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08-17-2011, 02:36 PM
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God save the Queen!
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08-17-2011, 02:46 PM
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Seems like a very cool development. My understanding was that the amalgamation into Canadian Forces didn't even deliver any real cost savings in terms of streamlining logistics and admin, which was the (if I'm not mistaken) logic for kicking esprit de corps in the crotch when the decision was made way back when.
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08-17-2011, 03:15 PM
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Good for our northern cousins! An army deserves to be called such.
Why doesn't the Canadian Army get a "Royal" moniker? Are the Canadians suffering from the betrayal by the British Army all those years ago? Talk about sins of the father!
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08-17-2011, 05:24 PM
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Possibly because unlike the "rebel scum" most of those who were a part of the British Empire respect our history.
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08-17-2011, 06:46 PM
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 So instead of using the money to get new equipment and improve or pay out the pension plans for retired vets, millions of dollars will now be spent repainting and changing all the official paperwork from HMCS to RCN etc.
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08-18-2011, 01:46 AM
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Commonwealth armies don't get "Royal" tacked onto the overall organization's name, rather it is assigned to individual regiments or corps that warrant it for one reason or another. For the Royal Navy I think this is because that organization traditionally belonged to the crown, rather than being raised by nobles or officers who had a warrant to recruit a regiment. Same for some army specialist/technical fields and (much later) the air forces.
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08-18-2011, 01:53 AM
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I think that I read somewhere that some units had earn the term 'Royal' for heroism ad loyality on the battlefield. Like the Aussies and New Zealanders having earning the Royal title for their armed forces after WW1 & WW2 and the losses they suffered fighting the Japanese and Germans.
in my 2300ad campaign the British Army had earned the title Royal British Army due to the pacification/reunification campaigns that restored His Majesties Government of King Harry.
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08-18-2011, 01:51 AM
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Quote:
The longer I serve the more I think they should do some extensive testing and just shoot the dumbest general or admiral in the force in the face once a year to encourage the rest to try as hard ad they can to be smarter than a developmentally disabled redneck banjo player.
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08-18-2011, 02:10 PM
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Quote:
"It is good to kill, from time to time, an admiral to encourage the others"-Voltaire
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