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The one loving time that the MPs decide they want to work... There's as close to zero awareness out on the coast here that there ever was a presence by a regular force Infantry battalion, and unfortunately I can't get the time off to come back to Edmonton for the celebrations. Have a bunch of drinks at the Better 'Ole for me. Also, CBC put up a pretty decent history piece on the Regiment, complete with videos and interviews - including Hub Grey, who gave a speech to us a few years during Ric-a-dam-doo in Shilo. Turns out, the Korean war had some pretty horrific moments. His description of fending off the human wave assaults by the Chinese with his machine gun platoon (5-ton trucks with quad machine guns on each - meant primarily for AA) was  http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/interactive/princess-pats/
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iraq-conflict-canada-to-fly-weapons-to-kurdish-forces-battling-isis-1.2737723 Looks like we're shipping some boom over to the Kurds to help them with the ISIS problem. Too bad we have to send it to them for them to use instead of directly delivering boom to ISIS courtesy of 425.
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Kazinsal posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iraq-conflict-canada-to-fly-weapons-to-kurdish-forces-battling-isis-1.2737723 Are you nuts A) Our CF-18s will only operate in secured airspace and as much as I dislike Harper, he's smart enough to know that the consequences of having one of our Hornets shot down by a MANPADS and the pilot publicly tortured and beheaded would mean the end of his government. B) Why are we contributing anything to EITHER side? This isn't our fight, it's never been our fight, we shouldn't be sticking our noses in it.
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MA-Horus posted:B) Why are we contributing anything to EITHER side? This isn't our fight, it's never been our fight, we shouldn't be sticking our noses in it. Ya I really don't get why we're doing this. Until these sandfrican-Americans(I just really felt like using that term) hit us at home, who gives a gently caress what they do to each other. We need to be a little more isolationist.
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MA-Horus posted:B) Why are we contributing anything to EITHER side? This isn't our fight, it's never been our fight, we shouldn't be sticking our noses in it. You could say this about everything since the Boer War.
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Didn't we also just fly "non-kinetic" support to The Ukraine? I wonder what would have happened with a Tory government in '02-'03..
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Frosted Flake posted:Didn't we also just fly "non-kinetic" support to The Ukraine? We would have gone to Iraq and the Canadian Forces would have essentially been destroyed as a functional military force, as well as a huge amount of reservists being asked to join in. As to my previous point of "Why are we supporting anyone", there is literally no support that we could offer that would make any change to the situation. Any "support" we could provide would end up being inconsequential. There are only potential disadvantages to doing this, and no real advantages.
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Finally got a PFT loading message I can't weasel out of. Put up or shut up time.
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Does anyone have any spare N/S Tags lying around I need to staplegun some to my legs. gently caress you Leg Day. Also I find it very funny that I'm much more motivated to stay fit now that I don't have people yelling at me anymore.
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The new building for 443 Sqn is loving insane. The unit must be going bigtime, there's like quadruple the hangar space and all sorts of crazy maintenance and other infrastructure. Big change from a few helos in tiny 70 year old buildings. So, if you want to know where the CF budget went, I found it. Not complaining though.
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Maybe it's changed since the last time I went to the CFNBCS, but isn't Borden still a remote dump? lovely kitchens, poor quarters and enough PATs to effectively run a drug trafficking and prostitution ring... I'll take Edmonton. At least my prostitutes aren't my future Cpls.
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CumshotCommando posted:I'll take Edmonton. At least my prostitutes aren't my future Cpls. Women in the military, military in the women, what's the difference?
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Canuck-Errant posted:Women in the military, military in the women, what's the difference? One gets paid for the pleasure.
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Hell, I'm from Barrie and I still wouldn't want to be posted to Borden!
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There was a guy who loved getting Class B's with Whiskey Battery in Borden, kept going back.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-peacekeeping-exercise-to-include-13-canadian-soldiers-1.2755247 WRAP IT UP PUTINAILURES. Have we reached peak Air Farce yet?
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Vadoc posted:There was a guy who loved getting Class B's with Whiskey Battery in Borden, kept going back. that everything-flavoured wings joint just outside the base is the best reason to go to Anguish the second-best reason is because that's how you get the hell out of Borden forever
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WATCH HARPER START A loving WAR
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MA-Horus posted:Are you nuts The Kurds seem to be the only group in the region worth supporting, and this way Harper can at least be seen to do something. And as much as I dislike Stevie H I dont think this is such a bad move.
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Frosted Flake posted:WATCH HARPER START A loving WAR But not increase military budgets, because that'd be silly
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Canuck-Errant posted:But not increase military budgets, because that'd be silly Latest theory is that he explicitly directed the CF to cut fat drastically from HQs a few years ago, was explicitly ignored (how many HQs have shrunk? How many have grown?) and we are therefore being punished. We have probably the most top-heavy military in at least the West, could even be in the running worldwide, but by it's nature it is self-perpetuating and will never, ever shrink itself. I'm sort of inclined to buy the theory, too.
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At one point I think Ottawa had three high level HQs that all did the same job and occupied 3 separate locations outside of NDHQ.
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Mr.48 posted:The Kurds seem to be the only group in the region worth supporting, and this way Harper can at least be seen to do something. And as much as I dislike Stevie H I dont think this is such a bad move. Yeah but it's all token. Steve-O can beat his chest about Russian expansionism or the threat of ISIS but what gets contributed? 11 peacekeepers? 1 plane load of supplies? Sure he can say "we provided aid" or "we supplied troops" when in actuality nothing of any significant value was done. Action in name only.
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Real talk for a sec I was hoping the Dano-Canadian War would materialize over Hans Island but this Ukraine business sounds like a European conflict I can get behind compared to syria
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The fact that Captains and lieutenants have 10 separate pay levels should answer any question about the CF being too top-heavy. I'd prefer Syria to Ukraine. Ukrainians and Russians know how to aim. Your average Haji does not.
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You'd rather fight the ones who'd use IEDs, don't wear a uniform so they look no different than anyone else as soon as they toss away their weapon or blow you up at a checkpoint with their car or wearing a bomb, or just sending some dumb kid with a grenade as well as having been hardened by fighting already for over a year vs Russian poorly paid conscripts wearing a uniform who will at least likely follow most of the rules of war? Not to mention Ukrainian allies who know how to shoot vs the 'allies' in the Middle East who more than likely to shoot you in the back because they're actually IS/Taliban/whatever?
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Barrakketh posted:I'd prefer Syria to Ukraine. Ukrainians and Russians know how to aim. Your average Haji does not.
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Vadoc posted:You'd rather fight the ones who'd use IEDs, don't wear a uniform so they look no different than anyone else as soon as they toss away their weapon or blow you up at a checkpoint with their car or wearing a bomb, or just sending some dumb kid with a grenade as well as having been hardened by fighting already for over a year vs Russian poorly paid conscripts wearing a uniform who will at least likely follow most of the rules of war? Not to mention Ukrainian allies who know how to shoot vs the 'allies' in the Middle East who more than likely to shoot you in the back because they're actually IS/Taliban/whatever? I'd take that over tanks, IFVs, and aircraft. You make it sound pretty lovely but at the end of the day if it was a conventional war we would've had a hell of a lot more losses. I'd definitely be dead today if the guys we were fighting in Afghanistan knew how to aim.
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MA-Horus posted:Are you nuts It becomes our fight when the IS "Caliphate" becomes Taliban Afghanistan 2.0 and starts exporting Terrorism like Canada exports politeness.
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DrakeriderCa posted:It becomes our fight when the IS "Caliphate" becomes Taliban Afghanistan 2.0 and starts exporting Terrorism like Canada exports politeness. Quite frankly, I'm waiting to see what the Americans are going to do. They've been talking big, "persue to the gates of hell", etc. I know some guys in GiP are getting hard-ons for replays of Rolling Thunder, and just flattening the fuckers with box formations of BUFFs. Because like it or not, any action we could or could not take is directly reliant on what they do.
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MA-Horus posted:Quite frankly, I'm waiting to see what the Americans are going to do. They've been talking big, "persue to the gates of hell", etc. I know some guys in GiP are getting hard-ons for replays of Rolling Thunder, and just flattening the fuckers with box formations of BUFFs. Because like it or not, any action we could or could not take is directly reliant on what they do. I just want to make sure the delicate lady folk of Winnipeg aren't wearing burqas this time next year Whether we drill skulls with 5.56 or dump trailer loads of JDAMs I'm good with whatever
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DrakeriderCa posted:I just want to make sure the delicate lady folk of Winnipeg aren't wearing burqas this time next year do they even make wool burqas what if they were Canada Goose down-filled burqas with fur trim
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But not real fur trim. That's cruel. e: uhhhh I thought this was canpoli. Sorry, servicemembers!
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Canuck-Errant posted:do they even make wool burqas You will only be issued one, ever, and it will arrive approximately three months after winter.
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stevobob posted:How's Winnipeg as a posting? I did some courses on that base and I'd say it would be awesome if it wasn't in loving Winnipeg
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