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Flatspin, Air4ce is essentially correct, however it has kinda negative connotations. The Tower/Terminal B-stand is NOT an administrative asistant. Everyone in a tower and a terminal environment has their own job to do, with the common goal of moving metal in a safe, orderly and efficient...

George, Correct on the cards- '79. The problems blamed on the position resolver that resulted in lazing, then applying the lased values to the secondary sight and shooting off the #2 site were, iirc CAT 83 and 85. I'd bet my last dollar that the position resolvers were fine, and that our...

PS- Bo, I spent three weeks once eating rabbit...please listen to this... BRING SALT. After that course, I have ALWAYS had a small container of mixed salt and pepper with me....always. It sat in my vest beside the baggie with tobacco and papers and a BIC.....I NEVER, EVER unloaded that...

Gotta back up AESOP on this (as much as I hate agreeing with anything the Navy says or does) :) I really, really believe in train as you fight. Take loads of neat stuff, and you'll learn how to do a task with neat stuff. Take what you have with you every single time you go flying, and you'l...

I don't believe it was the linkage, and iirc it wasn't '79 that the problem surfaced. We received the Canadian tanks in '79, and they worked superbly. While I don't remember the actual distances involved (anyone help out here) we used to boresight and zero the Centurian at (again, iirc) 1,000...

Well, that's not quite the direction I was wanting to go. More hoping for reasoning behind the myriad of little things we do- more to prove that there is a sound reason why your Sgt is so demanding vice otherwise. However, since we're on it, I never accepted the offer of extra duties. I...

When I first joined up, there were an awful lot of rules that didn't make much sense to me. I was lucky, in that I didn't grumble about them, just shut up and did what I was told (turns out this is a good thing to do in basic training) I was even luckier in that my M/Cpl was pretty switched on...

Jeez George, are you ever old. LOL :)

Don't knock "believing" in your Sgt..... Many, many moons ago I went to Toronto (shudder) for a friends wedding. We all wore our dress uniforms, and had a ball. Sometime in the wee hours of the morning I was leaving town, on my motorcycle, drunk as a skunk. (for the PC crowd, yes, I was wrong-...

Duey, No idea. I will point out, however, that at some point in time Rick will remember that one of us is a full general, and the rest of us aren't :) From what I remember of him, if he really wanted fast air or naval air anywhere, they'd be there already. Now, for something really...

Hey Duey, I'm not sure we need fast air- in all honesty, the case has been (well) made that since we've pretty much tied oursleves to the US, we're never going to go to war alone, that maybe we should specialise- Recce, Light Infantry, heck, pick one of whatevver, and be the best in the world...

Duey, Point well taken (on doing the job). Right now it's A'stan- and it was a political decision not to spend the $$. I do NOT know, but I'm wondering if the USAF was able to devolve some NORAD commitments onto the CAF, thereby freeing more of it's forces to deploy to A'stan..?? Economy of...

Lance, Exactly correct, but with one twist: The F-18 is a multi role fighter. It can fight it's way in, bomb the target, then fight it's way back out. The F-18 in it's world is kinda like a Leopard in ours- if you added Air Defence, Recce, Engineer, Artillery, and Infanteer support into the...

Recceguy, I feel your pain... In the UFI column, I remember going to Halifax and bringing back three brand spanking new Leopards. Man, they were fast. I also remember retiring the Centurion- good parade that. Feeling old....garry

My mess kit boots disappeared between Cyprus and Gagetown, and there was no way I was going to pay the horrendous prices they wanted for the proper footwear here in Canada, so, keeping in mind the traditions that are oh-so-important to Canada's senior Armoured Regiment, I wore my cowboy boots...

IIRC there was a recruitment drive by the Aussie AF in the early 90's. I know of several ATC that were recruited, and several who went. (btw, they loved it) Word was if we wanted the info package to contact the Aussie embassy, and that there were two Aussie recruiters there who would talk to...

Brihard, I'm not touching the concept of modifying a DND weapon. However, I will let you know that to avoid brokerage fees (and concur, they're horrendous) always ship via USPS (Unirted States Postal Service). Good service so far, shipped lots. Cheers-Garry

"PS As I said before, this really wasn't meant to be a controversial post, more of a closing argument... but if you want to, I'm good to go a few more rounds. " Well said! I'll gracefully bow out of the public comments as well. However (especially since a closing statement sems to be de...

Hey CC, You were doing great until your last post :( "So I'll close as well by saying that it seems to me, in my moral schema, that we have a duty, not just has citizens, but as fellow human beings, to aid and assist those of us who are less fortunate" I tend to agree, but playing devil's...

Tweed, I think I'd like your bus driver :) I'd call the last 20 years of our political system much more socialist than communist. However, your driver is 100% correct that Canadians are abandoning their free will in favour of Government dominance. There are so many programs to keep the lazy...