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And at the risk of compounding the heresy, assuming there we buy the full 12, could a split fleet also not make some sense. The vertical launch capability of the SK boats might be a valuable strategic asset but not one that we need for a all 12 boats or for patrolling our own approaches?

Everything is relative...

Knew a guy who worked in his office when he was MND and it was always my impression that the CAF lost out when he lost his seat.

Thanks for that. And I guess, at least through the 80s with the Rendezvous exercised the army was also at least engaging in the mass movement of brigade level formations, if not to Europe at least across the continent.

Serious question, but given the number of times I've read the phrase "the CA needs to decide what it wants to be when it grows up" on other threads (apologies to @FJAG and @KevinB but not sure which of you coined it) has there ever been a time since the Second World War when the army articulated...

Hangar is still there isn't it, or at least there is something where they were. Also I believe the origin of the name "Alert Road." I knew there had been CF-100s stationed at Upland but hadn't realized the Voodoos had been as well.

Checked the Wiki (FWIW) and apparently the Voodoos were originally stationed at Comox, North Bay, Uplands (which I didn't know), Bagotville and Chatham, but were withdrawn from North Bay and Uplands due to budget cuts in 1964, so likely before the nukes were deployed. It seems the Voodoo didn't...

All part of the fall out from the Arrow. In cancelling the Arrow, Dief agreed to acquiring the Voodoo and Bomarc, both of which were only of any use when armed with nuclear warheads (in the Voodoo's case on the Genie missiles). But then Dief refused to take the warheads. It became an issue in...

It would be brutal negotiating a bus downtown in this city so you have my sympathies and admiration. To atone for my sins and bring it, sort of, back to the topic, North Bay might not be that bad if it meant avoiding the traffic chaos of Ottawa, or Toronto. As for Winnipeg, I just spent the...

Off topic rabbit hole I know (but I didn’t start it). Went downtown yesterday around 4:30 from where I live in Navan to meet someone for drinks. 417 west bound was backed up to the split (east bound for as far as the eye could see). Got off at Nicholas and would normally have turned left on...

Actually the roads are being designed by a dedicated team in City Hall whose sole purpose is to so frustrate drivers as to force them onto our world class transit "system."

Isn't that generally true of any DND DM?

Have we seen anything like this in Canada since the 50s? It strikes me that even under Mulroney in the 80s there was still a lot of "bare minimum."

Including a female Canadian gunner a few years back: Brant County woman rides into military history I've never really understood why so few men ride. Both my daughters rode competitively through their teenage years and it always seemed the vast majority of the riders at shows were female. So...

I believe it was Simmonds who decreed all the reg force artillery regiments be designated RCHA when he became CGS. I've always assumed that when 5 RALC was created the decision to not use RCHA was just the challenge of translating it (and maybe given the times not wanting to use "Royal").

"Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield." -- Churchill

"the M777s will be considered for long-term preservation..."

Fair point...

My bet is after. Why piss of the German chancellor in advance and doing it during a summit actually being hosted in Europe might come off as a little undiplomatic to say the least...

You would definitely have overlapped by a couple of years. Dad was in NDHQ from 1974 to 1987 but the last two years or so was working out of DGCB on a government wide pension reform project. He actually stayed on as a civilian to continue working on that project and didn't finally retire from...