Army Reserve Restructuring

[BrianWL]

70 year old reservist hauling tanks.

Grandfather of 15 returns to reserve duty to haul tanks for IDF: ‘For me, it’s like earning a million dollars’

Despite completing his reserve service decades ago, Hertzel Rahamim, 70, a heavy-equipment driver from Petah Tikva, has volunteered since October 7 to transport tanks and armored vehicles to the front lines out of love for his country

www.ynetnews.com

Pretty sure if the CAF wanted help from veterans who are now past service age - they would find it.

 

[Kirkhill]

Pretty sure if the CAF wanted help from veterans who are now past service age - they would find it.

Might contribute to that 300,000 the CDS says she is looking for.

 

[MilEME09]

Might contribute to that 300,000 the CDS says she is looking for.

I think it will be more like Calian being used and expanded to have more vets to do things for the CAF, they just tried to scout me to be a civilian instructor at the weapons school.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I think it will be more like Calian being used and expanded to have more vets to do things for the CAF, they just tried to scout me to be a civilian instructor at the weapons school.

 

[MilEME09]

Oh I refused that offer pretty hard, unless I can afford those 1.5 million dollar homes outside base, I aint biting

 

[Rifleman62]

Might contribute to that 300,000 the CDS says she is looking for.

And if you a VAC recipient, you will be cut off in a nanosecond. Then try to reapply later.

 

[Kirkhill]

The people gathered at the conference, hosted by the London-based think tank the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), were not warmongers; they were people in the know. Current and former members of the armed forces, government and NATO officials, researchers and defense industry professionals whose thinking is based on the widely accepted intelligence assessment that Russia is preparing for the possibility of a direct conflict with Europe.

The only way to prevent that from happening, they say, is to make sure that if a war were to break out, Europe would win.

More investment into chronically underfunded European defense is key, but security experts are increasingly warning that a big shift in mindset is needed across the board too. It is time, they say, for European governments to get their citizens on board and make it clear that the time when Europe was able to ignore the threat of war is over.

“I think that there is an indication that societies are willing to have this conversation, but I think that we are also seeing governments that are still not quite confident enough to have that conversation with their publics,” said Sam Greene, a professor of Russian politics at King’s College London and an expert in democratic resilience.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/11/europe/mark-rutte-nato-chief-russia-europe-intl
NATO chief warns European allies they could be Russia’s next target
There is a growing consensus among experts that Russia is already waging a hybrid war on the West by conducting sabotage operations and injecting chaos and disinformation into domestic political discussions. They point to the overwhelming evidence, including repeated incursions into NATO airspace by Russian planes and drones and GPS jamming in the Baltics, to disinformation campaigns, and sabotage attacks against critical infrastructure in multiple countries that have been traced back to Russian secret services. Russia has consistently denied involvement.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/25/europe/russia-europe-analysis-intl-cmd

 

[Brad Sallows]

It is time, they say, for European governments to get their citizens on board and make it clear that the time when Europe was able to ignore the threat of war is over.

Sure. Wait and see how many of the family members of the people in "European governments" line up to make sacrifices.

I encourage the yobs and chavs to sit this one out for a while and let the blue-hairs and recent immigrants and sons and daughters of the elevated classes prove their worth first. The people who are ascendant in contemporary culture should be most prepared to fight for it. If they don't show up, no-one else should feel obligated.

 

[Kirkhill]

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Prince Albert Training Area reopened

Christmas Came Early

The Prince Albert Training Area has officially been re-opened for use. It has been a long process involving all levels of command to get the permissions and assessments completed.

Without the diligent work and expertise from the staff at 3 Division and the Range Training Area Management (RTAM) Office and the final authorities completed by the17 Wing Commander 38 CBG Commanders. This was very much a team effort in getting this re-opened.

This area is 10 minutes from Prince Albert Armoury, making it an ideal location for small unit tactics, completing IBTS requirements and as a place for courses. The training area allows a location to bivouac units launching north on possible future LENTUS Operations in Northern Saskatchewan.

The CO and RSM did a symbolic ribbon cutting at the South Gate on December 21. The training area already has exercises planned in the next month, Winter Indoctrination, snowmobile and survival training with the Northern Rangers.

 

[MilEME09]

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Prince Albert Training Area reopened

Christmas Came Early

The Prince Albert Training Area has officially been re-opened for use. It has been a long process involving all levels of command to get the permissions and assessments completed.

Without the diligent work and expertise from the staff at 3 Division and the Range Training Area Management (RTAM) Office and the final authorities completed by the17 Wing Commander 38 CBG Commanders. This was very much a team effort in getting this re-opened.

This area is 10 minutes from Prince Albert Armoury, making it an ideal location for small unit tactics, completing IBTS requirements and as a place for courses. The training area allows a location to bivouac units launching north on possible future LENTUS Operations in Northern Saskatchewan.

The CO and RSM did a symbolic ribbon cutting at the South Gate on December 21. The training area already has exercises planned in the next month, Winter Indoctrination, snowmobile and survival training with the Northern Rangers.

Greatly needed for smaller reserve units to reduce travel time for training

 

[Eaglelord17]

Sure. Wait and see how many of the family members of the people in "European governments" line up to make sacrifices.

I encourage the yobs and chavs to sit this one out for a while and let the blue-hairs and recent immigrants and sons and daughters of the elevated classes prove their worth first. The people who are ascendant in contemporary culture should be most prepared to fight for it. If they don't show up, no-one else should feel obligated.

The sons and daughters of the elevated classes have given more than any other group in the UK, it is one of the things I respect them most for. Approximately 20-25% of the nobility was killed in WWI and WWII for the Brits, and it is what greatly weakened their power in the country.

Our country should follow their lead where most our political leaders and upper classes have nothing to do with the military and have no skin in the game. It is easy to send people to their deaths when you yourself won’t be facing any direct consequences.

 

[Brad Sallows]

The sons and daughters of the elevated classes have given more than any other group in the UK

Good for them. And the sons and daughters of the EU elite today?

Our country should follow their lead where most our political leaders and upper classes have nothing to do with the military and have no skin in the game. It is easy to send people to their deaths when you yourself won’t be facing any direct consequences.

Which is my point, and what people 80 or 110 years ago doesn't guarantee a repeat.

And they'll also have to overcome their tendency to look down their noses at the cannon fodder classes.

 

[FJAG]

Good for them. And the sons and daughters of the EU elite today?

Most of the European countries had a draft until late last century/early this one so the chances of being called up were around equal for everyone. Canada, on the other hand, has a history going back to the Vietnam anti-war movement of the "elite" rejecting any form of military association. Europeans still have the draft on their books albeit it has been inactive. They can turn the taps on again. We can't.

Which is my point, and what people 80 or 110 years ago doesn't guarantee a repeat.

And they'll also have to overcome their tendency to look down their noses at the cannon fodder classes.

There's a lot of "thanks for your service" going around that even two and a half decades ago would have been unimaginable. Think of the Highway of Heroes scenes we had every time we brought a fatality home from Afghanistan. That's a big recovery from the Airborne debacle of the 90s.

There will always be resisters to military service. Hell, one doesn't have to go back to Ole Bone Spurs, the number of young Ukrainians fleeing serving their country number in the hundreds of thousands. That, however, doesn't make standing next to and supporting those who stayed to fight worth while. If nothing else it tells those who might want to look at us next that we won't go quietly.

Hate to say it but that "your leaders aren't sending their kids to slaughter" rhetoric matches that of numerous old enemy propaganda campaigns designed to weaken unity and resistance. It's been a long time since the "flower of chivalry" fought and died in the mud of Agincourt and the Somme. That doesn't mean one shouldn't fight when needed.

Oh and just as an aside - if the "yobs and chavs" weren't being ignorant to the new immigrants, maybe more of them would enlist in the army. I have no problem with the yobs and chavs sitting it out.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Hate to say it but that "your leaders aren't sending their kids to slaughter" rhetoric matches that of numerous old enemy propaganda campaigns designed to weaken unity and resistance. It's been a long time since the "flower of chivalry" fought and died in the mud of Agincourt and the Somme. That doesn't mean one shouldn't fight when needed.

There's nothing to regret. My reasons for my position are not theirs.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Good for them. And the sons and daughters of the EU elite today?

Which is my point, and what people 80 or 110 years ago doesn't guarantee a repeat.

And they'll also have to overcome their tendency to look down their noses at the cannon fodder classes.

Gen Z are being fired in record numbers so might not get a chance to be 'cannon fodder'


Why are companies firing Gen Z employees soon after hiring them?

 

[Kilted]

The sons and daughters of the elevated classes have given more than any other group in the UK, it is one of the things I respect them most for. Approximately 20-25% of the nobility was killed in WWI and WWII for the Brits, and it is what greatly weakened their power in the country.

Our country should follow their lead where most our political leaders and upper classes have nothing to do with the military and have no skin in the game. It is easy to send people to their deaths when you yourself won’t be facing any direct consequences.

I've heard the argument made that Canada has a Middle-Class military. I can't speak for the Reg Force, but I know a fair number of reservists who own their own business or work in pretty significant executive roles, and not all of them are officers. We are also a very educated military. I don't know if this numbers for this, but it would be interesting to know how many NCM's have post-secondary degrees. The number I imagine would be understated. I'm not sure that anyone else has this issue, but I have been attempting to tell the CAF that I am a university degree, but no matter wherever I send the documentation it doesn't end up in MM/MPRR. However, last time I looked at my pers file there was a physical copy that someone went thought the effort to hole punch it and put it in my file, but didn't bother to enter it into Guardian.

 

[dapaterson]

I've heard the argument made that Canada has a Middle-Class military. I can't speak for the Reg Force, but I know a fair number of reservists who own their own business or work in pretty significant executive roles, and not all of them are officers. We are also a very educated military. I don't know if this numbers for this, but it would be interesting to know how many NCM's have post-secondary degrees. The number I imagine would be understated. I'm not sure that anyone else has this issue, but I have been attempting to tell the CAF that I am a university degree, but no matter wherever I send the documentation it doesn't end up in MM/MPRR. However, last time I looked at my pers file there was a physical copy that someone went thought the effort to hole punch it and put it in my file, but didn't bother to enter it into Guardian.

"Didn't bother to enter it into Guardian" is the Army Reserve in a nutshell; personnel administration is not treated as an important function.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Gen Z are being fired in record numbers so might not get a chance to be 'cannon fodder'

A wartime military isn't going to be as selective.

Generations or cultural blocs which have convinced themselves - rightly or wrongly, doesn't matter - that society as currently organized puts them at a disadvantage or is penalizing them to give advantages to others don't have a strong stake in defending that society, and even less stake in defending someone else's.

 

[Brad Sallows]

I've heard the argument made that Canada has a Middle-Class military.

Canada has a middle-class peacetime military. If the prospects of a wartime military include becoming a statistic in a muddy hole somewhere in Ukraine, the profile might change.