Recent content by Grimey

George Cairns.

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

This guy certainly doesn’t get enough. One of four VC recipients from BC during the war, and the only Vancouver Islander: https://burmastarmemorial.org/vc-major-charles-hoey The VC citations for the Burma Campaign are truly epic. Two were awarded after the recipients were either run through or...

For true trigger porn, there’s a few videos where he’s teamed up with the Forgotten Weapons guy.

The RN evaluated SHINMACs as it was referred to back then, back in 1985. Remember the blue paper back RN engineering journals? We used to get issued those in the late 8os/early 90s, even on the old sweepers. Lots of good post-Falklands analysis stuff. Here's a link to the '85 evaluation...

Yep, probably worse to some extent. Price of urban real estate/cost of living has extended the latte sippers’ influence due to urban sprawl. No better example for this than Squamish. More like North/West Vancouver than the Squamish of even twenty years ago. My aunt and uncle who had been...

With socks. Not that I’ve tried. To your point though, urban and rural BC may as well be different countries.

True enough, but a pound off Folgers would also get you something machined/welded/painted without a work order. That was a loooong time ago :)

With two trumped 280s on the west coast from 1995 onwards, there was only a crew and a half for both with only one at high readiness. If both were at sea, it was local waters only and I only remember that happening once. Having HUR decommissioned and tied up in 2000 with a skeleton crew...

Like the Lee Grants. Instantly obsolete when the Sherman came out, but better than anything Mutaguchi had. Battle winner at Imphal/Kohima after the DC3s.

Maybe producing the Battle of the Admin Box with a focus on this local lad would be doable, if the Aussie Kokoda film is the template: Charles Ferguson Hoey - Wikipedia. incidentally, I now find myself reading everything on Slim, 14th Army and the Burma Campaign in general.

The likeness is uncanny. Wonder if they have the same taste in white bread, toasted, dry, with nothin' on it.

Someone probably was grinding an axe for 25+ years from when they did something stupid as a subbie and got corrected by the cert 3 on watch or something, and has basically screwed the RCN for a generation. Cough.......Ron Lloyd.....cough.

"......adding he was popular with local women."