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Theres a slide-deck on Sharepoint that discusses the different COAs, and some of the points for maintaining 10 CBGs was that it was the path of least resistance, there is a strong desire to keep the CBG Comds AOR within an 8 hour drive end to end, and to maintain ARes Col positions that actually...

No sweat. The ROD is stamped from like, last Wednesday.

This is incorrect. The Continental Division is 10 CBGs, and a Canadian Ranger Brigade, reporting directly to Div. They got rid of Area HQs during COA selection as it added an unnecessary level of bureaucracy.

Maybe! SQ was a bit before my time. I taught either the last BMQ-L or the second last BMQ-L to run in the brigade, and only two of the staff were infantry, myself and the Crse 2IC. The rest of the staff were a mix between armoured and artillery (which make up the bulk of the reserve units in...

No details yet on the proposed SQ that I could find. But based on the broad scope of the course, I would be confident betting that staff who can teach BMQ can teach this. At least on the ARes side, we aren't struggling to get troops through BMQ. Its the DP1s. When you look at staff...

Having read the draft canadian Army Modernization Order, seen the approved army restructure, we can all calm down. No PRes unit is going away, or being reduced in size. the CAMO specifically states that healthy reserve units may be tactically grouped with under strength units until they can grow...

As per the DLR slides on sharepoint, the FS rifle will have better accuracy, and an effective range at the individual level out to 600m (? I can't remember the number right now, I can check when I am back at work). The GS rifle will be slightly less accurate than the FS, but still more accurate...

-This initiative is brought to you by the Council of Honourary Colonels Joking aside, I don't think it will be anything related to pay. A couple months ago the CDS stated that details on the pay raise weren't coming until the fall. I think the announcement will be that the government is going...

Scott taylor frequently has the dumbest opinions on nearly every military topic. His proposed solution to fix the CAFs struggle to train what it intakes is to introduce conscription, and intake more people.

A few things. Cost is number one. If the Forage or Service Cap become a mandatory issued item, the cost of headwear goes up, therefore the budget for service dress uniforms needs to increase, or savings need to be found in other uniform components (gabardine moves from issued to optional...

If you search "Service Dress" on sharepoint, you can find a powerpoint titled "Updates to CA Dress" that was updated today. It covers service dress and the new CCUE operational dress.

There is a few PPTs on ACIMS. Red sash will remain with the infantry. If you zoom in on the images, all models wear a generic army cap badge and the collar dogs are the Royal Canadian Infantry Corps collar dogs. NCMs will wear black parade boots, officers will wear brown oxfords and brown...

Never, except to run IBMG. There's not a lot of them, and they are held exclusively as course resources. The Reg Force inf bns may have better luck getting some for training.

Not quite, Tables are held at brigade. The unit has SF Kits and C2 sights. We for sure use the SF kits and C2 for famil every year (Mark and lay). But without the tables, we can't do the famil on map and table every year, except for theory lessons. Not sure how they were re-acquired. But I'm...

IBMG is a standard course for reserve infantry units. IBMG also includes map and table firing. Most units try to put all their new Pte/Cpls through it. I know in my regiment, we do famil on the SF kit and C2 sight at least once a year. We try to shoot with the SF kit on at least one range, but...