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GoinAllTheWay · 01-25-2018, 03:25 PM

That was one of the funniest articles I've read in a while.

TL;DR, Alberta would win by a landslide.

This part, when comparing air capabilities killed me. In reference to Sask being home of the snowbirds:

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While the squadron’s breathtaking aerobatic displays could boost the morale of an embattled Saskatchewan, a formation of unarmed CT-144 Tutors would be very little help in defence.

btimbit · 01-25-2018, 04:23 PM

lol I read that the other day. Good little chuckle. Still though, when did the National Post become Huffington Post North?

SebC · 01-25-2018, 05:24 PM

Yeah, yeah. Can we crush BC?

btimbit · 01-25-2018, 05:26 PM

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Originally Posted by SebC

Yeah, yeah. Can we crush BC?

I'll go out on a limb and say their Navy has ours beat

CaptainCrunch · 01-29-2018, 12:17 PM

The Auditor General is reviewing the Fighter Jet replacement documents.

http://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn...rt-in-the-fall

CaptainCrunch · 01-29-2018, 12:19 PM

Of course

http://nationalpost.com/news/canadas...owly-phased-in

Nufy · 01-29-2018, 04:31 PM

Alberta in a landslide...once we round up all the secret agents...

Easily identifiable though...They are the ones with Rider Bumper stickers.

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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

With all the hurly burly between Saskatchewan and Alberta lately, who would win a actual war between the provinces?

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/...#comments-area

Zulu29 · 01-29-2018, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Of course

http://nationalpost.com/news/canadas...owly-phased-in

Barf. How can replacing our jets take so bloody long???

undercoverbrother · 01-29-2018, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by btimbit

I'll go out on a limb and say their Navy has ours beat

Great then let's attack by land.

CaptainCrunch · 01-29-2018, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Zulu29

Barf. How can replacing our jets take so bloody long???

Chances are they're going to push the decision off until after the next election. Then they'll decide on the plane, and here's my bet.

Lets say they do pick the F-35, I'll be shocked by ok. We want 88 F-35's.

And Lockheed will snicker and say, if you would have ordered these things years ago, you would have been at the front of the line, but now everyone else has ordered theirs, you're at the end.

I would be shocked if this time line isn't a might ambitious.

Or lets say that they decide on the Gripen E/F which is I believe their first test flight was last year.

So nowhere near looking at production.

CaptainCrunch · 01-31-2018, 09:25 AM

Switching gears, it looks like Veterans of Afghanistan are forming a class action lawsuit against the government concerning pensions

https://twitter.com/user/status//958706394739462145

https://twitter.com/user/status/958717395362775040

https://twitter.com/user/status/958718029118033921

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Campbell says veterans were shocked when the latest judge said there is no social contract to look after injured soldiers - the idea soldiers take on unlimited liability to life and limb and in exchange the govt agrees to care for them #veterans #cdnpoli

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Mercedes Stephenson‏Verified account @CTVMercedes 1h1 hour ago

These veterans making it very clear they feel @SeamusORegan has done nothing to reach out to them. Bedard says he talked to him once after approaching him. No contact initiated by the minister #cdnpoli #veterans

Is it me of have the liberals put their two most worthless cabinet ministers in veteran affairs, First Hehr and now Seamus O'Regan.

undercoverbrother · 01-31-2018, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

Switching gears, it looks like Veterans of Afghanistan are forming a class action lawsuit against the government concerning pensions

https://twitter.com/user/status//958706394739462145

https://twitter.com/user/status/958717395362775040

https://twitter.com/user/status/958718029118033921

Is it me of have the liberals put their two most worthless cabinet ministers in veteran affairs, First Hehr and now Seamus O'Regan.

I really can't think of a time when the military or veterans were treated well, by either party in power.

It is reflective of Canadian's opinion overall of our military. The pubic just doesn't give a ####.

Never has never will.

Also the Ross Rifle is awesome, trust me........

CaptainCrunch · 01-31-2018, 02:37 PM

Colin Kenny is taking early retirement from the Senate.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/libe...date-1.3783820

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The elder Trudeau appointed Kenny to the Senate in the spring of 1984 after he spent a decade as a special adviser and assistant principal secretary in the Prime Minister's Office.

The ensuring 34 years saw Kenny focus on military and security issues, becoming an outspoken critic of cuts to defence spending.

But his tenure was marked by testy exchanges when he headed the Senate's defence committee, the most memorable of which live online in videos capturing political bickering between Kenny and fellow senators.

More recently, questions were raised about his conduct in relation to the workers in his office. In 2014, a Senate-appointed investigator cleared Kenny on allegations of sexually and verbally harassing his office staff.

Two years ago, Kenny repaid more than $30,000 in expenses that were deemed unjustified after they were flagged in an auditor general's report on Senate spending.

Baron von Kriterium · 02-01-2018, 02:47 PM

F-35 revealed to be a horror movie.

https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/01/f...yamalan-movie/

In perhaps the most daring plot twist of his career, film director M. Night Shyamalan has revealed that the entire trillion dollar F-35 program is a horror movie he has been working on for the past decade, sources confirmed today.

“I really wanted to explore the depths of the military-industrial complex and the human psyche in an age of uncertainty,” said Shyamalan. “That, and I was pretty damn high when I wrote it.”

CaptainCrunch · 02-01-2018, 02:53 PM

So much good in that site

https://www.duffelblog.com/2015/11/a...per-marriages/

Army To Lower Divorce Rates By Training Soldiers Not To Marry Strippers

https://www.duffelblog.com/2013/11/o...ommander-hate/

Outgoing Company Commander: ‘I Hate You All

Baron von Kriterium · 02-01-2018, 02:59 PM

There were two dudes in my platoon here in Calgary in the early 90s that dated strippers that worked at that joint (can't remember the name) on 37th/Bow Trail. Lots of drama with those two. They both drove Firebirds they couldn't afford, too.

CaptainCrunch · 02-01-2018, 03:00 PM

https://www.duffelblog.com/2018/01/l...e-combat-ship/

I forgot how great this site is.

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WASHINGTON — Following years of controversy surrounding the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program, experts have deemed that the ship is, literally, a Figurative Combat Ship.

“It’s the best ‘combat ship’ fielded by any country in history,” said Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer, indicating air quotes around the words ‘combat ship.’ “Metaphorically speaking, of course.”