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At least it's only a $10 fee and not an absolute cash grab like the $40+ for a papr birth certificate copy that you're not allowed to laminate and gradually crumbles forcing you to spend a grand total of 10 x $40 = $400 in your life for a total of one 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

New polls today show the Liberals and Cons are essentially tied, after the Cons starting the summer with a double digit lead.

To hit the tennis ball of karma back in your court, when you say "any vehicle" can leave a track you're of course excludingthe wonder vehicle that is the helicopter, right  ;) Now you can say "But yes, even those get shot down those and cost $100m when they do", which is when I say "Exactly...

Thuc, Great link, thank you. As someone joked about earlier though, sadly the end result of that 16 pounds in weight savings will probably not mean 16 less pounds on the soldiers' spines, but 16 pounds of room to carry other things. I always imagine those VC you see in movies, covering 50km...

BV206s are a phenominal vehicle, no question about that.  I remember from the Science and Tech OPME where they covered every vehicle's displacement ratings (contact patches vs weight and a few other factors)...basically the BV206's rating number was off the charts because it's so light and...

Haha, is that the one I gave you?  (That the guy in the office beside you gave me). PS - The LAV is great, I admit, but stop giving the thing a reach-around already!  ;)  We get it, you think it's the answer to everything...

Bin Rat and 57C, Great replies, thank you for digging up the info. I wasn't trying to be a Devil's Advocate, I was genuinely curious about what happened with the small percentage of people who got better. Cheers.

Techno, I have the in-depth weight comparison at work and I'll send it to you tomorrow. They go very in depth with each system, how much X amount of fire missions would weigh, and what effect that would have on the enemy, etc.  It's a good write-up, but as stated what I don't like about it is...

I think Haiti is a perfect example of where lighter skin vehicles could make their comeback. Little to no mine/IED threat is ideal. More face time = less threat overall in the long term, too.

I would also counter with our tactics occasionally being adapted to making ourselves fixed in place to form a firebase and waiting for the fast air / UAV to do the killing for us.

Multiple things to answer here... DAP, saying they increase our vulnerability is a non-starter unless you are doctrinally stating that no soldiers should ever move dismounted anywhere from now on because we are too soft.  All of the other requirements you listed are basically insignificant, as...

I insist that the bigger problem is that we for some completely retarded reason do not utilize ATVs in the CF. An ATV with a trailer or a side-by-side could easily move these things around the battlespace where they could be set up.  Not just these, but anything, be it a 50 cal, water, a...

I am fairly certain that the new version of SARP2 (broken into three parts to be managed easier) is going the direction that you're talking about. We in ABCA certainly talk among our peers, I can personally vouch for that. Every once in a while I'll get an e-mail that started off from a very...

Absolutely, but the way I understand it (I have gone though a lot of the website) they base percentages of disability on many factors including pain, loss of mobility, etc. So in your example, say someone has a muscular chunk of their leg shot off, and when he is assessed he can't run or walk. ...

Maybe that's where the GMG / CASW / C16 / AGLS comes in?  I know that a near miss with a LAV is going to put some heads down (or off), but as mentioned in the other thread (beat to death) maybe that's why we have many overlapping capabilities.

RG, As you mentioned, the problem isn't necessarily the range and accuracy part, and a lot of guys in my Cell were actually hitting consistently from 700m (and nobody could hit anything at 800m).  Conditions were perfect with no wind. The problem I'm worried about isn't necessarily joules on...

That answers my question, thank you. So you can get paid more if you get worse but not paid less if you get better.

We're a giant green monster, give us time to adapt!  We're just finally getting frang training ammo in the Reg Force. You're preaching to the converted that some newer cool stuff exists, but I don't think any of that is worth SFA without NATO/USA making a choice in that direction first. Until...

Which is the first thing I wrote a couple posts ago  ;) My question was for the minority.

With the pitiful amount of shooting nowadays, lots of soldiers can't hit a 12" group from the 10m CQB firing line.