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  1. Messmom

    United Breaks Guitars

    Touchy little bunch here aren't you? Fisrt, where in my post did I suggest he take it as carry on luggage? That's correct folks, I did not. We all know that it is too large. What you do, pay attention here, is buy it a seat. Just like real musicians do for a valued intrument. It is hard to...
  2. Messmom

    United Breaks Guitars

    Putting $5000 guitar in checked luggage? If that don't earn the idiot tag nothing ever will.
  3. Messmom

    United Breaks Guitars

    Some idiot gets his guitar busted up in another country and it somehow became news. We are a sad sad sad people.
  4. Messmom

    What's the dumbest thing you heard said today?

    Well they buried Jackson yesterday, they needed another completely inane and pointless story.
  5. Messmom

    Crossroads in my Career

    Well, I can speak to the NET part of your question at least. Training? You could wind up either in Newfie John or Halifax for the initial trades training and Halifax for sure for the hands on equipment training after all the theory. I wound up doing theory training in both (survived the very...
  6. Messmom

    Canadian Forces Bisley Team 2009 Win Match

    Maybe some of them but not all. I know two of the sailors on the team, I am pretty confident they have let me know if they got to go down under.  ;D I will take a look at their FB pages after I get home and see if they have any updates.
  7. Messmom

    HMCS Corner Brook training in Charlottetown Harbour

    Aye. Even a senior reporter for a Halifax newspaper could not get it right recently. At the Concecration and Presentation of the Queen's Colour to the Canadian Navy, this gent, who has been reporting in this city for decades, refered to the 500 men and women in black uniforms and white peak...
  8. Messmom

    HMCS Corner Brook training in Charlottetown Harbour

    Be kind!! It's the media. Consider ourselves lucky that they recognized it was a sub. A senior Herald reporter still can't tell the difference between a sailor and a soldier. And given how shallow Charlottetown harbour is (muddy C5 dome anyone?), I have to wonder what kind of training...
  9. Messmom

    Free Mandarin buffet for Canadian citizens called a violation of human rights

    >>>>>>>>> Flips through the Charter......... nope, not seeing getting a free meal in there anywhere.
  10. Messmom

    They're baaack! Ceremonial Guard inspected by the Governor General

    Yupper, looked there. It is none of them........... If you look at the fourth picture in the Ottawa Citizen piece, you can just make it out. Light brown with gold stripes. Worn below the CD in precedence. Edit, better pic on the GG's site here, http://www.gg.ca/gg/rr/cc/index_e.asp
  11. Messmom

    They're baaack! Ceremonial Guard inspected by the Governor General

    To get back to the GG!!  8) Anyone know what the second medal is that she is wearing? We noticed it during the Queen's Colour here in Halifax on Saturday, but no one can place it. By the way she did a grand job and looked sharp in her Naval uniform. A little chatty perhaps while inspecting a...
  12. Messmom

    New Nissan Cube in WWII Army Motif

    That's easy, you make it look like a Honda Element or Chevy Aztec......... But hey I actually like the look of THIS Cube.
  13. Messmom

    What's the dumbest thing you heard said today?

    I was sitting there secretly hoping he would answer........ It would not have been a huge surprise. Guy was as sharp as a marble.
  14. Messmom

    What's the dumbest thing you heard said today?

    Well it wasn't today but the best ever was sitting in the Ops Room on board HMCS ******* listening to a radio check being carried out. (Call sign made up, because the memory is the second thing to go.....) "Alpha Charlie Lima, this Alpha Charlie Lima, how do you read, over?" Repeat this twice...
  15. Messmom

    Idiot burglarizes retired boxing champ's house...

    Was thinking the exact same thing. The UK has gone waaaaaaaaaay off the deep end on that count. Probably the only thing that saved him was the fact that he used his fists against a knife.
  16. Messmom

    New Crowsnest

    Cheers! Gotta remember they are publishing it. Someone was pulling the editors leg though. The CEOs on page 6 are on the STBD bridge wing on a frigate, not AthaB.
  17. Messmom

    Does the Navy still train to repel boarders?

    Not really. What we do now is train for a force protection state. Depending on the percieved threat, various weapon systems are manned and damage control teams made ready. The most likely threats are small fast moving boats, either with a couple guys with RPGs or the boat itself loaded down...
  18. Messmom

    Canadian Whisky gets to keep "Glen" in its name

    In the words of my father, "Anyone who would drink Scotch, would fart in church."
  19. Messmom

    HMCS Ville De Quebec - 67 year old navy frigate is coming to Oshawa (!)

    I commissioned VDQ. No wonder I have been feeling like I am dragging my butt lately. 90 plus years old and still a P2!!!
  20. Messmom

    Sonar Tech, worth my time?

    Occam put the spot on it. The NET/NWT trades are in the process of a re-alignment. So none of the trades as they are presently consituted may exist in three or four years. But what may or may not happen in the next while should not have a bearing on what you decide to do. If anything gets...
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