Actual Radio Conversation Of A British Naval Ship And The Irish

[CanadianCowboysFan]

...squat in this situation just like draft order means squat on your ability to play football, be coachable, learn plays and just using your head in game.

It never how much you do, its what you do when it counts. Anyone who has a lick of understanding of military history knows what Canada has done in world wide conflict in the modern age.

give up trying to argue with them, you won't win as they will always resort to the "we can blow you up in a second" argument.

 

[ethiostar]

It's convenient for you to brandish your posting sword on a singular post, but not realistic to consider the post content in regards to the OP.

Do what now?

 

[Rackat]

This is a UMADBRO situation.

I ain't even mad bro



:laugh2:

 

[SaltwaterServr]

..."Since 1988, only nine charges of desertion have been laid against Canadian Forces members. If just desertion charges are considered, Canada appears to be fairing quite well compared to other militaries.

According to the U.S. army, about nine in every 1,000 soldiers deserted in fiscal year 2007 (which ended Sept. 30), compared to nearly seven per 1,000 a year earlier. Overall, 4,698 soldiers deserted, compared to 3,301 the previous year, of a force of just over one million.

As for the British army, another one of our allies in Afghanistan, the Telegraph newspaper reported in late 2007 that almost 1,000 soldiers were absent without leave in a total force of 196,000. The paper also reported that since the fighting in Iraq began in 2003 there have been more than 11,000 cases of absence without leave."


I typed this from a Maclean's article Wednesday July 30, 2008. I have the mags, but no link.

Next I'm not sure we are on the same page or where anyone could ever construe that I made light on any intent of any invasion.

The only person to make mention of such a thought was 30 yard slant in his post.

We're on the same side, but your information is wholly incorrect. Piss poor reporting by Macleans. The US military strength, not including active duty reservists, has never dipped below 1.3 million personnel since WW2. It actually might not have been below 1.35 million since before the mobilization for WW2. That's from memory, but I imagine if you hunt online you could find corroborative support.

 

[MonsterD]

Actually, the OP had absolutely nothing to do with Canada. Someone else said something about Canada and you started going on about desertion rates which you somehow seem to think makes the Canadian military superior.

It is from this which has been circulating the net for long time:

And it is not even funny because of how ridiculously flawed and unrealistic it is, a ship that can't use equipment or technology to tell there is land or a lighthouse. The non identifying anything, radio transpondence even though it is a fleet of ships, or knowledge between states that an exercise was going on. The whole country angle is a moot point because of how fake the premise is.

 

[arglebargle]

We're on the same side, but your information is wholly incorrect. Piss poor reporting by Macleans. The US military strength, not including active duty reservists, has never dipped below 1.3 million personnel since WW2. It actually might not have been below 1.35 million since before the mobilization for WW2. That's from memory, but I imagine if you hunt online you could find corroborative support.

Real interesting to me that the US was mobilizing from a one hundred thousand to a million man army in 1940. They knew a serious storm was brewing.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

If anyone's interested, a pretty nice pictorial series on the French Navy.

http://www.air-defense.net/forum/index.php?topic=12222.0

FWIW, the US Navy has on occasion leased submarines from friendly nations with full crews to conduct long term readiness training exercises for our own submarine and surface fleet to hunt. Off hand I know we've leased Swedish, German, French, and UK submarines for that purpose.