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Originally posted by I-Hate-Hulse@Oct 5 2004, 04:28 PM
Some more fodder for those who say the Canadian Armed Forces are chronically underfunded...
"A rescue effort is underway off of the west coast of Ireland after a Canadian military submarine with 56 people on board issued a distress call Tuesday.
Military officials in Halifax said a fire broke out on HMCS Chicoutimi about 425 kilometres west of Ireland, but has since been extinguished."
Lemon Laws Anyone?
HMCS Chicoutimi was officially turned over to the Canadian Navy on Oct 1 from the Royal Navy. 5 days later it looks like fire has broken out and we now need a tug back to port. Unbelievable. I really hope we're not paying a dime for these yet.... I was a proponent of this deal, but can't believe the inept systems integration and modernization work that have gone into these boats.
Maybe the Brits have a 30 day money back policy, like Saturn or something....
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I think we traded for them in exchange for rent for British troops using Suffield and Wainwright and what not and so forth.
So, you could say we sacrificed cash we might have had otherwise.
The Mulroney government wanted to buy Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarines from America so we could patrol underneath the Arctic ice.
Cowperson