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I don't know how many times I'd heard this very thing in Command CPO/CWO meetings of putting people in for the MSM/MSC/MMM that weren't Senior NCO's or Officers...in fact, this was a direction coming from NDHQ, yet it seemed the goal posts for those awards were always different for a "normal...

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The layout I saw had rocket pods and I want to say there was a gun pod...the Strikemaster has/had 7.62mm GPMG's internal and could put gun pods on the hardpoints. I remember reading an account of how those guns helped save an SAS detatchment in a little town in Oman in the 70's.

I remember many years ago seeing a Tutor in CAF livery with the full weapons suite laid out like for a kit inspection - was I. believe, to be based off the BAC Strikemaster or the Cessna A-37 Dragonfly...or they were based off the Tutor 🤷‍♂️ .

Use the retiring Snowbird Tutors

Makes sense, most of the stuff I'd seen had been US...the main issues being the choppers having to land in areas with tight nets of high voltage lines and such with minimal night vision equipment. I kind of laugh at the "Trauma Flight" folks in Island Lake - didn't take them much not to fly...

Did that after a SAREX in '98 IIRC - which was made all the more somber (and drunker) by the fact that a SAR Labrador out of Greenwood crashed in Gaspe, killing the whole crew. I seem to recall there was a time when being a medevac crew in North America was considered one of the top 10 most...

Pretty sure they do, just never actually seen one identified as such.

I remember helping transfer a patient from KGH to the airport when doing routine ride alongs with Kingston EMS - didn't have bariatric stretchers then (around 1999/2000 IIRC) and the security straps wouldn't stretch - I basically secured the patient to the airevac cot and ambulance stretcher...

That they are...because of the difficulty transporting them emergently. If they're in need of ALS care or greater, an ALS paramedic or critical care RT goes as medical escort.

Bariatric = Mr Creosote/disc popping...Barometric=ear popping The pink "Technical Transport Unit" , so as not to advertise it's a bariatric patient. I thought when I first saw that rig it was the paediatric/neonatal critical care transport unit.

Was $350 when I was in Portage la Prairie in 2011...without the mileage tacked on.

They're frequent visitors to YWG...the bird parks often near one of the air ambulance carriers at my end of the airport.

More often than not, if you go to LotWH in Kenora, if you need specialist care urgently, you go to Winnipeg - it's the nearest cath lab, stroke centre and trauma surgery facility, as well as pediatric and ICU care...