reserve was formally tasked to augment Regular Force fixed communications units which would then send regulars to field units. There was...