Srbin

There are a number of ways to enter the Canadian Armed Forces. If you enlist as a ‘private’ you must pass through ‘basic training’ which is approx 3 mths (13 wkeeks?) and you will eventually be allocated to one of the three (air/land/sea) enviornments determined by staffing requirements, preference and/or skills and aptitude.
Officer cadets are admitted to the RMC where they complete a university level academic program and military basics. Pilots are sometimes recruted directly upon completion of a community college aviation program. Some universities are now offering a general aviation degree complete with private pilot licence. Obviously military basic training is part of the deal.

There may be other options via reserve and air cadet programs, but regardless of the path followed you will undergo aptitude screening, endure basic officer training and eventually be sent to 15 Wing at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan in either phase I or II flight training. Best training and best flying weather you could wish for and all the buffalo steak and prairie dog stew you can eat.

Regards

Sauron

Merlin

If you are using Windows just disable “active scripting” in the internet settings before you use Internet Explorer and set it back on after you finish. Simple. No pop ups.

There are a few sites such as this forum which will not open but you will soon adjust to the excetions. Takes a few seconds but you should be using the internet settings contols to clean up your system after each internet session anyway.

Regards

Sauron

It appears London is also vulnerable to power interuptions as well.

Sauron

If there are significant profits to be made in the energy business, why are government run utilities in the red? Is it simply because they feel no obligation to run things effectively because they have endless supplies of money? It’s not as if the customer has alternatives.

Sauron

Indeed a sad day. Unfortunately such events appear to be part of the price of admission into space.

Sauron

Dave

I suppose even responding to to your claim about big US companies like Mac Donalds supporting the IRA will only encourage more such rubbish. Now, if it was so well documented, were is it? My guess is that it’s a simple-minded claim with nothing to back it up.

Same goes for the Coke/Israel story. Good fodder for the chattering classes and the pub crawlers on a Saturday night. Always something to divert attention away from the real cause of the problems.

I would imagine any claim that Marlboro supported the KKK is just so much smoke.

Skythe

“Spineless” is the word alright. Sad that the only true democracy in the middle east and the only one where Arabs get to vote in an open election, is the one that is subject of such harrasment while those regimes who routinely send their children to blow up other children, gets the moral backing of many western nations and the UN.

US Agent

Perhaps what Garry ment to say, was that it was the commies were really the ones who believed that it was the rest of us didn’t have the right to breathe. Wasn’t it Khrushchev who took his shoe of at the UN and beat on the podium while saying “we will bury you”? Such class! No wonder his son emigrated to the US and became a citizen.

Sauron

Why was he not prosecuted? Was it because he only murdered Africans and East Indians?

I understand he died in Saudi Arabia. What motive would it have to protect him?

Sauron

Garry

Your PM has no idea what Gore would have done about Iraq anymore than you or I do. Seems to me his former boss had no problem conducting a war not sanctioned by the UN in Europe a few years ago. Of course you didn’t like that either because it was just another example of the west finally having to clean up after a “Stalinist’ style **** up.

The people of Iraq do need assistance but obviously due to 30 years of NAZI style rule and wasted resources spent on second rate Russian weapons, attacks on it’s neighbours and empty palaces,etc, etc.

As for the oil, well it’s in better hands now. At least there is some chance that Iraq will actually benefit from it. At the very least the US/UK/OZ has seen that Saddam Insane and Co and the UN have both been kicked out of the trough and the possiblity of France, Germany, Russia,and the like being able to do a back-door oil and weapons deals with SH has been eliminated. Now they will also have to do the deals in the open. The claim that it’s US oil interests that drives everything is obviously lame and I am surprised that someone with your historical knowledge would even mention it at all much less repeat it time and again.

Your view that the KGB was just playing by the rules clearly understood by all (apparently) is pretty funny. I bet they could teach those poor dunb Americans a thing or two about conducting nighttime raids and restoring order in Iraq. 😉

Sauron