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Do you realise that  a San Antonio would be more expensive and manpower intensive than the BHS, and would be able to carry fewer troops, less equipment, and fewer helos? The SA LPD's are perfect.... If you are the USN and already have a very impressive fleet of varied amphibious and...

In Australia we have a town for these kinds of people, it's called Nimbin. They stay in thier hippy paradise town, and society doesn't have to smell or hear them. I's love to see it used as a military exercise area, now wouldn't that be well recieved?  ;)

I don't think second hand is the problem, what is the problem is the time spent sitting and collecting dust. About a decade of doing absolutely nothing will create these sorts of problems.

The Article title: then you read on: Anybody else see what I see? The Navy says one thing, the media prints another.

Okay, that is more reasonable. I thought from the sounds of it that 33% of people would rather the ships sit alongside for 12 months whilst the crews gather around a camp fire and sing 60's peace songs.

Why would only 67% agree? Good luck to all units.

Well I grew up in what is widely considered to be the safest Labor seat in the country, so I was always one conservative surrounded by lefties. I think all the parties are as bad as each other, from both my experience and my observations I certainly wouldn't say that Labor were any better. I've...

True, you do need a left to counter the right, I'm just glad the left is the minority. And if you look at the figures, it is no exageration that Australia was on a road to the stone age in the early 90's. The financial situation was dire, bankruptsy was iminent. Debt was extreme and was growing...

Thankfully lefty believers are just a vocal minorty here. We would be literally screwed without a conservative government. If Howard hadn't been elected 10 years ago you folks would have been sending us foreign aid right about now. Hale, would you have preferred Mark bloody Latham to have won...

You can't win with the media. If they hadn't written about Service members using so many condoms they would have done an article about how Canadian Forces go around to every town/port having unprotected sex with the local population or some other BS.

That's how it's done here in Australia. Medical, psyche, and the behind the scenes paperwork is handled by civilians. But applicants are assessed by, deal with, and are in contact with military personnel.

Disinterest is fine, but it's when people have the mentality of "whats the point" or "the ADF does nothing" that I have a problem with. Luckily such thinkers are few and far between, even down here in sunny Melbourne  ;).

Where abouts in Australia areyou from. Because I find in Melbourne there is a general dis-interest in the ADF other than on Anzac day and when it comes time to hand out a new shipbuilding contract. I guessthat this ties in with Melbourne's leftist, socialist, and isolationist leanings. Whereas...

Well there was no formal declaration of war in Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf War (I believe), or the Iraq War either, yet they were certainly wars. IIRC the last war to be formally declared was Korea, and that has never been officially resolved. The formal act of declaring war is no longer...

  ::), incompetant woman. It's bad enough she has run down the NZDF to the point where they can only send 120 troops within the region, and they cannot deploy anywhere on their own without foreign logistical and protective help, but now she hesitiates like this in such a crisis. Thank christ...

:o That must be a reporter's mistake. Over 50 years of planned service? I find that very hard to believe.

And another stuff up by the Defence Material Organisation at the cost of mere billions to the Australian taxpayer  ::) Not to mention the effects this will have on operational effectivness. Why cant DMO seem to get their act together? Of course the incompetence of a largely civilian body...

Well, not Canadian RMC, but yesterday I recieved an offer from ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy) as a Seaman Officer (equivalent to Canada's MARS).

That is a very unlikely scenario, a more likely one would be trying not to be seen by an enemy bird flying above you trying to kill off survivors. But again, unlikely. However, on to performance, just how would big smears of spilt grey paint look on CADPAT? The RAN uses storm grey coveralls...

The RAN's submarines have space set aside for AIP mods. They have some stirling gear around somewhere. After all their evaluations, they decided not to install any AIP mods on the collins, there must be a reason why. And with the amount already spent getting the collins to where they are, I...