Recent content by Weinie

Oh, but there are. To wit: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency - Canada.ca I prefer to describe it as equalization under another guise, as it seems to get lots of Maritimers to that magic number of weeks when EI kicks in. But then, I am from there, and despise what Maritimers have allowed...

I meet 4 out of those six criteria. Triage away.

Your evil polluting death machine snow blower is verboten. Yogic warming is now the mantra.

It won't be Canada that does the reckoning.

It has gone beyond arrogance. This was prima facie that China does not care what other nations think of them, they will do what they want to achieve their strategic ends. There is a reckoning coming.

Anyone else doing this would be called a POS

Are there that many differences between the first of the Halifax’s and the later ships?

Luxury

I guess that the interpretation of "goodies" has changed in the last fifty years. I will never accede to the thought that my kids should not have it better than I did.

My serial number on my FN from Cornwallis in 1983 was 0L0608. I remember the first time that my MCpl asked me for the SN, the second day of the course. I looked at him, completely befuddled, and the spent the rest of my day being "cocked" because I did not know the SN. I memorized it, and, 38 +...

Pffftttttt. I fathered a child at 55. (oh wait a minute......might have thought that one through a bit more) :cautious:

As a smaller statured member, I had stuffed squirrel right cheek every time I came off the range with the FN. But the grin on the left side of my face compensated.

I know SFA in this niche and have learned more in the last two hours than in the last 30 years. It always seemed to me that subs had an advantage based on the greater range of their torpedoes vs an ASW component. I appreciate the insight.

Sure, but correct me if I am wrong here. Many adversary sub-launched torpedoes have ranges far in excess of the Mk 46/54. If your ship is sunk, the Cyclone doesn't factor.

Yeah, but that would have led to fights in the outhouse over the Eaton's catalogue, the smaller the pictures, the less abrasive it was.