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Just a reminder here: Admiral Jarok: "What you call massacres were called the Norcon campaign in my world. One world's butcher is another worlds hero. Perhaps I am neither one." Star Trek T.N.G. "The defector" I always like to keep an open mind that people can and have changed.

G2G, if you could find a country that doesn't spy on foreign diplomats - other than Iceland and Costs Rica - I would be very surprised. And note here that the "leak" seem to be from civil servants, not an elected official. If the original info came from another member of the five eyes, I...

Every farmer will tell you that there is incontrovertible proof that homosexuality is a natural part of life: They have observed in every flock of geese, or herd of cattle, horses or sheep, etc. a certain percentage of animals that prefer to stick to their own sex for ... sex and companionship...

No one that I still know in the RCN wants to go back to the square rig for sailors. Heck, even when reintroducing the Elliot's eye, the RCN did not tamper with the unified rank system of the CAF. We simply put Elliot's eyes on top of the officers bars without changing the system at all. It's the...

The real Privy Council is a huge group of people that includes all sorts of people, including for instance all the lawyers who are QC or KC, all past and present Lieutenant-Governors, the various provinces First ministers, judges of Federal courts, the CDS (yep -look it up) etc. etc. And once...

Denmark uses the RRS rules. What they call "polar" is actually "Arctic", so the Polar 5 level they describe is equivalent to our PC 6. That is summer navigation (notice they don't say icebreaking, but navigation) in the Arctic i.e. mostly open water or going through some patches of growlers made...

Funny, I typed the same thing you did in Google and didn't get the selection you got. Then again I don't see why the article about the service's birthday would come up on top. Correct that it's a DEU. The "E" stands for "environment", not Command. Is 200 to 300 promotions in the storesman (or...

Easy: Do you work for MARLANT, MARPAC, COMNAVRES or Naval HQ Ottawa? You are in the RCN. According to Wiki, that's 12,000 people. First of all, there is no such thing as an RCN DEU, there are three environmental DEU, one of which in "Naval", but it is not exclusive to the RCN, which is a...

I was only half joking. But the point here is that a branch and a command cannot be compared. By definition, any command, like the RCN, will include all sorts of branches, including Log. Moreover, the Log Branch includes numerous trades as a branch, which most other branches do not...

I only recently learned of the passing, of natural causes on August 1st 2023, of Alex Graf, retired sergeant who served with the Royal Canadian Hussars, then the 8th Canadian Hussars, followed by the Lord Strathcona's Horse, saw service in Bosnia and Kosovo before retiring in 2014. I am sure...

I tend to agree with you, Kirkhill, with one small caveat: While the businessmen who ran the North west company and Montreal were mostly Scottish (and were crewed by the English like everybody else), they could only operate and manage what they did because the rank and file who did most of the...

I understand. My original point was that just because a pub or training aid is old doesn't necessarily mean that it's obsolete. That was all I meant to convey.

No it ain't. Canada is a mish-mash of the past of Britons ( from French Brittany), often doing the bidding of Scottish bankers and Irish catholics who came to escape English dominion by exploring and opening for business the West, at least East of the Rockies, by trading with natives as equals...

Can you be more specific? When you say she shared "some things from out there", do you mean UVIC or her Southern Alberta small town ?

Another News Era came to an end this morning when Chuck Todd signed off for the last time as moderator of Meet the Press. I will miss Data Download and am real curious to see where the new moderator will take the show. It is a newscast I always try and make sure I watch every week.

I know, Chief - I was on HMS Dovey with the Glasgow unit for two weeks in 93.

When the Naval Reserve had to re-learn minesweeping in the mid-90's to prepare for the MCDV, they had to refer to the Admiralty Manual of Seamanship .... .... ....(1952). The last one with the evolution in it. ;) Some things don't change in the military. It works and is still the solution...

Actually, it does, for three reasons: (1) It is where the fleet schools are right now, why move them? (2) we "home port" the NCM's so that they can spend their whole career in the same harbour. If you had to ship them away to another town to train, it would wreck the system, and (3) ditto for...