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And launch a Greenland 2.0 self inflicted wound? I'm pretty sure even the Whitehouse bootlickers learned from the last "let's threaten to take territory from an ally" debacle.

As leader of the Opposition, and a long time MP, has has enough connections to useful people to be hired pretty fast. The animosity between parties on the hill is mostly manufactured image. When off the clock most are pretty friendly to each other, so I suspect he has lots of friends and...

That would require a lot of moving pieces in places not friendly to Iran. Ukraine managed it because they broadly look and sound like Russians, and were operating next door. I doubt Iran has enough people and drones in place in places like Rota or Sofia to manage much on that scale. Maybe in ME...

Seems like a similar but different design. There area few out there now using the overall Sherp template of giant tires on a small chassis. I find it interesting that it's already being tested/used by the CAF in the Arctic, but there has been little chatter about it. If it meets the CAFs...

I haven't seen this posted yet, but a video from CTV popped up recently in my feed talking about a new vehicle being tested in the arctic by the CAF. Canadian Armed Forces test made-in-Canada 'fat trucks' for Arctic travel The company makes several versions of the Fat Truck, so I suspect...

There are too many jobs where a surface ship is required for that to work. We need to stop thinking about how to do things on the cheap, and embrace the fact we have the 10th largest economy in the world, based largly on trading. We have no excuse for penny pinching, particularly when it comes...

My point was that someone often needs to do the unsexy, because the people who should have done it years ago spent the time/money on shiny things to get elected/be popular. Whether it's not repairing water mains, or buying new toys to distract from the crumbling and unmaintained ones we...

Doing unsexy maintenance work on infrastructure doesn't get you re-elected.

As @Oldgateboatdriver said, its the support trades who wear berets that are employed on ship, and I dont recall a single instance of those members choosing a beret over ball cap. When I did most of my sailing I was an air force Sgt, and apart from the blue slip-ons, and the eagle on my...

Ships ball caps generally, but the beret is allowed. Most choose ball caps, because they are a far more practical hat.

So, if someone owns a truck they are compensating for something? This is the culture wars BS that makes it impossible to have rational conversations with people. You're not superior because you choose to not drive a truck.

Only woke people need forecasts, based people don't let the weather tell them when it's safe to fly.

Spent some time in the RCAF? :ROFLMAO:

So we are knowingly signing on for inferior aircraft, from a nation that has threatened our sovereignty? F-35 sounds like a better deal every day... 😉

Social media has a photo of a gun safe showing a previously NR KRISS Vector beside a SKS, and a "tactical" shotgun. The family were gun people, so it's not that odd that they would have some different firearms.

One of his lesser songs(though popular in it's time), but Marty Robbins is a legend for a reason. I highly recommend Trail Songs and Gunfighter Ballads as an album. I have it both on CD and LP, LP is obviously best, but even Spotify does a reasonable job.

The whole thing is ridiculous, and propped up by anti LPC sentiment. If PP had won, I imagine none of this would carry any weight. There is a real issue of the West feeling alienated and belittled by the central government, but separation isn't the answer. All of the foolishness with...

If posted to a ship, all members wear NCDs(NECUs are officially NCDs now), the air Det is a bit different because they are a detachment on TD on the ship, not hard posted to the ship. CA and RCAF members wear their element specific name tags and ranks on their NCD. If posted to a shore unit, CA...

Silly tantrums are fine, but sometimes they happen at the wrong time and have unintended consequences... Like I said, in 2019 it would be amusing, now I have some concerns that our southern neighbour will use the referendum as a pretext to openly interfere in our politics/governance.

The problem is, they aren't acting in a vacuum. In theory what they are doing is a silly tantrum, but by engaging with our neighbour who has on a few occasions talked about annexing Canada, and Greenland, their silly tantrum might have real-world consequences. Getting embarrassed by the...