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Float, Move, Fight is their mantra. The ship needs to float (hull techs) and it needs to move (stokers) for it to effectively fight (ETs and CSEs for sensors and weapons). MARS/NWO and Combat trades are then able to tactically use the ship and its sensors to fight the battle.

Same as The Market and Vanier in Ottawa.

https://x.com/jengerson/status/1729578170909606212?s=46&t=2YOOnHysFxMPbhww7fXPfQ

^^^ What was unsaid was we now seeing the bow wave of people who stuck around after FRP and the recruiting freeze now retiring. I realize that cohort is no longer in the fleet, but the gap behind them is huge to say the least.

So its success stories can be documented on one sheet of Fax?

According to the one of the major Canadian media companies, a Crown Corporation - (The Canadian Commercial Corporation or CCC is a federal Crown corporation mandated to support the growth of international trade by helping Canadian exporters gain access to foreign government procurement markets.)...

Do we not need to replace the executive fleet?

Maybe Bombardier had successfully lobbied the government that they could produce a cheaper, longer range C17 at half the cost. Then promptly forgot?

^^^^ But the costs!!!! It’s always about the Costs. 😑

Remember the Liberal MPs who said those planes would never be used?

I heard a rumour on Friday that the Mayor of Toronto wants to use all DND properties in the GTA for homeless and refugee housing, and that DND would still pay all the costs to maintain those properties. Any truth to that?

Canadian Aerospace Companies push back against Bombardier, which is about bloody time. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-aerospace-firms-push-back-against-bombardier-tout-upsides-of-a-boeing/

That is not the priority of this government at all.

And the government wonders why we have trust issues with them. https://paulwells.substack.com/p/our-dumb-country-an-occasional-series?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2 Readers should be warned that today’s post will take the form of a “shaggy dog story,” the term of art for a very long...

Because there was no social media in the dark ages, behaviour like this usually resulted in getting your face caved in. And you got no sympathy from mom and dad for being a bloody idiot.