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Agreed. Modern armoured plate is a laminate or matrix of metal and ceramic, with other layers of rubber and kevlar underneath or on top of it (like anti spalling liners and spaced rubber). The hull of the tank frame is likey steel at its base, but all the crap you pile on top of that certainly...

I have some serious respect for the current defence minister. She's putting in a lot of hours to get that new Defence Policy worked out and even more hours to ensure that every person in DND feels safe to come to work. Given the revelations the last few years that's an admirable and legitimate...

You are literally describing the reason my entire trade exists.

I'm doing this. Also until you pointed it out I didn't really recognize Dave in that photo.

Based on what the CDS told a fireside I was in this week that's pretty accurate. New subs will have to be one of the myrad conventional ones out there.

The gun CSC is getting is specifically designed to take VULCANO. Nice snipe of an article! It's not part of the fixed equipment. It's a lawn chair you can move to the bridge wings if you need to... cup holder and everything!

There you go. The Org Chart you all wanted....

So you want a Pirates of the Caribean flag then?? With an eyepatch? Just joking though, I know you want a specific to HMCS Winsor flag.

I should have been more clear. Non-routine msgs are dealt with this way. Routine ones are PKI signature and email. I actually save time walking a non-routine msg around. I don't have to hope someone responds to emails quickly, I can just brief who needs to be briefed and get the approval...

Like hell it isn't. I've seen more then one Adjt flash out their green pen with relish on more then one occation. It may have gone by the wayside but I have seen it over the years. Msg's require an approved and signed paper copy before they go out electronically. As well as a bunch of other...

Not necessary but I wouldn't call it ridiculous. It gives instant feedback to the CO on who has signed what when paperwork arrives on his desk. He can see orange for the CSEO, Blue for OPS, Green for XP and know that it's gone through all the different people it needs to without trying to...

Agree and also more likely given the massive tail that nuke boats need. I have had some good convo's with some RN Nuke Engineering counterparts and keeping engineering watches filled on those boats is an extreme challenge. The technical skills are high and the number of people who can do them...

It's not a 65% it a 65 percentile, which puts you in the top 35% of people who took the test. So good job!

Not this green lot. Nuclear = near carbon neutral. Also a lot less time spent doing irritating things like going the fueling jetty... lol.

Yah no chits or claims to be signed in Orange, thats a no-no. Wait for the JSS which has almost all green light vice red light (NVG compliant). XO's sig will then be the one disappearing. I get it about the pen colour though. Some are hard core into it, and some are not. I personally only...

Personally wouldn't give a crap. It's only applicable on Remembrance Day anyways. I'm sure the RCN will do that when the Army decides that the RCA and Engineers should have right of the line before everyone else. Oh and about a half dozen militia units that can trace their history to 1812...

It's taught as a "this is an important milestone in RCN history" but not a "read this a write an essay on it" way. SLQ etc... same sort of thing.

This is the problem. The fact that you automatically dismiss the problem. Well there is something wrong with Heart of Oak. Plenty have been saying it for years. Its British and NOT something Canadian, and unlike a lot of inherited British ceremonial it hasn't evolved. And that's the core of...

I dunno, for the RCN I'm all about overturning irrelevent UK decended traditions. Frankly the only place that holds onto them with a death grip is the naval reserve, and some wardroom historians (and those whose job it is like Buffers). Reg F does not care about them hardly at all from my...