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  1. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Trump's believers are proof of the old saying: You can fool all the people some of the times, some people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time. But even some of those in yellow are now slowly migrating into the last category. :)
  2. Oldgateboatdriver

    Who needs sailors anyway?

    Well, Robot towed by a big fat manned vessel to drone RAS.
  3. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canada to Spend $5.0Bil on AEW Aircraft (Saab Globaleye)

    Pretty sure the Rafale is made by Dassault (which already has a Montreal office, BTW). Rafael is an Israeli defense builder. As for ITAR, unless I am mistaken, the only ITAR item in the Gripen is the GE gaz turbine. I know it's a redesign matter, but if the US blocks such a sale, then, were I...
  4. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    And onions. Gotta have onions for the French Onion soup. :)
  5. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    Yes. But not "large warehouses" of "materiel". Unless we have a different definition of "materiel". To me, that's always had a connotation of military prefabricated spare parts. The Cape's didn't carry that. They carried raw materials. And the extra stores for them were not that big. The...
  6. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    Well, if they did, I completely missed them. I lived onboard CAPE BRETON for two summers in a row in the late 70's. That's where the officer cadets of the naval reserve lived while under training. And I crawled all over that ship and didn't see any "large warehouse". She had the usual stores you...
  7. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    IMHO, that calls for getting the US ambasssador in to see the minister of foreign affair (whatever they now call her) to be given a formal letter of reprimand to deliver to the president of the US.
  8. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    No. The Cape class vessels were fleet maintenance ships, not supply.
  9. Oldgateboatdriver

    CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

    No. He got pardoned in full by Trump 45. But in my book a pardon means you are still a convicted felon, unless the pardon was specifically referenced to a miscarriage of justice.
  10. Oldgateboatdriver

    CAN-USA Tariff Strife (split from various pol threads)

    Try Obstruction of Justice. It's not nice to drive out of a basement with files you are going to destroy in advance of a known search coming up.
  11. Oldgateboatdriver

    What the competition is up to

    Well, with the uniforms that just came out for the Space Force, why not raid another one from Starship Trooper: Service guarantees citizenship.
  12. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    IIRC, that was the plan but then someone wanted to load them up with Swiss knife mission kits and call them Afloat Logistic Support Ships, which then got confused with the "Big Honking Ships" of a certain general, and at the end of all that confusion, Treasury balked when the first bid from...
  13. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    We are. I think you meant fourth generation. Gen 1: Provider Gen 2: Preserver and Protecteur Gen 3: the new Protecteur class.
  14. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    The picture is from the official video.
  15. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Well, it is a Land of Confusion, and these are the hands we're given.
  16. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    Looks like they are using the same HVAC system as the HALIFAX's for the RDC: It says right there: "Warning: choking hazard"
  17. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    If that doesn't give Vance an opening to become president, nothing will.
  18. Oldgateboatdriver

    Do we need Cadets? Should they be military/uniformed? (split from Trump administration 2024-2028)

    Seen. My bad. But the interpretation I have given has been the view of many employers I spoke with. I guess they figure what you do for them is not something that results from or is connected with his military service, which for most reservists is correct.
  19. Oldgateboatdriver

    Do we need Cadets? Should they be military/uniformed? (split from Trump administration 2024-2028)

    Yes. That one has always been a big headache for reservists. You are serving in the primary reserve, but your full time job is in research for a pharmaceutical company. So long as it's primary reserve service, you are OK because, when not serving on class A, B or C (i.e. when you are NOT doing...
  20. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Actually, I find them closer to these uniforms, of the Galactic Empire: https://www.deviantart.com/grand-lobster-king/art/Star-Wars-Imperial-Officer-Uniforms-840722320 Who knew that two evil empires could have similar uniforms?
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