Recent content by Kilted

Alright, maybe I stayed up too late watching the election, but the United States never signed the 1856 Declaration of Paris. This means that we could theoretically issue Letters of Marque to protect the North West Passage and have the ultimate Stan Rogers mashup.

Now that I think about it. C Now that I think about it. Canada is a party to the 1856 Declaration of Paris via the United Kingdom. Technically speaking, the agreement was not to use privateers against other signatories. It was the Russian Empire, not the Russian Federation that signed. So...

I support this, but there might be a few concerns with international law.

It wouldn't be without precedent to create a separate service medal for CIC. There should, however, have been provisions that allow those with prior service to count their first period of time with CIC towards the CD (or the next bar if they are short). Creating an honour like this might...

That must lead to issues, especially if you end up calling 911 when they ask you not to.

Vote is starting to come in. The separatists are doing even worse than I expected. Maybe I was born at the right time that my main association with the word separatist is Star Wars.

As a Presbyterian I would say that he was predestined to go out this way. But then again, our crosses are generally lighter because we don't have Jesus on them, and we tend to be minimists when it comes to decorating, too much commettie work involved.

I miss the 522. It was a giant pain carrying it in your ruck sack with six spare batteries, but it actually worked.

Well, we could go on about Class A pay problems until Judgement Day or the problems are fixed....whichever comes first. The fact that we are still on a paper based system is crazy. When I check my pay before the end of fiscal year, there are normally five or six days that I wasn't paid for that...

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7387242 I love her comments about having firefightering equipment and support on-site. I'm not exactly sure how big a fire, a rake, a shovel, a bucket, and one fire extinguisher can put out, but it won't be a big one.

Nothing like showing up to the MIR on a Class B on base for the summer and being told "o wait, you're a reservist, we can't treat you for this."

Where does that come from?

Yeah, I'm kind of waiting for the "you shall wear a poopy vs thou shalt not wear a poppy" on uniforms before October 24th. I remember being at Nathan Cirillo's funeral being told to put a poppy on, and then being told five minutes later by someone else to take it off. That happened a couple...

Unfortunate, but not unexpected.

I haven't seen that myself, but I was expecting it.