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This is a much better idea than the corvettes, provided they are fully crewed by the naval reserves and maintained by ISSC. Crewing the Orcas, MCDVs etc with reg for Martechs caused a lot of strain and we don't have people to spare. They broke a few electricians that were on a 'shore posting'...

The actual billets don't transfer either as the numbers are different; we're losing a lot of MSE billets but the ops room and whatever the CSEs look like under AEGIS is a massive increase. Which should reduce some of the pressure with the martech death spiral, but still short of what we need to...

At the time lots of blue collar workers weren't unionized, even in the trades, and even more now as most unions have shot themselves in the foot by being an opponent to the employer (vice a representive of the workers to ensure they get fair treatment). I saw the absolutely dangerous shitpumps...

Criminal cases against ex-FBI director Comey, Letitia James dismissed in blow to Trump administration Lindsey Halligan was improperly appointed to U.S. attorney role in Virginia, judge rules repost on CBC of the AP story https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-va-case-dismissed-james-comey-9.6990482...

Which is wild; I miss the NDP that was made up of farmers, unions and other blue collar workers, and would absolutely vote for someone like that with some common sense, fiscal responsibility and focus on getting things done without complicating things. There is way too much that should be niche...

I sure did, that's my superpower, sorry. The delta training can be pretty intense though; normally can take 6-12 months for some packages.

That's pretty standard, and we had the same between CPFs and 280s. Some quals are far more platform specific, so LOE for the delta training will vary. The RCD requirements will be hugely AEGIS dependent for training, and for the ops room team may include specific collective training...

On the east coast they were built overseas; they got an Build in Canada exemption.

And build them where, exactly? Could maybe be done in VSY, but depends on the size if it will fit as a lot of ferries are bigger than JSS, but huge difference if it's an aluminium hull, and their order book if full for the near future. Same reason the fast cat ferries were built overseas; there...

For sure, just seems like they had a series of really bad years to end up in northern Scotland. @Remius Do you suppose early Scottish settlers were following a particularly confused group of sheep, and that sparked the legend of the wee hairy haggis?

What kind of blows my mind about that is people left somewhere really warm, went past places that were equally warm and fertile, went past areas that were less warm and still fertile, then kept going until they hit essentially the end of the earth and settled in a wet, cold place where it's...

Maybe it's a new retention strategy; make VAC so unpalatable that you delay release because you don't want to deal with them. There have been worse ideas implemented!

Yup, like posh dictators. I find them okay, but do think the giant, flat brim looks very soviet and fee the urge to join a proletariat uprising, and also very top heavy so even though it's on tight it flops around and off fairly easily, so takes the jaunty tilt off the table. I found the old...

A number of them make some kind of donation to the legion, and when you think of what they actually make on a $1 donation or whatever for a poppy it doesn't have to be much. Plus you don't end up with tonnes of cheap plastic ones littering the ground because they fall off so easily, and the...

Perhaps, but it's a lot more real when you can literally see them. If we had Russia instead of US on our southern border, we would likely all have rifle lockups and well equipped armouries in near proximity, as well as a CAF very focused on defending territory on home soil vice deploying...

Sure, but Sweden and Finland have been working very closely with NATO, even leading working groups that feed into doctrine, system designs and tactics for decades. This was less about them wanting to join, and NATO stopping to pretend that keeping a neutral ring of unaligned countries on the...

That's a fair bit ancient history; frontier defence was generations ago and has been irrelevant for 100 years, and there was plenty of Nazi and Communist support in Canada and the US (and UK and other European countries). For most Canadians that threat dissapeared in the mid 1800s, and wars are...

One side effect of ITAR and how the US applied it in the past is we actually considered having ITAR equipment as a negative scoring factor for equipment selection on non-combatants previously. That didn't happen, only because the mid life refits on the MCDVs got cancelled, but we had enough...

Humming that while the ship is at emergency stations during a workups while sea training is there is not a recommended COA. Sub-Lieutenant Clive Carrington-Wood of HMS Sheffield starting to sing that while in the water with the rest of the crew watching the ship sink after having been given the...

Built in optimism? That tends to get taken to far though in risk acceptance, making Pollyanna look like Debbie downer. You can dependably make fun of them in the playoffs I guess when the Leafs choke I guess, but not really any real upsides. Plus if the Leafs ever win a cup again they will be...