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Didn't they cease publishing last year 🤔?

We also have to relearn the concept of time as near as I can tell currently CF when it comes to deployments Immediately seem to be a fairly nebulous concept as in anytime within 6 to 8 months..

Worked for Jack Churchill...

I hate to even think it. But I suspect the Chinese might decide to err on the side of their own security and basically level any military target on the West Coast. For which I fairly sure they'll be quite apologetic. It might also be done as a warning for us to remain neutral.

Highest sales growth, staff gets a pizza party usually followed by layoffs. The scary part is I could see our head of HR doing just that....

The few times I saw Fantino on the tube I got the feeling that he only answered to God ....or was the other way around ....hmm?

Actually we lost the ability to design in house just after we completed the 280's. And to be honest I suspect a fair bit of the City class design probably went out of country.

For the first time in my life, I am actually hoping that a politican is lying through his teeth.

I can still the Jr . Ranks was where I purchased my first beer or at least semi legal beer. It's funny for the longest time I still couldn't believe that on top of all this funstuff they were actually paying me !

Especially as NDHQ changes it mind as to the importance of the North more often then some people change socks. An old friend of mine now passed on used to tell a story of trying sell arctic capable gear in the early 70s and being told point blank in a letter the DND had absolutely no interest...

I can remember pay parades when I signed my name and SIN # to receive a check .I had to open a bank account the next day. Talk about memories!

That's a real fear actually , a major near peer conflict could render the orbitals useless for decades or more.

It HAS to be a manufacturer's defect , obviously. You should sue ! .....😉

I'm sorry but corruption and incompetence are supposed to be bugs in the system not a feature.

Light doesn't begin to cover it . Somewhere there's a picture of another one of the family a Scorpion.in Norway mid 70's. There's a guy standing next to it. He is literally hip deep in the same snow drift that the scorpion is sitting on. There's also a lot video of both Spartans and Scimitars...

It could be, but that would require either the French Government paying for to integrate American weapons ,sidewinder and ANRAMM ( SP?) the sparrow replacement. And the various air to ground weapons . The manufacturer has made abundantly clear they're not going to pay for it.

The one positive note is on the whole LCS affair is that I suspect serving on one probably turns a sailor into a far more balanced and experienced sailor then the rest of the US fleet. I suspect that the deliberate undermanning of the class oh sorry, planned lean manning of the class. Has...

Truly this is the end of civilization as we know it.

"We went 'round every fishing port in the east of England asking for their old fishing nets," the officer shared, "and we've now got hundreds and hundreds of meters of fishing nets, which we drape over positions when we conduct training." So that what that smell is !

Ok , it's offical I'm old.