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I was at the tattoo at the Civic Centre in Ottawa when the DEUs were revealed to the public for the first time on parade. I could hear someone behind me mutter that the navy folks were "all dressed like petty officers..."

I wasn't going to mention that...

Except for the odd decision to copy the wide black ring worn by US Army general's on their service dress back in the day, only in gold. When the CA reverted to unification rank insignia for generals after pips and crowns were reintroduced I could sort of see the logic in alignment of the maple...

Don't think we're disagreeing. I'd just argue that it was under PET that the perception really began to change, and maybe under the influence of 60's counter culture and Vietnam. But up until then, I think there was a fairly high degree of political consensus in support of NATO and NORAD and...

A case can always be made any new approach. I'm not one to argue the case for unification, but it seems some of our closest allies (US/UK/AUS) have over the intervening years experimented with different approaches to "jointness." While the UK has a joint helicopter force, the squadrons remain in...

I may be wrong, but despite carrying the name of their patron, they only very briefly ever had a "Royal" colonel-in-chief. Princess Patrica gave up her Royal status shortly after her appointment when she married a commoner, and was Lady Patricia for the rest of her life. And while Countess...

The Liberals won 4 seats in AB in the '93 election, the first time they'd won seats there since '68. All of them were in Edmonton...

Pretty sure the decision to move 1RCR out of London came in the wake of the 1988 election when the Liberals re-took the area ridings from the Tories.

In olden times wasn't it brown shoes for officers and black parade boots for NCMs? In any event, unless they're going with a black Sam Browne for officers, surely they'd be going with brown shoes.

Didn't it take a while for Italy to agree to an exemption? I seem to recall that when we were in Lahr in the early 70s there were guys who couldn't deploy with their units to Italy for that reason.

Happy New Year!

No doubt they're already lining up the lawyers...

Essentially a 1-1 replacement for the in-service Auroras?

Link to the release: Canada purchasing up to 16 P-8A Poseidon Multi Mission Aircraft for the Royal Canadian Air Force - Canada.ca

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