Daydream Notes

in addition to being a regular fire.     https://news.usni.org/2021/10/19/long-chain-of-failures-left-sailors-unprepared-to-fight-uss-bonhomme-richard-investigation-finds So on July 12th, 2020, the USS Bonhomme Richard was set on fire by a disgruntled 20 year old sailor who didn't get into the Navy SEALs on the first try. The Bonhomme Richard , an amphibious assault ship had been in drydock for two years for a 800 million dollar refit, which it was almost done. The fire raged out of control and gutted the ship, to the point aluminum parts of the ship were photographed melting. Now the final report on the fire has come out, and the amount of failures are....well, let me summarize: ---------------------------------- Investigators found inconsistent statements from crew members about the actions to investigate the reports of smoke and fire alarms and why there was a delayed reporting of the fire over the ship’s intercom system – the 1MC. “Numerous sources agree to having he...

  Current head of CF lied about knowing about another senior officer's sexcrime In other words, it is Monday. But when you dig into the details a bit: Despite allegedly knowing of the allegation, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre confirmed Trevor Cadieu as the new army commander following the approval of Cadieu’s promotion to lieutenant general on Aug. 8. In a statement to this newspaper, the Department of National Defence said Eyre only found out about the allegations against Cadieu when he was informed by military police on Sept. 5. But the alleged victim, as well as an email from Cadieu himself, tell a different story. In an email sent to his alleged victim on July 11, Cadieu writes that Eyre had been informed by other officers about the allegations. “The CDS can’t ignore what he’s been told,” Cadieu wrote to the woman, a former Canadian Forces member. “Naturally, as painful as it is to write this, the CDS needs to makes (sic) decisions about my ...

Since January 2021, the Canadian Forces (CF) has been lost in a scandal supercell, which the leadership didn't see coming, but everybody else in the CF and outside of it did. The other thing I can observe: so the Defense Minister is Harjit Sajjan. He was a police detective in Vancouver, and also rose to the rank of Lt. Col. in the Canadian Army. On the one hand, you can see that somebody with lots of experience in the military is the sort of person you want in the role, IE because they should know their stuff. There's a distinct drawback, now obvious: if you come up in these circles, you might have the same blind spots. Things start with the recently retired General Vance. Remember when the smack talk was all about "why did you take so long to say 'actually, maybe CF personnel shouldn't belong to right wing terror groups'?" Gen. Vance investigated for sexual impropriety Naturally:   quote: Vance was also the driving force behind Operation Ho...

One lesson Canada took from the Second World War was that their previous military procurement strategy didn't work. Up until that point, Canada had always relied on buying hardware, like aircraft and ships, from the UK and America. What Canada discovered after following the UK into war in 1939 was that when a major war happens, both those nations are suddenly too busy with their own needs to sell to Canada. This proved a particular issue when defending Canada; for several years, German U-boats could operate in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and off Canada's coast while resources to hunt them were so lacking that America and the UK had to assume aerial anti-submarine patrols until Canada could get its collective shit together.  So at the end of the Second World War, Canada followed a strategy of building some defense industry, and some purchasing from its allies, depending on what native industrial strengths it could utilize. One of these places was surface ships for the Royal Canadia...