Recent content by SeaKingTacco

Yeah. What were we thinking…..

I would just like to make it clear that I did not watch overtime. Now a best of 3 series and 2 of those games are in Edmonton…

Nope. Don’t blame me. I was doing yard work.

In my experience, you just need to have served 2 calendar years (not parade days).

On youtube, look at vasaviation. Around 10:28, you can see a black dot just below the fuselage. I think that is the RAT.

That was a fun morning…it only took about 200 of us to get back onboard.

One of the videos actually shows the RAT deployed.

Oh, come on now. What are the odds of a ship completely losing power and drifting for days?

The plan I saw envisioned a container that the RHIB could at least tow back to the ship and then the crane would bring it to deck level.

Mid-ocean paradrops of critical parts to a ship is not a crazy idea. I have come close to needing that on a couple occasions.

I was today years old when I learned the TACO reference….

Yup. And takes little more than additional reporting while they are sailing around.

Putting the Coast Guard under MND does not mean necessarily putting Harpoons on Coast Guard ships. It may, it in fact, mean very little change to how the operate, day to day. But, even if the Government decides to fully militarize the Coast Guard, that ain’t a Union call. Managers have the...

Maybe. I think of all sorts of containerized mission packages that, all they have to do is put them them on the back of their ships and sail around a piece of ocean that we tell them to.

I can definitely think of ways of using the Coast Guard to support the CAF in a manner that would be extremely useful, but would not overly change how they operate on a day to day basis.