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I think that shows how amazingly adaptable the human body is, but that would pretty much kill anyone not a local. They won't have any allergies though. No one is adapting to nuclear fallout though.

I hear nuking upstream of your water supply is awesome for you as well.

For sure, just don't remember it involving missile attacks into Punjab and artillery fire back previous times, but maybe just not widely reported. The BBC does a much better job covering that region.

Does it seem like the 'targeted air strikes' were based on very old intel, and a bit random? This whole situation seems potentially terrible, and a bit more significant that previous border skirmishes.

OPDEFs are a bit different compared to what you would look at for commercial fleets, as there is also the nuance that some things relate to combat capability, and at some point things get flagged as the ship falling below commercial marine safety standards so additional things kick in. Some...

Yeah, I think that's high value TAVs/FLS type activity. Costs are relatively minimal, especially for military personnel, and generally for RAMPs a lot of the work is known well ahead of time so easy to plan. We spent a bunch of CJOC money, but was a tonne of extra work that a TAV could have...

@Halifax Tar, see where you are coming from, I guess maybe there is a big difference between a simple SOW and doing up 2nd and 3rd line repair specs. That's the kind of thing we have specialists for that scope jobs, figure out the repair requirements, and QC stuff needed to fix it. Those are...

Disagree it's the responsibility of the MSEO; it's a 2nd/3rd line work period, done oversees, and MSEOs don't have the experience/training to know that level of detail (and why you have PLs/spec writers in the FMFs and in 3rd line DWPs, and TAs working in Ottawa). MSEO's responsibility is to...

Now I'm curious what an unusual stationary request would be, did you ask for a red Swingline stapler? Hilariously they are more expensive thanks to Office Space.

It was through the ship agent, but still needed to set up a contract with technical specs for things like high pressure welding, black water pipe repair, painting, and some other things where we didn't have FMF support. Was pretty straightforward after contracting DWPs in Canada, as well as...

Sidebar, but honestly the best thing by far about going to Carling is not having to beg someone to get a pencil or a pen from a locked supply cupboard. Walking into one of the staffed supply rooms and being able to get a few pens, a notebook, dry erase markers etc when I need them is amazing...

Of the top of my head I had some amazing food from India, Nepal and the Carribean in the UK, to be fair.

This is the stupidest thing so far, what would you even use to calculate a tariff on? There is no physical product. And if you do filming in one location, but editing in another and post production somewhere else, what does that even look like? The proliferation of international movies and tv...

It would be great to expand FLS again, especially for the RAMPs so that there is on the ground tech staff to assist in planning and contracting before the ship shows up. When you have a 2 week RAMP, having to spend the first 4 or 5 days working out the contract and technical details leads to a...

Sorry, South Korea, not Saskatchewan. Believe it was the last two on the Tide class. But expect if South Korea was delivering subs, we'd do a lot of trianing in South Korea, same as we did with the Vic class in the UK. Similar things would apply for Spain and other countries in the running...

Yeah, really makes it stupid to put people on a mine sweeper for mine sweeping but design it so it has the option of running with no crew onboard. The sticker shock of reasonably capable ships, even small ones, makes it difficult to see 'optionally crewed' become a thing.

We don't have crews for 3 subs so somewhat irrelevant. The fact that some are in EDWP or turning into parts bins just saves us from admitting that, and similarly the fact that some CPFs docking work periods are changing from 6M (on paper, realistically 2 years) to 4-5 years similarly save us...

Training where though? All that requires new infrastructure which is a 10 year timeline, and ADM(IE) is already struggling to catch up to the requirements for supporting things like northern bases and things for all the incoming planes (SAR, P8s, etc) as well as all the old buildings that need...

We don't have any training facilities for subs, so a lot of it would be in SK, but it was the delivery within 12 months part that I meant. The RN had to pay a commercial SK yard to delay delivery of one of their supply ships because they needed time to get the crew ready, so not just an RCN...