Recent content by SupersonicMax

You can still mark those transitions without a parade. How much time is wasted preparing for a parade that could be used at better, more meaningful tasks? Yes. DM me your DWAN email and I’ll send it later today.

DND and the CAF are talking with the TBS (at fairly high levels) about those issues. But the TBS needs to be convinced. And that’s the difficult part.

There shouldn’t be any parade. It should be a sit-down ceremony per the RCAF reconstitution directive.

It goes back to the mantra that is taught early on to fighter pilots: you aim to be humble, credible and approachable.

I was merely addressing dimsum’s comment regarding ship availability.

It is possible set up a voluntary program, in which companies pledge x number of ships to a civil reserve fleet that when activated, the provider is obligated to support the armed forces, a bit like the US Civil Reserve Air Fleet. Voluntary program (with incentives) and when activated, the...

To be fair, it’s not far from how many of our fleets operated until recently.

It was well known, during the First Gulf War, that Iraq had WMDs.

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Also, gotta be PY neutral…

I am talking about the CC295. We have other issues with our Hercs and paratroopers but that’s unrelated.

Looks like Vance returned his CMM. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jonathan-vance-order-of-merit-1.6445250

I agree we have other big issues but it doesn’t absolve our institutional responsibility to address discrimination. I don’t know whether religious bigotry has an effect on retention (though I suspect it does have an effect, perhaps not as visible as housing, equipment, pay, etc), but it...

The issue isn’t when jumping per se but when a static line parachutist becomes hung up.

Well trained admin officers I see!