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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    The weapon systems one is interesting, it seems like there is zero appetite to have completely uncrewed at all when there are weapons and sensors, so there will always be some kind of force protection type component, as the actual legality of an uncrewed ship with weapons is still a bit up in...
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    It's interesting talking to other navies working on this how many people are actually on the 'unmanned' ships, and how frequently they are crewed. Some countries are now using 'optionally crewed' instead to differentiate. For the collision, not sure how anyone could have engineered the bridge...
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    Trust in our Institutions

    Forget politics I have no trust in the RCN as an institution, why should the GoC writ large be any different?
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    Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    The technical term is 'fucking fucked'. Took out a main pillar. Sounds like 6 people are missing and presumably dead, pretty brutal. That is a really long bridge run so even with it being a slow speed (but really heavy collision) not sure if someone already on the bridge even had time to get...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    We 'accept the risk', and ships frequently deploy on HR operations with defects that don't meet basic SOLAS requirements (let alone have combat survivability capabilities). It's a bone of contention as we used to delay sailings sometimes to actually repair things; that's a lot more rare, even...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    That doesn't really translate into working equipment though when budgets for parts, training, in service projects etc get cut, and capitol projects get slowed down by the government (while also needing more people to do the project work because of the ludicrous bureaucracy). Because the ops...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Yeah, fair point, I think that's insane. Even with the people taking deployed leave you can get it covered by a small group so that one person will cover off 4 or 5 leave blocks for their peers so the actual rotation of crew is pretty minimal, aside from the one off positions, where it's a...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Not really, a lot of our billets are a combination of having a job while doing training, so pretty normal to be working on OJTs for the next job while doing one of the MSE positions until you get to the EO/CERA spots (and then you are doing the oversight of training). Tapers way down but no...
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Is that before or after the $800M to in service funding cuts? We not only got turned down for hundred of millions in O&M demand we also are going to eat a cut, so it's a double whammy
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Except the Navy does force generation during force employment, so that balance always causes friction with CJOC.
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    A Deeply Fractured US

    WTAF is their problem? They don't really need any opposition when they are their own worst enemy, and are completely unable to actually govern. The lack of basic competence and ability to adult is amazing; this kind of inability to compromise and work towards a common goal is a fairly basic...
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    Commander of 8 Wing Trenton arrested, charged in hunting incident

    Thanks, that seems reasonable for a city dwelling hunter or target shooter but probably not practical for something like a farm or someone living remotely in an area with bears, coyotes etc. I guess you are probably at pretty low risk though of getting arrested for that, unless you do something...
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    Commander of 8 Wing Trenton arrested, charged in hunting incident

    As a non-gun owner, would 5(1) (b) (i) include something like a trigger lock? If I'm reading it correctly, the long gun needs to be unloaded, locked up (or unable to fire) and have the ammo also locked up in a separate container?
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    Logistic Officer questions

    For sure, but I never had to explain the basic contracting process to a post AHOD Navy log two ringer before, or walk them through section 34, but may have been an outlier that I was dealing with that didn't have any real experience thrown into a senior position.
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    Logistic Officer questions

    Ah, that makes more sense. Wonder how many times they wrote on the screen with crayon before trying MS paint?
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