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Yup...

They forgot the last one - where the truck "dun blowed up REEEEAAAALLLL GOOOOD!!!"

PTL = Pass That Loot... I hear one day Tammy went to get a makeover and when they sandblasted all the war paint off her face, they finally found Jimmy Hoffa...or so I'm told...

Ornge flies into the Peg all the time from Kenora and other places - as you say, trauma, Cath lab for heart attacks, paediatrics, neurosurgery are closer than going to Thunder Bay.

I'm sure there are more than a few private carriers though...in areas outside of Ontario, there are often carriers contracted to the provinces - I want to say I can think of 5 or 6 off the top of my head that supply air ambulance services to where I work...and if I had my say, they'd all be...

I liked Frank's as well - just easier to find smaller sized Tobasco bottles in those days. I remember the MRE sized ones when getting the MRE's off Americans - I seem to recall they were in most of the packets.

One of the issues with career reservists, especially Army one's with no Class C service, they're kinda really ignorant of what the rest of the military does and that some trades span the 3 uniforms and sometimes ones you wouldn't expect to be in a theatre working are there for whatever reason...

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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...