Recent content by Navy_Pete

Wow, that's terrible, hope everyone is okay. Quick google shows Brooklyn Bridge clearance at somewhere around 130-150 feet, with the main mast alone on the Cuauhtémoc coming in at 147 feet. No Bueno.

Those are party expenses, and don't forget he has shadow cabinet members that should be looking at specific policies and departments as part of their roles. No real surprise a professional politician is just feeding at the public trough though.

He's in opposition, why would he need to be visiting ridings or making announcements on the taxpayer dime? None of that is part of his role. Also his riding was in Ottawa, so he doesn't need to travel to visit. $7.4 million is a lot of staff though.

Sure it does; it makes the difference between fighting back or being just a target. Ships built and crewed as non-combatants being sent to high threat areas is straight up negligent (but so are combatants that aren't maintained and don't meet SOLAS standards, let alone not having serious combat...

Sure, but there was decades of brutal regimes of Papa Doc and co, as well as subsequent military coups of democratically elected presidents supported by the US as it advanced their interests, so not like they weren't running with a handicap...

On the pointy head side there is actually a specific definition and has to do with whether or not you have built in combat recoverability, versus just build to commercial standards and crew it to get from A to B. There is an entire ANEP on it (ANEP 68), but it's stuck in the NATO...

It's also much worse than QC; they would lose large parts of the province, including bits of Montreal, along the St. Lawrence, and I think key parts of the power generation side, but Alberta is almost entirely covered by Treaties 6,7 and 8, and the tribes have already told them to pound sand...

I like how they think they would keep Canadian passports as a sovereign country, or that none of the treaties take precedence on territory they can claim as provincial (same as QC; the actual acknowledged land alone would leave Qc a patchwork at best).

Good thing they chose a former pilot for procurement; they get a lot of experience at it in their trade... sigh. Still better than random civvie I guess, but holy.

Most people onboard don't get spec pay though, and the ones that do get the same spec pay in a shore posting. Sea pay isn't enough to incentivize anything, just compensate a bit for the extra shifts, and work that you do at sea and alongside.

That's a terrible idea with how they calculate sea days, and it was also supposed to cover things like duty watches, flash up/shut down etc, and sounds like Mars bar perspective of what sailing preps entail, as they tend to ignore what everyone but the combat or deck dept does. Things like...

The green ones are my favourite, they taste like lime!

The 280 and AOR crews rolled over to CPFs and AOPs, as well as a lot of people just being at the end of the career and retiring, but that helped bandaid the general attrition rate we were getting. The AOPs are doing some interesting things, so don't think it's really that, but at the...

We didn't get any big recruiting push when the CPFs rolled in, and we haven't really with AOPs; the COA of hope hasn't worked for a few decades, why would it work now? We're down to a sub crew and a bit, 5 or 6 ish CPF crews, and still iffy where JSS 2 crew is coming from, with key trades still...

Not sure how Stephen Miller continues to be involved in any form of government, as he seems like a complete powerhungry necromancer, but is he seriously suggesting they are looking at suspending habeas corpus and considering they are being 'invaded'? The fact that someone in the POTUS staff is...