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Yeah my facebooks have a lot of "NOT MY PRIME MINISTER" comments from folks still in. They don't take kindly to being reminded that they serve the Canadian people and if they wanted to serve a cult of personality, I'm sure Kim Jong-Un would be happy to have them.
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It's the ones who shove their stumpy fingers in their ears and deny that his last term was horrible for Canada and that he might just be a despot or a bigot that I find really hard to understand. Maybe it's because I've never lived in Alberta Anyway, the PM isn't my boss, the Clerk of the Privy Council is. My opinion about the government of the day can be anything short of "violent uprising" without being inconsistent with my duties.
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Barrakketh posted:I don't think we have to worry about a dude whose last report can be summed up with "Burn it all down" being too close to the establishment. Besides, we had ex Brigadier Gordon O'Connor as MND and everyone taught what a fine idea that was. Exactly my point. Close doesn't mean friendly.
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acumen posted:I'm getting those too. Even when I left the regs four years ago they were receiving catastrophic budget cuts. That same year we didn't even have enough .338 ammo to run annual quals on the C14's. I left the reg force around the same time and there was a shortage of 105mm rounds, a few planned exercises were cancelled and there wasn't enough 155 howitzers for the recruits, or whatever you want to call post bmq pre-dp1 soldiers, to train on.
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Oct 22, 2015 07:47
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:I left the reg force around the same time and there was a shortage of 105mm rounds, a few planned exercises were cancelled and there wasn't enough 155 howitzers for the recruits, or whatever you want to call post bmq pre-dp1 soldiers, to train on. And now the C3s are...questionable, to be polite about it.
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Oct 22, 2015 11:14
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stevobob posted:There are a lot of 7+ year service guys around me bitter about how much better Canada and the Forces would have been under another Harper term. They're just accelerationists. They were hoping Harper would cut the CAF budget even further than he did.
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Oct 22, 2015 11:17
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The best part about the falling budget was all the people who said "we're small and under-equipped but we're the best trained Army in the world."  " Had to reconcile recruits who never threw grenades or shot LAWs or Carl Gs.
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Oct 22, 2015 18:02
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Frosted Flake posted:The best part about the falling budget was all the people who said "we're small and under-equipped but we're the best trained Army in the world." I've always thought that nebulously falling back on "better trained" when faced with equipment, operational or capability shortfalls is just the 21st century equivalent of the Militia myth.
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LCdr. Jebus posted:I've always thought that nebulously falling back on "better trained" when faced with equipment, operational or capability shortfalls is just the 21st century equivalent of the Militia myth. It's some sort of barely remembered cultural memory - the post war NATO commitment had us doing missions we were good at and chose to fund and train appropriately. There were 12 RCAF Sabre squadrons in Europe alone providing a not insignificant contribution for about a decade. It was over when the Starfighter was foisted on us in the early 60s (and France kicked out NATO forces), and was completely wrecked by unification. Today? We think a 4-pack of 35 year old jets dropping borrowed bombs is a helluva thing. The east coast navy was a premier ASW force, and that's basically all they did. The nails went in that coffin when Bonaventure was decommed, IMO, although we were still doing ASW task group concept poo poo (tanker, destroyer, 2x frigates) in the early 2000s. Think I may have sailed in one of the very last ones in '03 or '04. Now the warfare centre is full of lunatics who think a lone CPF is some sort of reasonable anti-air platform.
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compressioncut posted:Now the warfare centre is full of lunatics who think a lone CPF is some sort of reasonable anti-air platform.  have any of them heard of this new thing called Aegis?
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Oct 23, 2015 23:34
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I met Jody Mitic today. He seemed like a good guy. Signed my book. Also a guy in my Facebook feed unironically referred to himself as a Ronin now that Trudeau is PM.
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DrakeriderCa posted:Also a guy in my Facebook feed unironically referred to himself as a Ronin now that Trudeau is PM. idgi
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Oct 25, 2015 03:13
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It's a feudal Japan thing meaning "samurai with no lord or master". Dude's basically saying Harp-o was his honour-daddy and now that Trudeau's in charge he's a lone warrior.
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Sounds like sedition to me. Is he a dual citizen?
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flakeloaf posted:Sounds like sedition to me. Is he a dual citizen? not as far as I know but he's also out of the CF now so I'm not really sure where he's going with this
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Oct 25, 2015 14:10
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Harper never gave a gently caress about the military and it drives me crazy that that narrative has been so successful.
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DrakeriderCa posted:not as far as I know but he's also out of the CF now so I'm not really sure where he's going with this You're a cop aren't you? I'm sure you have some sort of task force to track sovereign citizens that you can report him to. Frosted Flake posted:Harper never gave a gently caress about the military and it drives me crazy that that narrative has been so successful. Harper did give a gently caress about the military, but in a history nerd way, which is why the only things he really did was bring back rank decorations. To make it more olde timey
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Don't forget adding "royal" back into branch names and also the big War of 1812 commemoration, because a bunch of hoopla over some pointless border skirmish 200 years ago was definitely worth spending $30 million on.
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Oct 25, 2015 20:01
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Some pointless border skirmish that the "Canadian Military" had basically no role in beyond acting as a colonial militia but hey pound the war drums etc.
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Oct 25, 2015 20:26
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Let's commemorate the time we went to South Africa and helped the Afrikaaners take over. Our National Pride.
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:You're a cop aren't you? I'm sure you have some sort of task force to track sovereign citizens that you can report him to Sure. He could actually report himself.  Thankfully he's at least in a different agency than me
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Harper did give a gently caress about the military, but in a history nerd way, which is why the only things he really did was bring back rank decorations. To make it more olde timey Thanks to Harper, I have a different rank name for a while before I'm back to mundane rank names. Also, a propeller on my slip-ons when I'm qualified  Aviator is a stupid rank.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Thanks to Harper, I have a different rank name for a while before I'm back to mundane rank names. The propeller looks like a little bowtie. You're not an aviator, just a fancy private
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Frosted Flake posted:Was Airman too sexist for today's CAF? Ding. Seaman still okay.
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Should've went with Airperson. I would have loved to call someone that.
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I didn't even know it was aviator. I just guessed. Good thing I know now, just did my interview and medical for EGS. Everything's looking good.
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Don't kid yourself, if the Navy had lost its rank titles in unification and only recently got them back it would absolutely be Ordinary/Able/Leading/Master Sailor instead of Seaman.
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LCdr. Jebus posted:Don't kid yourself, if the Navy had lost its rank titles in unification and only recently got them back it would absolutely be Ordinary/Able/Leading/Master Sailor instead of Seaman. Sailor sounds way better than Seaman by all accounts. Better alternative is just to disband the Navy imo
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Melian Dialogue posted:Sailor sounds way better than Seaman by all accounts. Better alternative is just to disband the Navy imo Naw. Seaman is way better than Sailor. If only that I wouldn't want to deprive the other branches of the wealth of single entendre opportunities.
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LCdr. Jebus posted:Naw. Seaman is way better than Sailor. If only that I wouldn't want to deprive the other branches of the wealth of single entendre opportunities. With sailor you can always do the "hello thailor" joke.
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http://news.nationalpost.com/news/c...xual-misconduct So uh apparently dudes in the CF are laughing in the face of Op Honour. Wow this is no laughing matters guys. No really we're a loving disgrace, but at the same time the idea of legislating a change in culture from the top down is absurd. Maybe in 50 years when everyone in the CF is loving dead we'll get a military that isn't super into rape and hating on the gays, until then we ought to keep electing Trudeaus so as to stay out of any engagements where our revolting personnel may come into contact with a human being in possession of dignity.
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Oct 28, 2015 23:14
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Yeah but those guys were too busy shooting at each other in Afghanistan to really get the big picture there, too.
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All RCAF ranks should be birds. Chickadee, (Master) Sparrow, Nightingale, (Master/Chief) Vulture. I guess officers can be condors, falcons, eagles, stuff like that.
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