Recent content by Sparkplugs

It's still dangerous cargo, unless it's been properly purged and cleaned, and still needs to be declared.

You're the boss, thank you so much! I didn't look far enough back, apparently I still like to think I've only been in a couple of years now -- feels like just yesterday we got the fleece, haha! I appreciate that very much, thanks for taking the time.  :subbies:

I hate posting stuff like this, but once again, I've spent the last three hours on the DIN reading CANFORGENs and regs, and can't find what I need. I seem to remember a couple of years back, something came out about the air force fleece and aircrew wear. I remember when I was living the tech...

I was happy with the march pasts overall -- got us moving again, anyway. The best speech was the last one, "I know I'm the last guy standing between you guys and getting off of this brutally hot parade square, so I'll make this short!" and then it was almost half an hour solid.  :facepalm: Bah...

I think a lot of the wearing of 1As and the length and fanfare was because the Wing Commander was promoted from Col. to BGen shortly before the parade -- they wanted a big party. But I agree -- do the standing at attention stuf, the pennant exchange, the three march pasts and that stuff on...

That would be me, hahaha! There's a reason I'm not a big drinker, generally speaking!

I think anything less than the three hours we were out there would have been good -- as well as maybe saving the speeches from the mayor, honorary colonels, and all of the multitudes of gifts for the reception at the O Mess afterwards -- none of the people on parade were invited except the...

That was a long, hot, sweaty parade. People were taking bets to see if we'd lose more cadets or reg force people. Lost five out of our flight. A 9-hour practice day in the sun the day prior, + wool uniforms + three hours + 40 degree heat + black concrete and tons of standing at attention, it was...

Canadian, born here, as are my parents and a lot of my dad's side. Grandparents on my mom's side are straight outta Dublin Ireland, and my dad's ancestors emigrated from France to start a small town in Eastern Quebec in the late 1700's, where a bunch of them still reside.  :)

The only ones I've ever seen that were actual Tim Hortons ones, were won in Kandahar as part of their Roll-up-the-rim contests. (And no, you can't have mine, that thing took forever buying coffee to get!)  :P

I read back and don't remember seeing this posted, but whenever they next update the 265, this looks like it'll be in it, at least that was my interpretation, correct me if I'm wrong, please. Found this file with minutes from the dress meetings while I was looking for tattoo related stuff. The...

And even if you do get the Flight Steward posting, it's literally for three or four years, and then you're back to the Navy. You have to be willing to spend a long time as a Navy steward (or a cook) to even have a chance to apply for Flight Steward, and there's no guarantees, the selection is...

They got a new set of screens where the TIT/rpm/Fuel Flow/Oil Temp/Pressure guages used to sit. They're all on two big glass screens now, well, on all of them save for the last E-model. They also hard-wired the prop balance systems in and gave us a new system and program with which to do...

I think it's about a third AES Ops, a third Navs, and a third FA/MP/other. :D There are a lot of flight suits in there, hahaha, just a few of us in CADPAT.

I've seen a few who've been there forever. But I've also seen a LOT of techs get booted right at the three year mark, because we (spec pay trades) are more expensive to keep there. AMT is decent so far! Lots of Powerpoint, but we got to use NVGs today, which was new!