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Sigh. They are taking the piss out of you, OP. Here is what happened; they lost their green toques. You want a new one? Fill out an LSR/MLR. That takes time and is too much trouble, so they took their so-dark-green-it-looks-black DEU toques. Lose that, no biggee, you can order two a year from...

My understanding is that ATACMS is a rather slow and ballistic trajectory missile, would that not be rather easy to shoot down with any point defense system?

I have my BA, but it's in social sciences, so it's worthless. Don't get me wrong; I did my best, but I wasn't smart enough to go into STEM and I love history. I got my degree in "military sciences" with an aim to getting my commission and following my interests (was assured it would work by the...

I think they should have at least warned me this was a possibility. I asked last week about Civilians and I was told directly; "No chance". It wasn't a case of work or no work, it was what length of contract they could get me. It was explained to me the draw of civilians *was* continuity. Which...

This is what kinda gives me hope; the demand is real in our shop (Clothing). We're barely managing with four class-B and 2 class-A guys who come in twice a week for the day. We were keeping pace under a huge backlog of work with 6 Class-B. Me and another guy are affected by this (He just bought...

I'm not sure. I've known my contract that I'm on now was ending yesterday since day 1 of the contract. But I was assured first that following that I would come back in after the weekend and get a 3 year contract. Then it became a 6 month when that didn't materialize (Sorta what *THIS* is; the...

So I found out yesterday that instead of a longer contract, my job is being civilianized. I should get an 89 extension to get me through the holidays, but after that nothing is certain; probably not getting the 6 month contract that was on their radar until yesterday. Issue is this: They...

Ah, the Congo; the first time the UN showed it's true colours and crushed a legitimate independence movement in favour of an utter mess of a dictatorship, which they could control and benefit from. Looks like a good movie, but I'll assume they make the mercs unnecessarily evil. Reading about...

Anyone else catch the recent CBC radio show about how being politically incorrect is a cover for hate and wrong-think?

Well, Lav 3 was called "Kodiak" but it never seemed to stick. Question; does putting the throttle all the way down automatically constitute ramming speed on this vehicle? Nice to see our engineers are still on the hoof though, but we'll have to be careful to sort the sheep from the goats as...

City-states would not help us. We need to change the fact that our governments at the federal and provincial level are chosen by the special interests inherent in a few large cities and the rest of us be damned. What we'd need to do is find a way to severely reduce the impact of the votes of...

Lesser Evils, but you raise a good example. In 2013, the Egyptian army waged a coup to keep the Muslim Brotherhood from gaining power, despite a democratic election (allegedly). I'm not saying they are saints, I'm just saying almost anything is better than radical Muslims running nations and a...

There are a whole series of articles on this subject (Great Enlisted Men the author knew while he was in), they are all supposed to be truthful and frankly, knowing what i do about American Laws and the US Army; this one, I believe.

I'm a huge Tom Kratman fan and I eagerly read his articles and books. Recently read this one; http://www.everyjoe.com/2016/06/27/politics/great-enlisted-men-ferocity/#1 Awesome series of articles, btw. Here is the relevant snippet; “Platoon Sergeant, what has Richt been up to? I haven’t seen...

Because different cultures and different ethics. I'm not arguing for moral relativism, I'm saying the ground truth in Turkey is not the same as in Canada. There are many military's with a coup tradition and each is different. The Turkish army has a tradition dating back to Ataturk of acting in...

And just how much use of the "Modular" aspect will we be allowed at the bottom level?

I think if there are incentives like this, then we will be going back to the nonsense of standards on how every part of the FORCE test is done. Oh yeah? You only *thought* you picked that sandbag up, propperly; but your back wasn't totally straight, so I docked you twelve sandbag lifts; you...

Sounds like we want to live up to the performance of decades-old G5 with long-range shells.

What are those two movies about? Are they any good?

So i managed to secure a copy of this very cool movie recently and I loved it! What a cool movie! For those who don't know; Power Play was a feature film based (loosely) on Edward Lutwak's book; Coup de Tat (also a very cool book). The film is about (duh!) a coup de tat and get this; it stars...