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Thanks. So its pretty much up to each unit whether they do colours or not.

Im not directly connected to the Forces anymore, so can someone tell me what the official ruling on colours is. The staff college seems to do sunrise and sunset colours, but ASU at the Downsview base dont seem to ever lower the flags.

Noticed the public service websites have had some job openings in Victoria the last couple of months. QC, senior hull inspectors, senior machinery inspectors, all for the sub program. Now, when that many people are getting hired all at once for a DND program, it usually means that either the...

When I went home on leave in the early 80's my uncle tried a couple of times to get me in to the local legion as a guest. I got treated like something that should be scraped off a shoe. The legion made it very clear that post 45 service members were not welcome for a long time. They slammed the...

Anyone here have any experience with the Commissionaires? Good, bad, PITA , pay? Any information would be appreciated, I need something to do in my old age, but I'd like an outside opinion if possible.

All day I saw pictures of the coffins in transit and then I get to hear CTV proclaiming Harper is Bush lite and he's trying to hide the coffins. they actually used the phrase "Canada's Iraq"........

How can you compare Germany and Japan to Iraq?  Both were culturaly homogenous non-tribal societies. Allowing Sunni Baathists to retain control of the military and bureaucracy would have been a complete disaster. The Kurds and Shia would never accept that.

The  Clinton generals don't get along with Rumsfield? Gee, thats a real surprise. Clinton picked democrat generals, Bush and Rummie houscleaned them and picked republican generals. And the politics of the Pentagon grind on..... (Anybody else old enough to remember the Carter generals claiming...

So Ol ' Eric is trying to make a comeback.  One of the great moments of CBC news history was Peter Mansbridge being so respectfull as Margolis sneered at the idiot Americans lying about being near Baghdad, how they were bogged down in a bloodbath a 100 klicks away, etc. etc. etc. Eric the expert...

Now this is just getting stupid. Reporting an over heated control transformer as a fire?  The boat didn't even surface. This is just idiot PR people paranoid over being accused of a coverup. As for the people who want us to buy "new, good kit"...    what, like the newest Seawolf class sub in...

To answer the refuelling question. no, AOR's cannot refuel SSK's at sea.  No need, really, the Victorias have a range of 18500 klicks. Don't use much when the boat is on station, either.

http://www.forces.gc.ca/dhh/downloads/honours/SSM_NATO_SHIPS_e.pdf That will give you the dates. 26 April 88 to 21 JUL 88 Skeena was on Stanavforlant. Doesn't look like Ottawa relieved her though.

http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2005/10/carter-departs-for-new-homeport-twice.html#comments For those who still think a sub taking water down the conning tower hatch must be incompetance.

!!!!Warning, middle aged nostalgia!!!!!  not that this will make a lot of sense to most people, but you can blame HFXcrow for getting me started  ::) You just had to remind me of Deano Marsaw, didn't you? I only knew him as a junior officer. He was well respected...by his seniors. Those of...

Subs became a regular posting in 1988 shortly after the boats had to be tied up for lack of qualified people. Manning was a real mess in the mid-eighties. It actually happened to people that as soon as their boat tied up from a cruise, they were ordered to grab their kit, trot down the jetty to...