Recent content by boredtoon

I look forward to seeing the data in a year. Did more troops make it to their DP1/RQ than other cohorts who did not do this course? How were they employed in their formations while waiting? It will be an interesting read.

Wait, you guys are getting RegF Capts in your unit?

Growing the ARes at the moment is not necessarily that daunting of a challenge. This Fiscal year, every reserve infantry regiment from Barrie to St Catharines will enroll 40 privates and 2 officer cadets. And that's not because they can only enroll 40, its because that is the maximum they are...

ICE jacket and parka still have magazine pockets, no need to fret!

New Army service dress rolls out, issued by unit, in Q4 2026, and new combat uniform rolls out in Q4 2027, you just gotta hold on until then.

Modern combat uniforms looks very similar across nato, particularly with everyone also using multicam. When I was in Kuwait, the only nations who's uniforms stood out and could be identified without having to see the flag were us and the brits, and we only stood out because the Canadians were...

Maybe we leave the MRes speculation in the other threads, and keep this one for being uniform nerds lol. I don't think the MRes gets uniforms though.

I will neither confirm nor deny the existence of a draft 'No. 5A garrison dress' image on Sharepoint which shows the new combats with the shirt tucked in and a regimental stables belt represented by a royal blue canadian army stables belt. I will share these images of the trial uniform that...

That is literally the concept. everyone on the MRes would be expected to attend a yearly 5 day training event. DAG, update education/qualifications on record, weapons handling, fitness test, handful of other lectures/lessons. Start missing your 5 day event? off the list. It will take some...

While I can't speak to 33 CBG, I can tell you that the GDLS boogeyman in 31 CBG is way overblown. There are way less GDLS employees who are Class A than the jokes imply. If anything, GDLS employment is over represented at the Snr Officer level, and 31 CBG has enough Majors and LCols to fill the...

Skill issue, as the young troops would call it. Again, we don't have that issue in my area. Half a dozen reserve units in the area and none of them have a release backlog of more than a handful who are more than a couple months removed from the date they handed in their memo.

This is not an issue we seem to have down in my area. From letter to release, its consistently about 8-12 months, and most of that is the waiting periods between letter sent out, chance for them to come in, etc.

There is a capability to compel service. The same as any other reservist. A member of the MRes, who applies, and is enrolled, then completes modules of training to bring them to a point where they can be employed during a crisis is more than just a list. What do you mean by this? There is no...

I don't really get your gripe with the system. it's basically the Individual Ready Reserve system the americans use, but instead of for all trades, its for specific technical trades where a civilian can basically walk into the job with their existing quals.

The new Directorate General of Mobilization has some PowerPoints available on their SharePoint for members of the CAF to peruse. One of the concepts they are moving forward with is a new sub-component of the PRes, similar in function to the SuppRes. This new component, which has not been given...