Recent content by Navy_Pete

Maritime law has a lot of pretty whacky things still fully on the books from centuries ago, so this might actually be comparatively fine. Some enthusiastic teens trying to board a huge ship from a sailboat armed with polite words would be a good story anyway.

From a practical perspective, I don't really care if Cadets join the CAF at all; it's an excellent youth program to keep them busy and learn new skills, particularly where they don't have to worry about the cost of anything. It's available in communities where Scouts/Guides isn't even a thing...

Everytime I've seen someone look at the performance outcomes between RMC and ROTP graduates, they've found no difference in officer performance over a career. DEOs tend to join later in life, and a lot of SCRITs or succession management plans had time until CRA as a factor, so isn't necessarily...

As an aside, that's one part of the report that doesn't make sense, as the wildfire experts use 10% of the windspeed as a rule of thumb for spread speed on a wind driven fire in trees, and 20% in grasslands, which was validated by a number of real incidents. I can't run 10% or 20% of a 100 km/h...

From a few other large fire investigations, there is typically an initial, fairly comprehensive push to figure out the timeline and the major factors, then follow up work to figure out and validate specifics (which may include full scale fire experiments). That will likely continue past the BOI...

The funny thing about all of this is the now VCDS specifically told the major program doing northern infra that the RCN doesn't want any support equipment for the NOSH sites. The CCG has a laundry list of things that we could also use, but absolutely does not include the H2 and LOx required for...

Is this Rath thinking this will keep him out of jail and able to go to the US? WIth the way things are going he won't be allowed across the border as a felon if he tried immigrating. His pain is entirely self afflicted, and the difficulties he's looking at fill me with the warm glow of...

Don't forget a thief, liar and fraud. He's currently facing a civil suit for stealing millions from FN clients (via falsisfied invoices with impossible amounts), was somehow not disbarred and only fined for misconduct by the Alberta bar, and now being sued for $112M in the US for fraud.

Yes, I was thinking of the 'search and rescue' portion, less the primary care, and with all the cuts to provincial health care can see trying to surge and divert resources to a mass casualty is a challenge even for major cities. Sure things like the mutual aid agreements will get looked at for...

Thanks, that makes sense. The initial CASEVAC must have been all hands on deck, even with resources coming in from Edmonton etc.

Maybe a dumb question, but what do the SARtechs bring to the table in this kind of scenario? Search and extraction from a fire area is a core firefighter job function that does need some training and equipment that the SAR techs don't have, so if more resources were needed there are a lot of...

The stuff that gets picked up by internal review of the infra projects by DND SMEs frequently falls into this category, and almost makes me miss working on the NSS files. Not just structural, but plenty of basic errors on fire, electrical, mechanical and others where things don't meet basic...

The only options for that that really make sense to me is that the whole thing was either a money laundering operation designed to fail, or he's just a complete idiot surrounded by idiots. The people around him seem reasonably intelligent, and find it hard to believe he could interfere with day...

So.... connect the East coast to the existing natural gas grid within Canada, increase our internal refineries and otherwise pull ourselves out of integrated utility supply with the US? We're a net exporter of all of that now, and the connections with the US are from convenience. We still make...

He's only 238 if he's 4'tall unless they are using metric afterall. He looks north of 280, even with tailors working miracles to hide his gut. In any case, I think it's some self harm on both sides, but I think an export tax on energy and minerals that goes into the fund to help offset all the...