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I tell people it's my gold star for attendance. I showed-up every day on that tour and did my job. Just like 40K other CAF members did in that theatre. The thing that bothers me is when people judge your medals/deployments based on your DEU. I remember a FGH MCpl mocking my deployment to...

Well, one of the things you learn in Ottawa is that NATO is very limiting in what can be done in it's framework. For example, if we want weather products from our NATO allies, we need to be on a NATO operation. A Canadian ship sailing around Europe can't just get access to NATO weather services...

The A&W was pretty good when I stopped in back in 2010...

Ask America how the Iran "special military operation" is going... If we aren't willing to commit lives, we shouldn't be there in the first place. Drones, missiles, bombers, etc., create the illusion of "clean" wars. No war is clean, and no war worth fight is going to be "solved" by...

As a Corb Lund fan, I have been following it a bit. It all sems like a lot of foolishness...

That is a wildly inaccurate view of warfare since the early 1800s... Artillery was and has been the deciding factor. The only times it wasn't, were when artillery wasn't present in numbers to make it count. Again, inaccurate. The most effective tanks in WWI were the "female" tanks with machine...

Not really, you need room to conduct seamanship/shiphandling evolutions on the wings. Also, you'd lose forward engagament angles farther back.

That has been what I have been preaching for months now too. They jave power, but just like America, if they over play their hand they will see unwanted concequences. In a place that sandy/dusty, the amount of lube on the dildo of consequences doesnt matter...

I think both of those groups are far smaller than their social media noise would lead one to believe. I think most Canadians are on the fence about the EU, based on what they present as the conditions of increased association.

Even if it leads to no new major agreements with the EU, it sends a signal to EU member states that this government is serious about doing business with them.

The fact that all three main routes into the lower mainland were closed at various times through the summer didn't help either. It encouraged me to take the 99 through Lillooet and Squamish on my move though, so it worked out well for me.

So just throw our hands up and quit? Why bother trying to get things done when we can just do nothing and whine about how nothing gets done...

Except that isnt what he's there for... both Canadian and EU officals have confirmed it. The whole point of this exercise is to get the EU to really embrace the idea that Canada has what they want, and if they help us invest in the infrastructure, we can get the stuff over there.

You're comparing two types of "attack" that are at entirely different scales, both in complexity to achieve and escalation. On the daily, you need a means to detect and deter drones, and to maintain physical security measures like fences and clear approaches to the fences. Long before a truck...

We can't get support to buy a functional automated weather observation system(AWOS) to free-up nearly 1/3 of my trade to do actual value added work, because there hasn't been money or attention for anything that isn't a deployment since at least when I joined in Jan 2001. AWOS's exist, around...

I'm not suggesting that polar bears are the primary reason people don't/won't want to live there. I was just highlighting that they are a very real problem, and nothing like the other bears most people have some degree of experience with. People generally don't think about what the reality of...

The CAF has been making efforts to fix recruiting and retention problems since 2015.. making efforts and being successful are very different things. I'm not suggesting Churchill is impossible to staff with workers, I'm simply suggesting that hand waving away personnel issues, and more...

You keep saying things like this, but the reality is, the people required to run a year-round port, and all of it's attendant facilities likely don't live there already... Why would they, with no employment in their highly specialized fields, and with their years of experience... So yes...

They are deep in their echo-chambers, and are counting on enough voters to be in the same position. Based on what I have seen online, they may not be wrong... People are weirdly tribal about everything, and not really engaging outside their small circles. It's essentially all the downsides...

Slight derail... but when I was PMC of the NDHQ C&PO's mess, there was talk of leasing a space in a mall, so there there was parking, and a more suitable location than directly downtown could be used. It went nowhere in my time, but it was discussed at least.