Recent content by boredtoon

This is my point though. Outside of the Pte/Cpls who get to be a dude in a section in the infantry company in latvia, the only deployments are staff work. My trade means nothing, it doesn't matter if I am an infantry officer or a log O, or a basket weaving O, they are all GSO positions.

Augmentation above corporal is a joke anyways. I am starting PDT for my second deployment, I am a reserve Inf O, will I ever get to actually deploy in an infantry capacity? No, not until WW3.

Current discussions have the CARB as a 2 or 3 year Class C contract. The bulk of troops would sign a 2 year contract, spend a year training, then a year in the breach for dom/exped ops. Key leadership would be on a 3 year contract. There are even some discussions that all exped augmentation...

We were flat out told that the goal is for the infantry units in the brigade to grow to 600, and the armoured ones to 450. No answer on what additional resources will be provided to assist that yet.

Yes, lots of info, lots of discussions, lots of powerpoints. The bulk of what I said in my comment has come from the slide decks surrounding CAMO and the recent Infantry Advisory Boards, and some slide decks from the different CBG HQs as they figured out what to group. What seems to be the...

Almost every CBG is implementing tactical grouping with its infantry and armoured units. As the army makes the transition from ad hoc battlegroup ops to divisional ops, it has been identified that the reserve units need to be capable of deploying formed sub-units and operating effectively. With...

I quote "No actions by DLR, DSSPM or contractor will ever cause a delay. Never have. Never will." lol Maybe we should just do away with badges....

Project has slipped a year to the right according to Sharepoint. Delivery is now 2028, even though design was completed mid-2025 and about 6 months ago projected rollout was end 2026. The new combat uniform has also slipped a year to the right, so delivery is 2029.

I'll keep an eye out for it then, although I may end up buying both. I've 'acquired' enough books from OceansofPDF over the last year, I sort of owe authors around the world some of my business.

In your opinion, would altering 294 into something that can be a service offence or infraction be beneficial then? I don't know of a single officer or SNCO who has the bandwidth on top of their career + Class A service to get the ball rolling on charging 294 in civy court.

Thats all very interesting. But I still don't see how it works in relation to how I have always been told Class A service works. How can you be charged for not attending parade when you only serve when you consent to serve? Maybe @FJAG has the answer.

I was hoping you were going to jump in on this. How does 294 work with the nature of Class A service? How do you charge a Class A soldier for not attending as ordered when the whole concept of being class A is that you consent to when you serve? Also, would 294 have to go through a civilian...

I don't think in the current framework that this drill could be enforced. There are of course provisions for placing reservists on active service, but I don't think they would apply to training or readiness exercises, or at least would be very unpalatable politically. Although, we talked about...

A fragmenting plate won't punch through the kevlar in the soft armour of the frag vest. It could fragment up into the head and neck, but if youve been shot in the chest or back by 5.56 or 7.62, its punching right through that training plate and kevlar anyways and now you have a GSW. The solution...

The training plates are incredibly brittle and will shatter if dropped. At some point someone made the call to not shoot in them for fear of little ceramic shards being propelled upwards into the face and neck. However, this was never codified into an actual policy. Depending on your range staff...