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It’s not always the lifer thrice married types either. I had a young guy who had half his pay check going to crap he’d bought at the CANEX on their payment plan, only to hock it in downtown Victoria for drug and booze money.

How’s your new guy working out? He seemed a good catch.

A long-held senior NWO desire to destroy the ‘Stoker Mafia’. . . Well, there’s likely a lot more to it than that since the short-sighted training material purge affected more than Mar Eng, but that’s the general consensus of my conspiracy theory peers who saw it all happen.

I was a Lorne Scots cadet. Does that count?

Well, she did survive the local mass cull of 2001.

I have. I agree with Halifax Tar. I was his CERA on ALG for 18 months. He was a mission-focused go-getter with no tolerance for bullshit. He had a lot of time for the MSE department, more so than any other CO I’ve served under. As a department, we had a ‘splice the main brace’ under him at...

Is this the one going up next to the 4 Mile?

Seeds for this were sown decades ago. I’m a 1985 Ontario Grade 13 grad. I could have left in ‘84 after Gr. 12, but feeling fairly listless it made sense to stick around for the extra ‘free’ year of school. What I wasn’t expecting was to be force-fed how important a uni education was by the...

I blame the ‘peacekeeping myth’ for much of that as it applies to the public’s view of most things military.

I guess you never saw Star Blazers as a kid. Surcouf is just being a Yamato walt.

George Cairns.

Yes!! Shady tree mechanics make a comeback. Oh wait, would wrenching under a tree lead to a fine?

This guy certainly doesn’t get enough. One of four VC recipients from BC during the war, and the only Vancouver Islander: https://burmastarmemorial.org/vc-major-charles-hoey The VC citations for the Burma Campaign are truly epic. Two were awarded after the recipients were either run through or...

For true trigger porn, there’s a few videos where he’s teamed up with the Forgotten Weapons guy.

The RN evaluated SHINMACs as it was referred to back then, back in 1985. Remember the blue paper back RN engineering journals? We used to get issued those in the late 8os/early 90s, even on the old sweepers. Lots of good post-Falklands analysis stuff. Here's a link to the '85 evaluation...

Yep, probably worse to some extent. Price of urban real estate/cost of living has extended the latte sippers’ influence due to urban sprawl. No better example for this than Squamish. More like North/West Vancouver than the Squamish of even twenty years ago. My aunt and uncle who had been...

With socks. Not that I’ve tried. To your point though, urban and rural BC may as well be different countries.

True enough, but a pound off Folgers would also get you something machined/welded/painted without a work order. That was a loooong time ago :)

With two trumped 280s on the west coast from 1995 onwards, there was only a crew and a half for both with only one at high readiness. If both were at sea, it was local waters only and I only remember that happening once. Having HUR decommissioned and tied up in 2000 with a skeleton crew...