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Neat how this "hurray, yay Military" stuff comes out right after the all the stories about the Buffalo (and FWSAR in general) will have to keep flying, fueled pretty much on wishes and prayers, until eventually we get around to restarting the bidding process to once again enter into contract...

Dunno why you'd want to update it.  Blueberry blue polyester mass produced suits are always in style. Honestly, the AF DEU's look about as sharp as a spoon.  Luckily, most of us wear the thing maybe twice a year and last had it tailored 5 years ago, so the fit tends to match the finish.

Cogeco physically "secures" your phone modem to your address....when they install the service, they use a cable lock on the modem meaning that you can't move the modem to a different location short of cutting and splicing the cable.  The modem then is tied to the physical address, so when you...

Fair enough, but I have to ask, what's "a lot"?  Is there more flying college guys getting the 200 glory hours on the hornet than PPL guys/no PFE guys?  Are you talking about 2, 3, 5, 15, 276?  Contrast that to how many bottomed the course and ended up with their 3rd choice.  Its actually a...

Oh....forgot to mention.....a 4yr CEOTP 2Lt sitting at CFRC is not unusual.  Usually they're between courses (yep, it can take that long to get wings), and working at the local CFRC so they can be home with their spouse. Recruiting centre's have a habit of taking people asking about being a...

My $0.02. The ROTP plan might give you the best chance....and with 1 year under your belt, you should (I'm thinking with nearly 100% chance) stay at your current univ.  The reason for the ROTP push is the training system is saturated, ROTP allows for a slower integration of the applicant into...

See Acheo, I saw the opposite, sort of. The PPL guys did well in Portage (since they already knew how to land a plane).  The CPL guys in MJ tended to either do okay, but the 1,000 hour CPL wonders (and portage bypasses due to going to the right college) for the most part struggled.  Usually...

Is it a full blown posting, or a temp attached posting? Can't speak to Base Borden, I've no experience there. Winnipeg is just that...Winnipeg.  Apparently accomodations are no good for a rank below Capt.  Building 63 baby!  I don't know if that's where you'll end up staying, but you get a...

Hard to argue with that  ;D

Sure thing, agree 100% with that, you've got to have a dream and you've got to have a goal.  I was just trying to provide a bit of perspective and reality, that the thing to focus on is passing the next phase of training (assuming he's even in the CF) and not worrying about flying [insert type...

Sure, you get to voice your opinion (rank the three choices), and sure, it's in everyone's best interest for you to be happy in the results, but at the end of the day, your opinion really doesn't hold a lot of weight.  Remember....something like 50%-ish of the cockpits in the CF are...

Gotta hand it to the NDP critic.  Not everyone can masterfully meld ignorance of a non-issue into a news-friendly enraging sound bite. I guess that's what being an opposition critic is about though....misrepresenting an issue with willful naivety to try and stoke anger towards the ruling party...

wonder what it's like to "have all kids of spare time"  ;D

Well, see, I maybe meet the qualifications to be do [INSERT JOB TITLE HERE], however, there may be only 2 openings and 6 other people who are also qualified to do [INSERT JOB TITLE HERE] but have much better resumes than me in many, many different aspects. Being qualified gets you a shot on the...

yes, yes, yes, I get it, rumours bad.  I don't trade in rumours, personally I find keeping up with the gossip a bit annoying.  Having said I've heard negative rumours doesn't mean I believe or spread said rumours, just that I've heard them kicked around.  A lesson to everyone though....rumours...

Funny...I've heard a couple "J" performance rumours (all leaning towards the lacking).  My conspiracy theory is it's the FE's and the Nav's trying to talk down the machine, maybe with some help from the Tanker and SAR Herc guys. True the "J" isn't a hornet in TAL clothing, and I'm willing to...

Nifty.  They kinda hung it on the props, didn't they. I wonder what it'd be like to fly in one of those.  Can't wait till Canada starts getting them.

What a great thread....very lurk friendly. Still, I have a few things to add. Neil....good on you for debating against so many people on such an emotionally charged subject.  Hell, I'd even go so far as to say some of your comments have a degree of merit.  You are right that a military is not...

Ummm,  regarding ryananderson & to a much lesser extent neilinkorea.......why, oh why, oh why do people feed the trolls?

I'm not entirely sure of the mechanics, but the gist of it works like this.  Someone steals a laptop with an encrypted HDD on it.  The encryption key is stored in DRAM, so, the evil hacker monkey who's out to get you plugs a bootable USB key it which has a naughty little piece of software on it...