Recent content by Furniture

100%. He was likely briefed on the specifics, but they can't be recorded in a Pro B pers file.

Once you get outside of the safe world of international airports, the weather observing and forecasting capabilities start being a real problem. It isn't about keeping a plane in the air, it's about assessing whether or not the weather is actually workable for landings. At an international...

I don't do Air Ops stuff anymore, but what a Twotter can do with a human in the seat is far more complex than what a "drone" can do with a remote pilot. UAS operate efficiently in environments with lots of weather data. The north is the opposite of that environment. We have lots of shitty...

Yeah... I did want to out the unit, but it was a surprise when I saw the name.

Given the nature of the charges, I wonder if there is a lot more to the story. I'm looking forward to hearing more as this unfolds.

That is 90% inaccurate. The men-at-arms were heavy infantry in plate harness, the archers were a separate "type" of soldier. While it is true that the archers did eventually get into the melee, it was only after their arrows were expended or the French men-at-arms closed the gap. The archer...

You have inadvertently disproven your own argument. While the archers were important, dismounted men-at-arms were the key to victory. The English way of war beat the heavy cavalry charges of the French because the English would use field fortifications and funnel the French into the English...

Have you considered that there is a massive difference between what a warship will be tasked to do during peace-time, and during war? The talk of CDCs patrolling along the ice edge is a peace-time tasking to establish a well armed presence in the Arctic, not a description of the tactical...

There is a "plan" to have all members MCpl and up in some trades, in some regions be bilingual. There is also a "plan" to have all members WO and up BBB... Without adding extra resources to language training. If you're in and not bilingual, expect it to become a limiting factor earlier in your...

I don't think the RCN, or RCAF should be advocating for traditions to be ended... They haven't shut up about their traditions being lost/cut since 1968.

They really seem to not like their own tourism industry... Or want to isolate the American population from the rest of the world, so they can do as they please...

The people responsible for that should be on RMs at the very least. Shit "leadership" like that is exactly why people quit, and tell their friends how shit the CAF is.

That was a long time ago now. There is no way the GoC or Canadian public would go for a religious regiment in today's world.

Handy isn't the same as necessary, and money spent there is money not available to be spent where it is needed. Borrowed money or not, it adds an opportunity cost. Every dollar spent on an unnecessary hangar is a dollar not spent on needed things, like training, personnel costs, or spares to...

I suspect it was more a case of over zealous investigators looking to "catch some bad guys" rather than do their job diligently. The political and social climate at the time was very much "march in the guilty bastard", not "innocent until proven guilty", and I guessing CFNIS fell into that trap.