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Do you see an urgency in the halls of DND now as in a fill yer boots like a Pirate because things may dry up soon?

Probably because the present PM soon won't be.

I believe MV ASTERIX was quite a timely asset to be in the Red Sea.

But will ignorant desperate Ottawa fundamentally change our overseas commitments? Its gray with a gun so they WILL send it .Canada will be an AOR, A330 Tanker , P-8 contributor if Ottawa listens to the Professionals. Until the mid 30's.

I can see CSOR and JTF 2 using as a tactical objective as well. Training of course.

MANY folks out East are amazed She is alive. But more folks have lost Faith in the RCMP ,as in ,will they come to your aid? Wortman was visited 16 times by the RCMP before he went off. I have a cousin in the RCMP and I have not visited him 16 times I can tell you. Too many unanswered questions...

My Brother the Doctor agrees and just like he does when he is in the presence our 88 year old Father, my brother watches Trumps motor function very closely. He surmise's that if Mother nature is going to take him it will be while Trump tries to climb the stairs of AF one. It is probably the only...

North Sydney is where the Ferries that supply Newfoundland are based and land for contact with the mainland. All the Ferries are Ice Strengthened and Coast Guard Breakers have been known to come up from Halifax or Newf to help if need be. I think the Synergy of having an Ice breaker under refit...

Real Donair sauce with Carnation milk or ....

No Sydney is slowly melting away but never underestimate Cape Breton Home sickness especially if a Caper can get great work for the last years before retirement.

As time goes on and the merger of the RCN and Canadian Coast Guard takes root I can see a potentially larger combined fleet with the CDC evolution being an opportunity to truly blend the RCN and CCG fleets. Hear me out. Leadmark and other RCN publications have always alluded to a Surface...

While I think most of this comment is very true I have been astounded at the interest in Friends and Family about the F 35 choice. I have had to have a few one way adult chats with the sudden couch airpower experts we now have in Canada. I have asked why they suddenly are Gripen fans when they...

There is a new Indigenous part owner of the Shipyard from the Membertou Reserve in Sydney. If they are as successful in Newfoundland as they have been in Cape Breton then the Shipyard is in good hands. The Membertou leadership have built or acquired many businesses with a game plan of using...

That would not surprise me since both of the new Heavy Ice Breakers and at least two of the Program Ships will probably be based on the Rock.

They are the smarter creatures in the forest you know . They WILL find out.

Well its a lot of steps to get a disk

A friend of mine used to be a Bosch Tools Rep here in Atlantic Canada. In the building of the first gravity based Oil platform in Newfoundland the guys were issued three Bosch grinders per day as the structure grew. When the grinding wheel was done the Grinder was turfed into the Ocean. It took...

The Irving's have left the old Drydock pretty much as it was but the Shipbuilding land facilities do not exist anymore as the site was converted to a Wallboard plant.

So stayin alive stayin alive.

That begs the question then of what the fuck have we done with the last four years.