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Not really. We bought less M1s than the Leos they replace, and unlike the CF, our Leo 1s will not be retained. On top of this, all reserve M113 units are losing them and being re-tasked.

Dammit! Beat me to it!!!

If the navy recruit Lisa McCune, I'm transferring in.

Anything besides hordes of jerries coming from the west and the russkies are screwed. Recruiting must be a toughie when the strategy is 'we wont train you, but we will test how many bullets you can absorb before you hand your rifle over to the next guy'.

After the disaster that was the World Economic Forum here in Melbourne, where the protesters effectively beat our police, our army formed a response group called the RRF (Reserve Response Force). It is the goal of the RRF to respond to threats to public events, and form part of the security...

- The team's report was buried by the UN itself to "avoid political fallout". What!?!?! The UN defeating it's own reason for existance by playing political games? Never!

That's a laugh! An old mate of mine joined the legion about 6 years ago (after having some pretty severe things go wrong in his life and getting a bit screwed up). He didn't know french, and what the instructors would do to 'encourage' its use, would be to have the troops singing french songs...

I couldn't imagine much worse than being captured by these scumbags. Hope they get found real soon.

Given China's liking for doing a cheap and nasty copy of decade old russian technology, my money would be on a chernobyl.

Yes and no. The generation is not subsidised, but the transmission is effectively paid for by taxes, as their construction and operation is government funded. Connections to the grid are what is private.

Oddly enough, that's exactly what is happenning here. Since the early 1980s there has been little spending on power infrastructure here in Victoria, Australia, and it has bitten us. We now cannot cope with demand. This year a bushfire knocked out one line easement, and took 1/3 of the state's...

I'm not sure WWII propaganda is comparable with this. Backing uncle sam was certainly a theme in the 40s, but preaching world domination, be it religious or political, was not. (But yes, some of the stuff from back then was racist.)

The worst incident I've seen was the killing of a kangaroo with an axe, but that was because it had been hit by an M113. Making a kid who clearly didn't want to, and cried as a result, beat a bunny to death? Hmmmm...that's got lawsuit written all over it. And the crap about crawling around on...

He did quite well at the last election. Recieved a large majority in the key demographics of Sasquatches, Yetis, Yowies, Werewolves, Vampires, Leprechauns, Martians and Goblins.

Calling out 'shot, over' prior to throwing an object to someone, and expecting 'shot, out' when they catch it.

Wow Hale, I've been to your house several times and never seen your parents. You must have passed on your cam and concealment skills well!

Oddly enough, the opposite is likely to take place. Water evaporation (at temperatures well below boiling point) is due primarily to light intensity, not heat. The same polluters that have increased CO2 levels, have greatly increased airborne particulate matter (aka, dust). This allows water...

Only with the 'same number of senators' bit. Tasmania has 500,000 people, and as many senators as NSW with 6,000,000. Because you only need 7% to get elected in the national senate, for a few years we had a Tas manutbag called Brian Harradine who held the balance of power after getting only...

Had that happen to a mate years back in a LAV25. The nickname Halon didn't stick for too long fortunately for him.

...and they are walking down the track to getting their nuclear eraser. God help Israel and the middle east in general if they succeed. The UN is near useless, the US isn't about to go after Iran with Iraq still going on, and the Iranians know it. Sheesh, the UN can't even properly handle...