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Unless there is a change, the spending cut is already happening this year, with deeper cuts coming next year.

Just add a /s, with lol!, and it will be cross generational. No real surprise, as we had a stealth cut already this year and expected more, but the audacity of the big giant heads to expect us to keep doing more ops, while cutting resource support, and somehow expecting less people to keep the...

In a related 'Are we the baddies' moment; "We are very self aware" makes me laugh everytime, and I guess guys like Flula balance out the German engineers.

If nothing else this has been a good forcing function to go back and re-read a lot of the history for things I didn't really appreciate at the time when I read about it 30+ years ago as a teen. At the time, outlook on life was a lot more black and white, where now realize things are most shades...

That's another good example of how complicated the whole thing was, as Finland had initially tried to negotiate with Sweden and the UK to help defend against' Russia's invasion, then eventually militarily allied with Germany (but kept separate units). And then ended up fighting against Germany...

In light of the layers of spin and BS that will be coming with the cuts that aren't cuts, push to get away from WFH and other shenanigans, came across this and thought I would share. Nothing I hate more then when you are trying to address serious issues that someone tries to 'focus on the...

Something like that looks simple but there is a lot of support equipment required that isn't shown in a sexy tweet, and things like basic precautions for ammunition safety usually is the result of a lot hard lessons learned (on top of existing commercial rules AOPs is built to, which also are...

WW2 alliances is pretty complicated when you look at it; it seems like a lot of people who fought on the Axis side were more in fighting a common enemy, and less aligned with the Nazis. Definitely were strong ideological collaborators, but when you look at Italy, Japan, and a lot of former...

Holy crap, that seems like a fairly brutal rebuttal of the basic legal arguments they were making as well, while bringing receipts to explain how wrong their arguments were. Just skimming through it but gems like this seem like a written kick in the bar (italics as per the document) I mean...

Uh, wow, can't find a less biased source, but a judge in NY found Trump's business were based on rampant fraud, and is ordering their licence pulled and liquidated? Can't see that not getting pushed to an appeal before actions get taken, but holy crap. Trumpâs business empire could collapse...

That would make a kick ass addendum to a cocktail nametag

No, it's a sponsored PG, I think at RMC, and then they disappear into the puzzle palace. Ironically nothing to do with the CBRN on ships, which is support by the HVAC team. Most of them get poached by Atomic Energy Canada (or whatever they are called now) to work on Nuclear safety oversight. I...

Box ticked, job's a good'un! Funnily we actually usually only have one qualified nuclear safety officer at any time (sometimes vacant), so the positions on the coast are normally filled by some random unqualified two ringer and then the actual qualified person comes down as required when a nuke...

@Underway, great answer; surfacing through the ice is basically icebreaking without the benefits of gravity on all those tonnes bearing down to break the ice. I can't even imagine what would happen to a conventional sub trying to emergency surface through ice, but guessing it would be really...

You apply to the school directly; the CAF doesn't have reserved spots or anything. You can get into a sponsored PG program and get rejected by the school or vice versa, and when you do get in you are still expected to sink or swim on your own merits. Even the quick trade qualifications though...

I get that, it's more the upstairs/downstairs nature of things when we are drowning in levels of oversight and approval gates, and they can't be arsed to google someone before introducing them as a hero in parliament to a foreign leader on a dog and pony tour. It seems like they bundle the...

We're actively seeing cuts now, along with funding increase to keep up with the basics denied, and have been told to expect more cuts to the material side next FY. Also all of our travel is now on hold for the rest of the FY and under scrutiny. Which is especially funny given how they want us...

This is the bit that drives me nuts; a simple google search immediately shows the division was part of the Waffen SS, that's a really low bar for due diligence. People do more to vet restaurants or car parts. The fact that these people are overall responsible for important things is probably...

Which is reasonable, but at the same time, there are lots of immigrants that fought on the Axis side who don't get fetted as heroes in Parliament. At the end of the day, it was a totally unecessary distraction, and if they had spent a few minutes on google it probably wouldn't have happened...

Sure, but sounds more like it was increased to favour the subordinate vice dropped down because of impropriety. Off the top of my head I can think of a few people that sucked up to the CO and got higher scores than dictated by their performance. Anyway, no point speculating I guess; will wait...