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It is said that there is an exception to every rule, I have not been exposed to high level CAF persons so I cannot comment.

I think there are tons of union people who are excellent. I know some are awful. The highly entitled attitude is not an absolute if you work in a union but I have not seen it outside a union at all. Suffolkowners original question about the sabotage Sometimes I think its to prolong the job but...

In my experience that would not matter. The attitudes I have witnessed at some places are more like what Photopilot mentioned. No thought what so ever for the long term. They seem to think their acts of sabotage or insubordination and justified because the company did or didn't do something or...

Unions, they are not all bad but the ones I have had contact with typically the members develop an extremely entitled attitude. Normally so bad that they do not care one bit about the company paying their wages and even seem to be happy to hurt the company any chance they get.

Candu reactor sale to China enters the chat.

The Asterix crewing model seems like it works well for peace time. Sailors can feel they are serving their country without the negatives of signing up to the armed forces. They can quit anytime and go to work for someone else they don't have to go through basic training. And they know they will...

Surely the Taiwanese aren't the only ones who knew this 7 years ago. How many people are there that could have sounded the alarm but didn't? Wow.

A very rebellious 10 year old can be 'cooled off' quickly with fully clothed cold shower.

I haven't been paying close enough attention, Do I have to alter the mag on my No4 or not? Every time I open this thread I get mad so I don't do it often.

https://www.canadiandefencereview.com/news/trudeau-to-nato-canada-will-never-meet-defence-spending-goal :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Edit; I just noticed this article is from April 20th and already discussed.

When I drove truck we would say the haze over Detroit isn't smog... It's Gunsmoke! ;)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedriven.io/2023/04/21/worlds-largest-battery-maker-announces-major-breakthrough-in-battery-density/amp/ There have been multiple breakthroughs in battery technology announced lately. Doubling and even tripling the energy density of tesla batteries. Some of them...

Why multi year ice, strengthen it enough to be able to transit under moderate ice and limit your under ice maneuvers. If the ice is melting at the rate the tree huggers tell us it is it shouldn't be an issue. With shipping increasing the ice gets broken up often so it should be able to surface...

With the Ice pack that KB posted and the fact the only adversarial country in that ice pack is Russia and the fact that we know the Americans are shadowing the Russian subs constantly, Would we not be better served buying a long legged AIP sub. Wiki claims the 212 can stay submerged for 21 days...

And we bought how many??? Same shit different day :rolleyes:

Actually the hook block says 50 Tonne which is metric and equals 50,000kgs or 55 us ton.

I agree totally, it was purely a joke.

With new boats you can do that. Funny huh

Falklands vet: Vehicles what the hell do you need an isv for? In my day we yomped 56 miles and still kicked ass when we got there. You youngsters are just spoiled 😁

Because Canadians love them and no politician is willing to spend the political capital to disband them. It would be career suicide.