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[Tony]

About 60 per cent of people who express interest in joining the forces either fail to book their aptitude test or don't show up to write it, Brodie said

 

Statistics twist, If you turned that around 40 percent of people who express interest ( whatever that means) in joining the forces book their aptitude test and show up to write it.

[LJ]

That's what we need, dumb, ill people with weaponry.

[spanky123]

^ Well if you trust the Government to have your best interests at heart before they send you overseas to 'fight terror' then you are dumb.

[AllseeingEye]

I have an easy solution to the CAF hiring dilemma: so you want to come into this country as a PR with the eventual goal of becoming a citizen? Fine. However you first MUST serve this country in uniform for two years in whatever branch of the service you are needed, the only exceptions being medical or physical/mental disability. Seems a small price to pay for the privilege of living here.

 

Of course "x" % would leave after the two years but I suspect enough would re-up to significantly reduce the critical manpower shortage currently and perpetually confronting the Forces. Of course I realize this is a pie in the sky suggestion as "naturally" no good staunch Liberal party member or supporter would ever consider such a thing: serving the country? In uniform??? Oh the horror, the horror.....!

[Victoria Watcher]

A lot of immigrants don’t really care much for the country they are moving to. It’s just better than the one they left.

Not sure they are the best candidates to serve.

[Matt R.]

You know the CO would be paranoid they’re all making fun of him in their mother tongue that he can’t understand.

[Victoria Watcher]

Construction call goes out for $53M combat-drone base at CFB Comox

 

The CFB Comox facility will be part of Canada’s $2.49 billion military drone program, featuring fighter-jet-size drones.

 

https://www.timescol...b-comox-8532503

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 March 2024 - 05:25 AM.

[Mike K.]

Awkward. Since CFB Comox is a designated ‘no drone zone.’

[AllseeingEye]

Technically this would come under Air Force/RCAF News but I guess we don't have a thread for that .

 

In response my reaction is....."FINALLY". And "LONG overdue".

[Sparky]

I wonder if I could get a job there? I have and fly a drone. It’s a little smaller than the one above.

[Mike K.]

Apparently, women make the best drone pilots: https://www.dailytel...2b03-1711993216

[Nparker]

It's because they are not afraid to ask for directions.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

 

 

New-era naval ship arrives at CFB Esquimalt on Monday

 

HMCS Max Bernays left Halifax on March 11, made its way through the Panama Canal and is now heading north from San Francisco for arrival at CFB Esquimalt on Monday about 10:30 a.m.

 

https://www.timescol...-monday-8598032

 

 

 

Named after a hero of the Second World War, the Max Bernays is an Arctic and offshore patrol vessel designed to assert Canadian sovereignty in the Arctic’s Northwest Passage and on the West Coast, and to support international operations.

 

Four of the new Harry DeWolf-class vessels were built at Irving Shipyards in Halifax and are operational while another two are under construction.

 

CFB Esquimalt will be home port for two of the vessels — the Max Bernays and the Robert Hampton Gray, currently being built in Halifax, said Sub-Lt. Simon Gonsalves.

 

He said the DeWolf-class ships differ from the navy’s frigates in look and capabilities. They are each 103 metres long with a top speed of 31 km/h (17 knots), a range of 6,800 nautical miles and a crew of up to 85. The class has ice-breaking plating and special design features for operation in drastically different environments — from Arctic to tropical waters — and the ability to provide rapid mobility to navy and other Canadian Armed Forces personnel.

 

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Chief Petty Officer Max Bernays, a Vancouver native, served as the coxswain on HMCS Assin iboine during the Battle of the Atlantic.

 

On Aug. 6, 1942, during intense surface gun action against German submarine U-210, the Assiniboine manoeuvred in and out of fog attempting to ram and sink the enemy submarine. Both vessels were firing high-explosive shells at close range, resulting in a fire that engulfed the bridge and wheelhouse of Assiniboine. Surrounded by smoke and flames while steering the ship, Bernays ordered two junior sailors to get clear, leaving him alone at the helm and trapped by the blaze.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 14 April 2024 - 04:06 AM.