Recent content by NavyShooter

There's a guy who wrote about about a theoretical EMP attack against North America. https://www.survivalmonkey.com/threads/lights-out-by-halffast-signed-copies-david-crawford.15496/ Interesting....backups are good in the short term, but very inefficient. I have a 10Kw Genset for my house, but...

We did a Disney cruise out of Galveston a few years ago. Amazing time. They have their own private island SE of Florida that they bring you to for a day. I have sailed the Navy way, I've sailed Disney, Princess, Royal Carib, and Norwegian, and they all have their bonuses. The Navy way -...

The problem with diversifying the fleet platforms and adding a mix of T26 and T31 is the training system costs. The idea of a 'cheaper' platform is nice, but there's a whole set of second and third order costs associated. Training is a part. Logistics is another - spare parts for the T31...

Remember (and we lived by this on CHA in Libya in 2011) - ANY SHIP can be a mine-sweeper. Once.

Ah good, we've finally realized that the KIN class are expendable ;-) In all seriousness, it's nice to see a 3rd AOPS so far along, but it's right to say that they are not a replacement for the Kingston class - they have a different role and different capability set.

No, there were known issues with the P320 - drop/bang issues.

Who ever thought this would ACTUALLY be a thing... 6 shot clips for a 9mm revolver.

This is all that came to mind...

Interesting snippet in the news tonight. https://globalnews.ca/news/7614063/jonathan-vance-sexual-misconduct-operation-honour/?fbclid=IwAR3-h_5kM-SJM7xc3T3Yc_fG_uzTly9zSdN78x-oTTVJy6f17v0xtoLXC10 "Former chief of defence staff Gen. Jonathan Vance is facing allegations of inappropriate...

It'd still be nice though if he was able to focus on getting stuff like, y'know, clean water, for Canadians as well. Not saying that things Canada does abroad aren't important too, but how many of our own don't have the basics as well?

Sooo....she tried to pull a Trump?

However, in the interests of being seen to "DO SOMETHING" the Government will, no doubt, ban the sale of former police cars....even though it's not an actual solution to the real problem...

Maybe this is where JV will be heading instead of NATO?

Good point PPCLI Guy. Now, in terms of dollars and cents, looking at the CPI from StatsCan, I see that since 2000, the CPI has gone up by 136%. (2002 was 100%, 2000 was actually 95.4%) So, take your monthly benefit, and multiply by 1.36 - approximately. Thus, if you're receiving $2000 a...

Glad I could help. W Eng Tech is not IT related - at one point I was actually trained as a Dell Certified computer tech by the RCN, as well as getting some of my MCSE courses and Novel netware admin and such - but when I left that posting and went back to a ship, I was not permitted to use...