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Question- What are they going to do with all them pertty AIM-54's?  Isn't the tomcat the only platform that uses the phoenix?

I personally like the Rangers---I have a buddy whose with the 75th, I imagine he's pretty pissed off.  I hate to see a Regiment like the Rangers have to deal with crap like this.  It's a real disgrace to have idiots like this who are associated with the Rangers really drag the name through the...

Spec-4s aren't considered NCOs.  I think the remidy is pretty easy- start promoting more PFCs and Spec-4s to Corporal, rather than simply leapfrog the rank as seems to be habitual in the US Army...they've got like entire platoons full of Specialists, it's crazy.  The corporal rank seems to have...

Wow. Japan.  The safest US occupied territory you can get (safer than the United States itself even).  It'd be more newsworthy if he visited troops in Iraq....by way of parachute drop....while engulfed in flames...while being shot at by AAA.  Frankly those are the only conditions anything...

The optimist in me says the Leafs will win a cup before the military gets some attack choppers....frankly I don't think either is likely in the near future but from a strictly timing sense, it's about damn time the Leafs won the cup again.

Note to self- never have children.  Oi.

I don't think anyone's disputing the fact that contracting is a niche market now, but it is a potentially very profitable one.  I'm looking at it mostly in the long term. Afterall, I'm sure aircraft manufacturing was a 'niche' market back in the early days of aviation.  Look at it now though.

Very true, 3rd Herd.  I think one of the more upsetting aspects of the potential 'corporate fought wars' is the idea that one doesn't even have to win the war so long as they make a profit out of it. Vietnam instantly comes to mind there...how many defense contractors made billions and billions...

Welcome to the modern world, where wars are a business like any other.  If there's a profit to be made, someone will be there to capitalize on it.  I've read a few excerpts from that book actually and it's pretty eye-opening at the state of modern warfare, and how private industry is...

Living in a PMQ patch for a better part of seven years, I can say in all honesty that Canadian Forces people are some of the best people in the world.  I mean, you seriously cannot find a group of people more courteous, helpful and friendly than the men and women who serve.  I personally noticed...

I think there's one major thing missing there- Teach them self-respect.  all that other stuff is fine, but without self-respect what good will it do?  The reason some girls get involved with crap is because they are the ones seriously lacking in that department.

Schooled.

I joined so when people ask me what my job is I can say in all truthfulness-  Government Agent.

Damn, you know that's going to leave a mark on the Rangers reputation.

"pent up pro-war enthusiasm" Good grief.  They make it sound like our Conservatives are as war-mongering as the Republicans down south.  Frankly, I don't think the Conservatives had any real motivation or desire whatsoever to participate in the Iraq war.  It's not Canada's war, so why should...

The band that got me into punk was the Misfits.  I used to hang out with a couple of punk-rocker type kids in high school, and they were really big into the 'Fits and got me listening to them.  From there on I started listening to Bad Religion and Rancid---Rancid really got me into the whole Ska...

Yes, I suppose the last thing we need is for this to turn into a political debate regarding the political views of those of the counter-culture.  Back on topic--- Speaking of the Jerks, whom I love, they are releasing a new album soon.  And did anyone check out the movie American Hardcore?  If...

I have it on good authority that Starbucks dumps battery acid in their coffee.

Hey come on man, not all Skinheads are racist pricks.  Sharpies and Red skins are some of the coolest guys I know.  And bands like Sham 69 and Cockney Rejects, who are Oi! bands, are great.  I find it personally insulting that all skinheads are erroneously grouped as being racists or on the...

Nice, I was wondering if there were any military folk out there that listened to punk rock.  Cool to see that there are.  I profess to being a bit of a punk rocker (I wonder what the guys at the RC thought of me when I walked in? I looked a little misplaced).  I'm mostly into hardcore and...