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no need to get snappy, I just scrolled too fast and didn't see it.  I'll check it out, thanks for the link.  :salute: isn't a comment about APCs and tanks a little off-topic in a discussion about helos? just read that link - Dillon Aero DMG134S MiniGun looks amazing.  That will be quite a...

what I mean was what are we waiting for in terms of how long we'd had the griffin - it seems to me that if that was the role we wanted to deploy it in (and believe me, as it's the aircraft I want to fly hearing you say that is music to my ears!) then we have been taking our time in arming it. ...

best thing is this - I was in it about... 5 years ago? since the eighties, it has become even more mickey-mouse.  My first year, we still used the bolt action lee-enfield 22's, after that we used an air rifle called the DAISY.  I mean, it's a nice target rifle, but it's a bloody pellet gun! if...

it reminds me of a speech I recently heard from Romeo Dallaire at the University campus - where he said that we've never been a peacekeeping nation.  Even during the eighties/nineties while the world saw us in peackeeping missions, he claims that I think it was around 80% of our forces were...

yes I agree - I think the mistake we've gotten caught up in here (myself included) is, as said above, comparing apples to basketballs.  originally it was why didn't we get the blackhawks - and I believe someone said it wasn't in the works.  From there we've sort of drifted into more of a...

absolutely, I think.

There's no need to squabble, I never meant to offend.  I was quoting off-hand an incident recounted to me by an old friend I haven't spoken to in years who was in the ADF.  Basically it came out of a conversation I was having with him at the time about how much I wished our government would ramp...

agreed.  Cadets set me up with a glider license, an instructor rating, and a private pilot license, about... 20000 worth of training in all.  not to mention it opened up the doors for me to get into my aviation program at university - the fact that I ended up in the Air Force had nothing to do...

slowmode, very well put on the rearming comment.  I personally feel that the chinooks seem a bit unwieldy in comparison to the blackhawks - but i think it's a moot point as as far as I know we've already purchased the hooks. time expired, not sure on the casualties for the aussies, but I think...

I think more and more people in the military are learning to work together regardless of language background.  This has at least been what I have seen in my very limited experience.  Sure, everyone likes to bust balls a bit, but I think for the most part it's goodhearted. 

I am an OCdt in the ROTP program with one year left in school at the University of Western Ontario.  I've finished IAP/BOTP, and I'm in an aviation program from which I will leave with my multi/commercial/IFR pilot license/ratings.  At this point I very much want to fly tac-hel but I wanted to...

interesting opinion.  Mine only really counts as speculation as well - I am only a pilot in training at the moment with no time in choppers - however, I am aiming to end in griffins (although it will still be a while before I even get my hands on the Harvard II trainer at the rate the line is...

hell no.  If you are going to commit a crime with a gun, why would you register it?

accidentally reposted the article.  Needless to say, that article is an inflammatory piece or garbage.  I've never seen such a set of ridiculous exaggerations before.

so many quotes I'd like to respond here.  First, I believe the ADF has a substantially higher priority in it's governmental funding (unless I'm mistaken) due to an eye-opening incident that happened in Timor (correct me if I'm wrong).  That certainly makes it easier to afford the infrastructure...

I couldn't agree more.  Too often people who are uninformed (particularly I find at the University campus) preach about returning to our 'roots' as peacekeepers, and that that is what we should be doing in Afghanistan as well - they just don't understand the reality of it.  Reconstruction not...

Hey there speaking as someone who frequently gets beat down by old man winter; It is definitely hard keeping in shape during the winter.  I live in London Ontario which is in an area known as the snow belt.  The key is to use indoor cardio as well as outdoor.  Walks are good - but you should try...