First, formation flying is difficult under most circumstances, let alone with giant fuel tankers in a combat zone. White knuckle stuff if you watch enough air-to-air refuelling videos. Any tanker-jet drivers out there to comment?
Second, one of the aircraft had a second crew aboard in training, which is unsettling given the above, and that there are numerous non-combat theatres in which trainees could be accomodated rather than in a combat zone.
Right up into the 1980s, a new, basic-level North American truck usually had 2 doors, a straight six engine with a single barrel carburetor, and a manual transmission with a three-on-the-tree stick shift or maybe four-on-the-floor (an inconvenience for dating couples). Power steering and brakes? Not standard until the 1970s. Radio? Maybe an AM prior to the 1980s. If you wanted a bigger engine, an automatic trans, 4x4, tinted glass, air conditioning, cruise control, power door locks and windows etc. the price went up and up. My point is that you could still buy a ''buckboard'', like my old 1971 GMC of long ago. It was affordable back then and was good enough for what I needed.
The Japanese manufacturers stepped in to the small truck niche, with the most basic models having minimal standard equipment, and by the 1970s were having great success. Now, those ''small buckboard'' class of trucks is long gone.
Nowadays, unless you can buy a new fleet model truck in white with minimal equipment, you're faced with a long list of standard items that all combine to raise the price, regardless of whether you do not desire all that stuff.
> Assuming those Americans want to live in a highly liberal country.
Also citizenship and residence are not the same. As for that political view, the article deals directly with motivations for why Canadian citizenship via this new process has become popular.
Not all of British Columbia can make the change. BC's northeast and much of the Columbia-Kootenays are presently on Mountain time, which means that the Province of Alberta holds the choice of when/whether their own and those BC areas go to a permanent time. Then AB would have to sync with Saskatchewan along their borders, but SK is already on a permanent time zone system. Decisions, decisions.
Maybe a buying trip north of the border might suit some U.S. folks alarmed by the TPMS blabbermouth data. Although Canadian-spec new vehicles usually have TPMS monitoring, it is not mandated, so some vehicles will display a dashboard icon or menu warning if no TPMS signal is seen, while others will just ignore the issue. Given that many Canadian consumers have dedicated sets of winter and summer tires/wheels, this is sensible to not require TPMS systems. Caveat emptor: I have no idea whether recertifying a new Canadian vehicle for the U.S. (i.e. changing kph speedo to mph, etc) involves flashing such different software.
I live in the Midwest and have a car with TPMS and winter and all season tires and it's a $10 thing to tell the car to pair with tires when I swap them. Most mechanics have these too as they service wheels so it's not an issue really. Yeah it messes with the tracking but my car also has wifi I can't turn off without ripping out OnStar.
In the context of the OP the TPMS sensors are culprits, and on U.S. cars the software requires that TPMS modules be present. I've read about Ford owners in the U.S. using FORSCAN to disable the TPMS software components and then removing the TPMS modules from the tires. No idea if this is still possible of if similar solutions are workable for other manufacturers. Having said that, I mentioned Canadian-spec vehicles that don't have TPMS enabled in the first place.
A lot of new cars use tire rotation to detect a low tire now. So no need for TPMS sensors unless you need precise pressure data for some reason. Its much cheaper to do it this way so I suspect most TPMS sensors will be going away soon anyways.
Second, one of the aircraft had a second crew aboard in training, which is unsettling given the above, and that there are numerous non-combat theatres in which trainees could be accomodated rather than in a combat zone.