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Thats a great way to bring back second class status for single members without children....

My DNA results confirmed the family stories... Mostly Scottish, with a lot of English, a bit Irish and a touch of the "norse" countries(1%) like all the British.

100% agree. It's one thing for Timmy to go around telling people he's a "viking" because his family is supposed to have come from Denmark. It's entirely a different thing to go around claiming "viking" ancestry, and declaring themself an expert in large part because of ancentry, to make money...

Fair, but if one is staking their professional credentials on being of a particular heritage, you'd think that if they were honest, they'd do a bit of genealogy first... Otherwise it appears that the intent is to spin the yarn, and hope nobody calls it out.

There are a lot more financial incentives to pretend to be native than to pretend to be a veteran.

It exists because people at the top don't think it's important enough to fix. It's the same reason base housing has been allowed to become a shitshow.... Leadership allowed services to decline because 20 years ago times were better, and and members were seeking commercial options for daycare...

Combined with other efforts that have had a large impact on tourism, it is not a small thing. The US is already expect to lose billions in tourism this year, so adding fuel to that fire seems like a bad idea.

It's a good thing the CAF has it's own weather service, that can keep the fleets updated on any weather of concern.

I'm suggesting that it will be spun that way. It's not like the CAF doesn't have a history of rigging competitions to favor a particular platform.

Or CBC presenting a chart that makes it look like the competition was rigged to favor the F-35...

Citidiots with no concept of how dangerous weather can be.

I heard it directly from the CRCN's mouth as a member of naval staff, so it's not just hearsay.

You're right, as a sailor I am not in the air weapons community... Brilliant observation. Being "less scripted" doesn't mean it isn't, and even the article you posted highlighted the fact the exact nature of the rules and the level of support from the F-22 wasn't disclosed. So 20:1, while...

That ignores the reality that the latest 4.5 Gen fighters have similar sensor and EW capabilities, and are simply more detectable by some radars. Radar cross section(RCS) is not the advantage it was 20 years ago, and as time goes on lower RCS will likely continue to lose effectivness. FTFY...

How do you come to that conclusion? Ice strengthened hull is not nearly the same as an ice breaker. The MCDV roles are being spread across the AOPVs and the plan to contract civilian OSVs. Endurance, speed, and range aren't particularly crew intensive, unless you run the ships like a ship...

So in a simulated combat situation, with undisclosed rules(often set to make the "good" guys win), in concert with F-22s, the F-35 is really good. How is that relevant to Canada? NORAD isn't a first strike command. Canada doesn't integrate into the USAF in that way to hit enemy targets. It's...

So similar to former RCAF officers who were "wined and dined" by LM while in uniform, and who then went to work for them afterwards?

New ships tend to lower the number of people not waiting to sail. Living conditions are better, and there are less breakdowns of systems like fresh and black water.

That is a disingenuous comparison. Canada has multiple aviation manufacturers, we have zero submarine manufactures. We have aviation expertise, what we don't have is specific expertise in military aviation. We can evolve into it, in the same way auto plants can evolve into making military land...

If America went with the nuclear option, and blocked sales to their NORAD and NATO ally, it would be the end of sales to anyone who had other options. We'd be dumb to buy the F-35 if they played that game.