Recent content by Oldgateboatdriver

My point about the choke points was only that this thread deals with continental missiles defence. With your plan using bubles of defense at the sites of important targets, I was trying to figure out why we would have anything sit at those choke points for that purpose only of missile defense...

Kirkhill, what can possibly be the point for air defense of your CSC "patrols" of choke points such as Cabot Strait, Strait of Belle-Isle, Juan de Fuca Strait, and both ends of the North West Passage? Do you actually expect our potential ennemies will somehow try and sneak a cruise missiles...

Except when they reject the will of the people as expressed by Parliament on the basis of very fuzzy concepts like "bringning the administration of justice into disrepute" or "cruel and unusual punishment" for which they somehow set themselves up as sole judge in place of the people or without...

Fishbone: A black diamond is (suposedly) the hardest slope to ski - the ones for advanced skiers. In Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia, we consider an Ontario black diamond to be the kiddie slope fro beginners. ;)

Oh! All sorts of things, from mediterranean moorings in harbours where you can only put your stern to the wharf, to actual mooring (anchoring with two anchors spread so you middle the two) in a narrow bay or harbour, to using them to manoeuver off a wharf or jetty in bad wind condition, to...

Wait aminute. Are we actually going back to two anchors ?

Well, I certainly have an opinion on this, as do most of us here, and we are free to express that opinion. But, when the decision has no application whatsoever for Canadians, there are some people who are NOT entitled to express their opinion. First among these is our Prime Minister. His job is...

Wait until you fly off an AOPS in the Arctic, where weather forecast's validity is calculated in minutes. ;)

It's not like ships are bereft of meteorological ressources when no Met Tech is embarked. First of all, it's important to recall that the Met Techs were embarked, originally, on ships that carried aircrafts - the DDH's - only, hence their being from the RCAF. For instance, the IRE's and...

Or perhaps you're looking at an unlucky engineering Commander who had more than his/her fair share of sea tours. :)

No we didn't. We led the world with the idea. HMCS BRAS D'OR was decommissioned two years before they even started to build the Pegasus class in the US. They were also not developped for the same purpose. The american PGM were meant to go after Soviet patrol vessels. The Bras D'or class was...

No idea what type of animal that is but it is definitely not a ship's crest. Besides, we don't wear ship's crest with the DEU, and admirals don't have a ship that they wear the crest of anyway as they are not considered ship's company, even when embarked.

Let's be clear here: First, we are not talking about commercial tankers deploying with the Navy on regular ops, but being available for these types of refueling ops in cases of actual war or near war increased tempo ops, as was done for the Falkland war. Second, we are not talking about...

Ah! But does she read emails when she is only c.c'd? I usually throw mine in the waste basket :unsure:

First of all, congratulation! and Ubique! But call me finicky: The highet signatory on thta document is a BGen. Shouldn't there be some formal document signed by HM the Queen that grants the honour somewhere?