Recent content by hauger

Haletown: I take it your an F-35 supporter?  Yes, new airplanes have problems.  The issue is not what these problems are, but what the fixes mean in terms of cost/time.  To use a car analogy, these problems aren't the type that get fixed at the dealership (on delivery) like a sunroof rattle, but...

Interesting Read: Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/12/joint-strike-fighter-13-flaws/

People enrol and are promoted immediately to the rank of Capt. frequently because for all purposes they are MOC qualified.  Examples are Doctors and Lawyers.  After Basic, they do some military familiarization and head off to do the job they already know how to do. It took me all of 5 minutes...

Yes, I'm aware of that.  I'm also aware that the commission is not granted until successful completion of the basic training course (even if it's post dated to before when the course began).  Listen, I don't really care if this guy wears the rank of 2lt or not, but as an untrained hire he should...

Fair, but 2Lt is still a commissioned rank.  No commission = no 2Lt.

I'm pretty sure the recruiting centre made a mistake.  Are you going to St. Jean for your course?  Here's the thing, 2Lt is a Commissioned rank, where Ocdt is not.  Here's what I think happened: - You're a DEO hire (you have a degree).  That entitles you to enter, after basic training, as a...

Glad to hear some people are "fighting the man" and wearing the cap whenever they are able.  What I don't fully understand is what the reasoning is behind the near-Stalinist movement to try and officially bury all traces of the once proud cap.  It seems like at every turn everything short of...

Go figure.  Yet another move to bury the once proud forage cap.  It's really a travesty.  Luckily I "bought" one on points when I still could, although I've never had a chance to wear it with DEU's yet.

Found this on Combat Camera, pretty sure it's in Libya and the 130J. http://www.combatcamera.forces.gc.ca/netpub/server.np?find&catalog=news&template=news-nouvelles_detail_eng.np&field=itemid&op=matches&value=679&site=combatcamera Sounds like the camera man was picking up an ELT on landing. 

Fair enough.  I wasn't trying to make the argument that the fate of either should be changed though, just that infrastructure shouldn't just be divested without truly understanding the long term loss to the forces.  Again, looking at Edmonton, if the Army had at least not developed parts of the...

Good on you, didn't realise AESOP's flew the plane or did ATC work. De-conflicting IFR training routes with approach descents of Toronto traffic  causes problems.  Wedging that in with Kingston traffic causes additional problems.  I never implied it caused serious problems, but it ups the...

Interesting thread, fun to read.  I don't know if I agree with base closures though, there are reasons to have assets available and spread throughout the country.  A good example of not thinking things through in the long term was the closure of the runways in Edmonton.  They took a runway that...

Sooo witty!  Good job with that, that's sure a nice nickname for the plane.

Good shots....taken from the passenger terminal? As a note, 602 was nowhere near Mountainview yesterday.

Meh.  Standard military behavior: if there's a way to suck the fun out of something, the military will. I think the next move should be to make all shower water ice cold, you know, so you'll miss home that much more when your there.