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Understood but if it comes down to it, the priority is to maintain ATH's operational state with one of only two 'parts stores'. An engine or generator missing here or there will mean nothing to a potential community looking at her as a Museum piece though provided the structure is sound. I was...

She already is!

I had a copy of the original SOR written in 1978. I'll see if I can find it.

It is actually referred to as ELE - Estimated Life Expectancy and HAL (I am pretty sure) was 25-30. The issue up until IRO was not the hull but the combat system and it was never feasible to replace beyond obsolescence. Some of the STLs and follow on classes were actually in pretty sound shape...

Ahhh, you should never throw a challenge out like that: HMC Ships Anticosti and Moresby. But, sadly, what you say is true. Not counting wartime ships, I think the only other one...ever, was the Tribal HMCS Micmac which was decommissioned just shy of 20 years. That was because of a collision in...

MARLANT rules say authorized with all forms of dress EXCEPT 1As.

I was waiting with baited breath for your response on that one!!  How anticlimactic! Navy is easy-We don't wear anything other than rank on the gabardine.

For what itt is worth, there is no Sgt Frank Gervais in OUTLOOK and once MM is back, I will check there. If recently retired, there should be record of a request to wear his uniform. I never paid attention to these things before but for some reason, this year, this really pisses me off.

The 4 technical trades, especially Mar Eng and ETech but then forces.ca will tell you the same thing. We would you not believe that? Pat

Misinformation indeed. CRCN made a statement about this already and indeed Spec Pay WILL return to status quo before the end of the fiscal year so if CFRG are saying it's there, they are not wrong. I am a little disturbed about your comment re disinformation though. If you want to PM me and...

This is like deciding you need a new bicycle and buying a snow blower instead. This vessel as configured would fill '0' mandates outlined in the CFDS.

OGBD: My intent was not to 'shame' and I apologize profusely if that was how I came across. Again, my concern (within the RCN) is that this 'misunderstanding' is being perpetuated. I suppose this is how history gets changed! I am up at the (Naval...) Museum (...of Halifax) tomorrow and will ask...

I am not meaning to be pedantic but this 'minor error' is being perpetuated in several DND pubs. If you look on page 21 of said book, it is actually HMCS Rainbow vice HMS. This is what I flipped out in response to the latest version of "Your Navy Today" which had a story on NIOBE Day. HMCS...

Actually our first ship was HMCS RAINBOW but Rainbow Day...Well, that has a whole different meaning! I read somewhere that this day was identified to actually distance us from Trafalgar Day so we would have our own day.

31 Oct? I didn't realize that though I don't recall the one year I did that at Sobeys (I know, I am a bad sailor!-Will do it this year) They are authorized for uniform wear the last Thursday of October (which is actually the day before this year). Pat

Oh, now you did it!! Someone in Ottawa is going to pick up on this...Thanks!

Okay Colin. There you go using common sence and logic again! To compound this, we DO NOT have a surplus of sailors because we are retasking to platforms with NO (RegF) BILLETS (ORCA and KIN class). I don't know what the answer is but that Norwegian frigate outside my window sure looks like it...

I hope you mean Tomahawk/Kittyhawk/Warhawk (as in P 40). I think a Tomahawk CM flying over Ottawa would be a sign it is going to be a bad day!

SCSC is long dead. The CSC Project (Canadian Surface Combatant) which replaced it, is alive and well and went to Project Definition phase in Nov 2012. What the hell do you think that mother of all shipyard buildings going up on the Halifax waterfront is for? Yes, AOPS will come first but the...

I queried the same thing and got the "We are going for the common look and feel (and bilungual) Ver 100.0..." response.