Recent content by rnkelly

Wrong thread but noticed you snuck in E7 with the word “soon”. To me, it’s the single most interesting part of the DPU but I can’t get over the $307M allocated. Curious how it’ll unfold. Good points by all, carry on.

I remember first hearing about this ‘update’ and thinking it made sense just to tweak/refresh and publish in short order. It’s several years later now and it’s still being called an update which seems to under appreciate the situation wrt world events and CAF challenges. Quite concerning and my...

You went for the TV eh, good luck with your endeavors! Hope you get the withheld amounts back easily too.

That article is a quote gold mine.

That was a very loud message indeed. It will be interesting to see what Monsieur Macron considers to be the appropriate accompanying action.

Ex-foreign minister and MND Perrin Beatty penned an open letter to the PM. (Current CEO of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce). https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canada-unserious-player-on-international-stage/wcm/fa2f5064-c0c9-4165-997e-eb94c0f568be/amp/

Interesting point you raise, I think you might have something there. I wonder if it has the desired effect or just pisses off the EXs of the world. For example (but not limited to); I could see some GAC DGs and ADMs being mightily insulted by someone in uniform speaking up. Hope I’m wrong though.

Agreed, I don’t think they were reckless and went public without first advising/consulting higher. I just think they may not have been as receptive to feedback as their masters would have preferred/expected. Specifically, describing the Canadian public as “overly confident” and “naive” seems...

In a year-end interview Commander CJOC was quoted as saying Canadians are “overly comfortable”. Personally I find the comment to be very appropriate. However, I also wonder (similar to the recent CRCN video) if these comments were supported by DM, MND, PMO etc...

You can’t press the record button though…

In places where it makes sense, like Mali, we (Griffons) were able to take off much earlier on calls than the Chinook to minimize this issue. Ya, our mx is painful, literally.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume @KevinB doesn’t appreciate the lack of standoff precision strike capability. Especially in the context of this theatre.

I see more differences than similarities, I admit I’m biased. The seemingly broad anti-Israel sentiment in Ireland however saddens me greatly. It conflates two issues.

Bald Fonzie is gold.

You have to admit that the media release says a lot though.