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I was involved in an ITAR audit as part of Annapolis’ disposal. This was a few years after Kootenay was sold with the ASROC manuals still onboard so there was a measure of hyper awareness that boarded on the ludicrous. In my case, it was removing o-rings from the boiler room glands condenser...

Not only that, the C&POs in 3 mess were mostly hammered by morning stand-easy. The MS and senior killicks ran the show. This was 35 years ago on my first ship. That all changed for the better around 5 years later. Strangely enough, that aligned with FRP…

The finished product is likely going to be substantially different from any model accessible for public consumption. Brit nuke boats have been historically quieter than the USN and MN for many years, never mind potential aggressors.

That's a perfect synopsis of current NDP fortunes and I agree on all of your points. Well done sir! Losing Mulcair (and ascension of Singh) was likely the worst thing that's happened to them since the McLaughlin/McDonough doldrums.

Zed’s dead baby.

It’s all about the duality of man, man.

Regards today’s Uni vs. yesterday’s HS: When my daughter was taking her B.Ed at UVic, she gave me a general rundown of the course curriculum. My circa 1985 Grade 13 course load was more challenging.

That’s nothing new. I have a high school pal who did a chemistry degree at Western, then had to do two years at Sheridan to learn how to apply it practically. This was almost forty years ago. It’s also a side effect of HS guidance councillors pushing uni over anything else. I wonder if they...

I was just thinking, 'drop the turret on a 432, they'll get another 50 years out of it' and you post this :D

I’ve been involved in those where a good proportion of the off watch-crew were hammered. Two beer per man perhaps got tossed out of the porthole. Looking back, if there had been a ship wide emergency, I wonder how we would have fared. I guess the inability to police ourselves is the primary...

That’s the one.

I remember some early 80s Gwynn Dyer documentary on NORTHAG in Germany. He's interviewing some RTR LCol and some of his bods in a Chieftain. Gwynn: How long do you thing you'll last in an NBCD combat environment? LCol with plummy accent: We have the best NBCD kit in NATO pip-pip non-answer...

My old man said the tank tread stretcher race was worse than the log.

More than one needle gun pierced a steamer’s hull beneath the vaps. . Oh, you meant the frigates.

You mean this one?

With Victoria-area schools balking at the police liaison program despite parent support, a section of roaming baby-killing MAGA fascists ( as I’m sure BCTF would interpret it) might be a bit much for the bleeding heart brigade.

I’ve just finished ‘Defeat into Victory’. The Slim/Stilwell relationship was fascinating.

Good thing they kept Slim.

You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone - Joni Mitchell