Recent content by Navy_Pete

I don't think it's an issue for the flight crew, but a lot of the maintainers in those facilities should be. A few spots have had work refusal orders on safety grounds that have been validated, and part of what drove some of these issues coming to light and got all civilians pulled from the...

Yeah, and I absolutely get the lack of funds part; the large amount of redundancy built into warships means you can have a lot of broken things and still make it work, and the surface fleet has eaten a sustained cut to O&M in the 100-200M range since Afghanistan that money won't get us out of...

Yeah, when a lot of it predates RPOps existence, and base commanders still de-prioritize RPOps work indirectly it's really not just an IE issue. On the plus side, 10 Hangar in Trenton is finally up to basic code after a few decades of not being there. Really weird to see zero downtime allowed...

I like the jenga game we're already playing with all the hangars required for the existing fleet upgrades, and feel bad for the people in IE trying to keep up with the projects. Also why I'll believe 10 Hangar in Trenton is in it's final year only when the wrecking balls are swinging...

Framing a DoD policy from 1945 as 'woke garbage from the Biden administration' is regressive. The outcome makes sense, but like a broken clock, even an incompetent drunk white supremascist like Hegseth can accidentally be get something right. He's an unqualified fraud that is winging the...

PPs own biases won't even let him take credit for it or work with them on points where there is common ground, he's just stuck in inherently oppositional mode, and just complains they don't go far enough, or someone did it wrong, when they basically implemented a CPC proposal. It would be nice...

It's crazy how much of it is being used for chips to support AI farms, so people can do critical things like make fake videos of dancing cats or basic work functions they are supposed to be capable of. It's a non-renewable resource, so kind of wild it's being blown off on really stupid things...

So Iran is supposed to be laying mines in the Strait, that the USN has total control over? This is very Gulf war era Sadam defence minister kind of doublespeak.

You can see it on the marine traffic sites; they may turn off their AIS for some of the transits, but if a ship goes from one side to the other with a dropped track for part of it, pretty clear indication. Usually you have to pay to see the actual tracks though. There is an insane amount of...

Sure, and probably no one size fits all plane regardless. I think a few of the 19 were places like Hamilton airport that are within the normal daily GTA commute radius., and included Pearson where they would depart from, so really only had about 15 or 16 actual destinations you might use it for...

Yes, because it's an ideological change. The what isn't a big deal, it's the 'why'. Also, the posturing as Department of War will always be hilarious when that's not the actual name until authorized by Congress.

One thing that was pointed out is that due to the size of it, that jet could only land in 19 of the 179 airports in Ontario, and those are ones that are already well serviced. So if they actually wanted a jet to travel Ontario and see the communities, they should have gone with something...

Maybe next this guy will cut fruit and other sources of vitamin C from the menu, so sailors can experience the joy of scurvy like it's the age of sail again. That will distract them from multiple deployment extensions with no return home date. Not sure when 'conservative' became 'regressive'...

Part of me likes the innovation funding programs like IDeas, but is also driven nuts by how hard it is to just adopt existing technology with a proven record, when they through money (and resources) at things that are still in developmental technology stage, and most don't ever become...

I've never been able to nap like that, and generally take a while falling asleep, but one thing I found that helped was box breathing; basically a form of meditative breathing. If I relax enough to fall asleep, awesome, if not I still slow things down and unwind. Put a link below; I sometimes...