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Horse doesn't taste that bad when cooked properly. Then again, the various comments about WW2 equipment coming out....well....the last major world army that relied on horses as a primary means of transport and supply was the German army of WW2...so...yeah...there's that to consider. We've...

I was holding onto the handles of the Aft Gyro (doing rounds at sea) when we took a 42 degree roll on CHA back in the 90s.

The words I use in polite conversation are 'criminal' 'incompetent' and 'willful deliberate sabotage' - and I've got the examples that I've seen with my own eyes to back that up. I was once headhunted by staff on the CSC project - I was...blunt....in expressing that I have too much pride in...

No more storms like this then...?

Which is part of why I left the Navy. Ponder the $5Mil worth of steel sitting on the tarmac at Shearwater that was returned from ISI from the MLR - they ran out of time in the refits to install that steel. How much of it still needs replacing...and how much worse has it gotten since it was...

When the Canadian Army did an 'Ops Tempo Pause' during the Afghanistan War, that was an Army only thing. The RCN did not pause. The Navy never said "no" or - "we need a break". The thing about it is, if the RCN stops saying 'yes' to deployments, and stops sending ships when the GOC...

So....when I was a Senior Instructor at CFNES, I had 12 MS/PO2 working for me. I could support 6 classes of sailors under training, with 2 instructors per class, giving me a safety person when required for doing training on systems, I had depth to send my instructors on training, help develop...

That's certainly thinking outside the box in terms of training platforms.

Go back to the company out west that made the Orcas, put in an order for a few more. Continuous production cycle, one a year for the next X years....then they can move some into the Great Lakes, and maybe push some out to NRDs that could use and support them - Charlottetown, etc. Once you've...

Just after the last time we heard about their Bayraktars? Actually, I heard about them a while back when one of them shot down 6 incoming missiles/UAVs in a single mission. "Too close - switching to guns...."

Almost exactly 20 years since we lost LS Leblanc on MON during NATO 05. Rest peacefully sailor.

We still have the explainer poster about menopause in the male washroom here at work. Then again, maybe it's not a bad idea for men to understand what their spouses/SO's are facing in life. I'll observe I haven't seen a tampon dispenser here though.

The theoretical capability of our current ships is much better. Harpoon, CIWS, ESSM, MASS, Sea Sparrow, CH149. Compared to Sea King, 3"50, SRBOC, and maybe Limbo. How are the crews? Definitely not as relaxed as they show there...I suspect overworked, overtired, and definitely no where near...

Where are you located? Edit to add - I see you're likely in Montreal based on recruiting center location posted in another thread. In your course Joining Instructions, there should be contact details for course staff (near the end of the main part of the JI's) I will suggest asking your...

FMFCB in Esquimalt used to have machine tooling to manufacture naval gun barrels - until about 4 years ago when it was disposed of. Maybe we should get back into that game.

Puncher is starting to look the part... 1/144 scale, just over a meter long:

Amateurs practice until they get it right. Professionals practice until they cannot get it wrong. Work at being a professional. Coming on here to mope about it won't help you. You could be doing weapons handling drill practice instead, which will help you pass.

On the Gatineau in '95, we snuck up behind a tanker - less than 300 yards away at night following them to get closer to a US CVN. We got to about 80 miles, then started a 'sprint' towards them. As I recall, for 'exercise' purposes, we were given an 8 pack of Harpoons which we 'fired' at CPA -...

Those 'websites' as prohibited weapons were actually AR-15.com Lower receiver group buys with the Lowers marked as AR15.com. It's not a mistake. It's someone attempting to capture every possible type of AR lower receiver in their ban.

Purported to be a text with details from the air crew - read by an AI Voice over, but sounds - legit. Ish.