Recent content by Navy_Pete

Aside from hosting the reserve units and usually some cadet squads, aren't those usually also part of various emergency response plans for the areas? Not a whole lot of places where you can quarter a lot of people in short notice, and thought they had some folks sleeping there for the wildfire...

Not sure if it's helpful, but found out last year you can add 'intermediary reviewers' so that it's not going from the author all the way up the chain to the RO (potentially skipping most of the CoC). That was something the Pace manager could add on, but may have been a unit thing where they...

The story was updated about a month ago that the charges were dropped against both members, and just against DND still. Seems a lot like ivory tower prosecution from someone down south, but good news for both the CAF folks.

It's closer to the convention center, but there are already some hotels closer to the airport that are 6-8 stories, so it's all relative. Easy enough though to get 50 units in a 6-8 story building without having a huge footprint, and 8 ish units per floor seems pretty common downtown, with more...

Was talking to someone getting posted in this summer; the waiting list for priority 1 folks is over a hundred (ie more than the PMQs if everyone there gets posted out). Not keeping a lot of the land after tearing down PMQs and SQs was another huge mistake, hopefully they don't start selling off...

This is always such a horse shit approach. Usually the attrition is the people you can least afford to lose, and the peopel that get paid well to make 'placemat summaries' or 'quicklook rollup tables' or whatever other executive info graphic BS flavour of the day just keep making up colourful...

Environmental regs aside, your shouldn't paint generally unless you properlly prep and have good conditions. Otherwise you lock in salt to the coating and create rust, and the paint doesn't stick anyway or cure properly. Steel ships rust in salt water, people just need to give their nuts a tug...

That annoyed the shit outta me, seeing whales and dolphins in the middle of the ocean is amazing, but the BWKs wouldn't usually say anything because it just meant paperwork (reasonable). I told them I'd write the message as the UEnvo if they saw something during the day and wanted to make the...

Forget getting in line, in some cases they don't even want to spend money on putting in a bid because we are such a dodgy customer. On the parts side OEMs just refuse to even put in bids for small orders because the profits don't cover the bid paperwork (which is fun now that our NICP has been...

Anyone taking bets on when info on the budget impacts will filter down to us peons? I'm guessing no earlier than May 6th.

lol, get out of here. Pretending there isn't massive climate changes and calling everything climate change are two sides of the same delusional coin. Pretty hard to argue the glaciers aren't melting, sea levels aren't going up and there aren't massive changes to the weather patterns (although...

Yeah, politics is a regular bag of crazy trail mix, but the bad kind no one really enjoys eating (but some health freaks convince themselves they enjoy because they are vegan paleo cross fitters).

Cmon, like the CPC, Green Party and PQ are free of conspiracy nuts.

Today was interesting, no one is sure if this means we are actually getting some NP increases this year for ship maintenance to fund something like the massive shortfalls for the CPF DWP projects, or if it's just the budget getting 'increased' from the previous cut (so maybe a net zero or small...

They last a few weeks loitering in an area and pop up to the surface for pickup when their battery gets low that you can hand carry. Cheap easy sensor net that doesn't need underwater cables, crew rest etc., and don't weigh 15 tonnes at 20m like the Thales sail boat solution, which would need...