Recent content by Blackadder1916

Fewer commanders to object to questionable orders?

Has something changed? Individuals who access "Protected B" information needed only "Reliability Status". Of course other caveats apply depending on the physical location or IT system that the individual may need to access to perform their job...

If I was to write a lexicon of nicknames for army equipment, I would title it "Housewives and Horsec**ks". DON'T GOOGLE IT! While nobody has copyrighted it for that subject, those two words together gets a lot of hits.

What's the confusion? They can hate both. Though they may be confused why people are calling soccer "football".

Reflecting back more than half a century to when I did Driver Wheeled as an already licensed driver, there was not much repetition of the basics I learned in operating a civilian car. Besides the DDC and Safe Backing, most of the time was spent on "military driving" - those important lessons...

And just like that, it's gone. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/corb-lund-re-apply-for-petition-9.7014954 https://www.producer.com/news/alberta-government-throws-corb-lunds-anti-coal-petition-a-curveball/

Same ship, same port, different day. Seems that Ardrossan is not the easiest port to get into when there is any sort of weather. From a comment on a page about CalMac ferries and weather, ". . . It was one of those days when the Captain advises you “stay seated” as she makes the right turn...

This has the likelihood of becoming a major issue for AMEDD. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/us/army-gynecologist-charged-texas.html (without the paywall) https://archive.ph/0p1by...

Weeks and months is moving quickly.

The English language press release https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2025/12/caf-member-arrested-and-charged-in-joint-police-operation-into-foreign-interference-and-security-of-information.html

Flashing back to being at Staff School in the 1980s. They made great use of Video Arts management training videos. I don't know for certain why the products from that company was selected but I've always suspected that the individual responsible was a Python fan (but who wasn't back then)...

But who's going to do anything about it? If a Security Council resolution condemning the action or proposing "anything" was introduced the USA would veto it. It would be exactly the same reaction as when Russia invaded Ukraine. Well, not quite the same. Ukraine, thanks to Russian...

An interesting, recent (2021) monograph about martial race theory from School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth. By a Canadian officer. Martial Race Theory in Contemporary Operational Planning https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1161141.pdf

Like most, my acquired view of Victorian thinking on military service in the subcontinent might stem from watching "Carry On Up The Khyber".

"Your" psychiatrist doesn't clear you medically. He should only provide your medical history, what his diagnosis and prescribed treatment was, how you responded to the treatment, his valid opinion of how you are currently coping (in so far as he is able to observe that) and his opinion of what...