Recent content by Grimey

The result of fifty plus years of the education system (and HS guidance counsellors in particular) pushing Uni as the be all-end all and trades (or god forbid - the CAF) being something you did if you were thick. I doubt this view has substantially changed.

In Aden, my old man had a preference for RN Wessex rather than Crab Wessex. Something about them actually showing up.

It’s not always the lifer thrice married types either. I had a young guy who had half his pay check going to crap he’d bought at the CANEX on their payment plan, only to hock it in downtown Victoria for drug and booze money.

How’s your new guy working out? He seemed a good catch.

A long-held senior NWO desire to destroy the ‘Stoker Mafia’. . . Well, there’s likely a lot more to it than that since the short-sighted training material purge affected more than Mar Eng, but that’s the general consensus of my conspiracy theory peers who saw it all happen.

I was a Lorne Scots cadet. Does that count?

Well, she did survive the local mass cull of 2001.

I have. I agree with Halifax Tar. I was his CERA on ALG for 18 months. He was a mission-focused go-getter with no tolerance for bullshit. He had a lot of time for the MSE department, more so than any other CO I’ve served under. As a department, we had a ‘splice the main brace’ under him at...

Is this the one going up next to the 4 Mile?

Seeds for this were sown decades ago. I’m a 1985 Ontario Grade 13 grad. I could have left in ‘84 after Gr. 12, but feeling fairly listless it made sense to stick around for the extra ‘free’ year of school. What I wasn’t expecting was to be force-fed how important a uni education was by the...

I blame the ‘peacekeeping myth’ for much of that as it applies to the public’s view of most things military.

I guess you never saw Star Blazers as a kid. Surcouf is just being a Yamato walt.

George Cairns.

Yes!! Shady tree mechanics make a comeback. Oh wait, would wrenching under a tree lead to a fine?