Search results

Agree completely. Besides, if/when we do need their oil it'll still be there for the taking (or should I say "purchasing").

He was being ground-guided for sure and no doubt this is something they train for. But still, could have ended a whole lot worse than it did. Great bar story...

Sick skills. What struck me though was how narrow the stool was that the nose was supposed to land on. If it were 3-4 ft wider on either side, wouldn't that give the pilot a little more margin left/right for an "un-perfect" landing... or are those USMC aviators just that good?  :)

I don't believe you can blame the CF-18 community or the RCAF for the fact that the CF didn't have fast air in the fight. I know from experience that as early as 2002, the CF-18 community and Air Force were chomping at the bit, looking for every possible angle to exploit, in an effort to be...

With the Ontario government talking about establishing a provincially-run Retirement Pension Plan (ORPP) to be modeled largely on the CPP, Postmedia's Andrew Coyne peels back the onion on the CPP Investment Board's operations and the info he has uncovered may surprise you. His insights offer...

@ Supersonicmax How about this. You go fly your mission over bad guy land without any planned/dedicated AAR support for you. Just call when you're low on fuel, and someone will see if they can re-task an airborne tanker asset somewhere in your area if they're available. It's more efficient that...

It's nice to be efficient but it's imperative to be effective. When the shit is hitting the fan, effective ALWAYS trumps efficient.

I have no bias... frankly I couldn't care less. The Obama blamers are laughable to me though and I sometimes find it difficult to stop myself from calling them out on sh**. That said, I'm done.

Educate yourself on the “President’s Surveillance Program”. 

Had Obama recommitted US Forces to stay in Iraq without a Status of Forces Agreement, the GOP would have had a field day with that one, not to mention it would have been a grave mistake. What did you want him to do? If Obama cured cancer tomorrow, you'd be pissed that he put Oncologists out of...

You say that your supervisors keep telling you that "there is no new information". What have you been told to this point? Anything?

Blame should be laid where blame is due. Iraq was invaded under false pretense six years before Obama became president. That anyone would seek to lay blame at the feet of anyone but the Bush administration is laughable. There, I've said it.

A good (albeit abridged) overview of how the current ISIS situation in Iraq came to be, from Peter Bergan at CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/13/opinion/bergen-iraq-isis-bush/index.html?hpt=hp_t4 Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America...

If you created this product 100% on your own time using 100% of your own resources (i.e. no DND proprietary info, technology, materials, etc), then I see no way you can be lawfully ordered to provide it. Something sounds funny here.

At least they got a keel in the water. We'd still be debating design and capabilities, not to mention having to navigate procurement incompetence.

I would talk to your Loggies or FLS personnel. Quite likely, the support CONOPS is outlined within the Logistics Annex of the OPORD (or at least it should be).

Regrettable and all the more so given the number of guys killed or injured there. Can't say I'm surprised though. I've always believed that any issues the West had with Iraq would have been far "less costly" to navigate with Saddam still at the helm than the price paid - and that which will...

That's about what I would have expected to be locked up in GITMO. Did anyone think these guys were anything but?

You have made the incorrect assumption that I live in Canada. I see "the real" Fox News every day (or at least until I've seen all I can stomach). Keep drinking the Fox News Kool-Aid my friend.

Bergdahl was a no-win for any administration, especially this one. I would opine that there wasn't a single COA the Obama administration could have taken that would not have been twisted into something evil by the "other side" - and in this context, by other side I'm not talking about the...