Recent content by RedFive

Damn. I had hoped the rank patch would be on the right arm only, the plethora of stupid patches would be done away with and the shoulder titles would go back to cloth at the top of the sleeve, if we didn't do away with them altogether. Oh well.

VPD has been pretty open about the fact the perpetrator in this case has a long mental health history with Police and they do not believe this to be ideological or terrorism based. But yeah they may be worried about opportunists I guess

To be fair I don't know if I would have made it, let alone been that good. But it was certainly a major disappointment for me to have some infantry sergeant assigned to the CFRC decide I wouldn't have what it took without even trying. Take my experience and multiply it by the entire country...

Years ago, I tried to get in to the RCAF as a pilot. CFRC told me I wasn't good enough and suggested the Reserves to "get my foot in the door". And when I say I was told I wasn't good enough, this was a conversation with a recruiter prior to any of the testing results he could have used to...

My point is its bad journalism. 90% of the article is making the case that this man was justified in killing one, and wounding two police officers and then leaves the slight caveat of, having recognized it was the police, continued to engage in a gunfight with them for a considerable amount of...

That article goes to painful lengths to try and justify the fact the accused didn't know it was police and reacted in self defence, and then in a single sentence at the very end of the story allows "After Mueller is downed in the first volley of nine rounds, Bellefeuille goes on to shoot...

Sounds good to me. Our recruiting material these days is full of two things. High speed low drag stuff like dogs, ERT, air services, marine services, etc or well dressed plainclothes members looking like they're thinking really hard looking at computer screens. The rare time a frontline member...

No reason. Just checking in, ya know? locks eyes with the nearest fellow ground pounder in disbelief

It would take a damn long time. And if the sales pitch to retain members/recruit new ones was come chase gun runners/drug smugglers/human traffickers with high powered boats/trucks/ATVs/UTVs/helicopters/aircraft I'm sure we would do just fine recruiting. Same with a lot of the other stuff we do...

Dump contract. Voila, bodies for Federal Policing.

So uh... you guys in the Navy ok over there?

That may be true, but they're the self proclaimed procurement experts (with a monopoly on the business) of the GoC. They should be fixing those poorly defined requirements by sending it back to whomever for rework before proceeding with another procurement debacle. Because they're the experts.

Have you seen our pistol procurement? :ROFLMAO: The common denominator here is Public Service and Procurement Canada. If I was king for a day I'd Elon the f*** out of them.

If I've learned anything from being in Surrey during this debacle, its that nobody, not a single person at all gives a single f*** what the people doing the actual work at the coal face think, do, or experience on a daily basis. No our own management, our union, the City, the Province, the...

Lots of good points here for sure, I can't quote them all so I'll just make some more general points. Local policing in Canada can definitely happen without the RCMP, my point here is more how does the Federal Government sell the idea of new police forces to the provinces. I think one of those...