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    CANFORGEN on Military Service Pay released

    You mean DWAN CMP -> Compensation and Benefits -> Military Pay Administrative Instructions?
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    I should also call out the prosecution who saw fit to say that this transgression was not worthy of a custodial sentence.
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Presumably a military judge was once a lawyer. How does one give a captain in possession of meth an absolute discharge? https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/canadian-military-officer-acquitted-of-fentanyl-cocaine-trafficking/ It appears, once again, that Military Judges overlook the first...
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    CANFORGEN on Military Service Pay released

    FAQ, linked above, still says: "The first payment, for the period of April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026, is expected in December 2026."
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    As a JSF MOU participant, Canada was promised contracts in line with the Canadian share of the MOU. But there was no commitment to buy aircraft ever made under the Conservative government.
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    If you never sign a contract to buy aircraft, you haven't bought aircraft. The Conservative government never signed a contract. Much like the Mulroney promise to buy a dozen SSNs. No contract.
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Arkansas: The state official responsible for the bar exam allegedly modified results, raising some scores to pass, lowering others, in at least one case lowering the score below the pass line, and allegedly boosting one person's score to make them the top candidate in their class...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    The Conservatives never committed through the JSF MOU to acquire any F35s. Zero. Nada. Rien.
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    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    The Reg F wants to be a force in being, rather than a force that generates readiness.
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    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    Back of the cigarette pack math: a class B captain is $100,000 in salary. If we use $200/day as the average cost per person on an Army Reserve exercise, that's $500 per weekend. So every class B captain is the equivalent of two weekend exercises for 100 people each. Just maybe the incessant...
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    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Hopefully one or more Democrats know history, and realize that from Ford pardoning Nixon to Reagan's election was seventy three months and twenty seven days.
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    Do we need Cadets? Should they be military/uniformed? (split from Trump administration 2024-2028)

    Don't worry, I'm equally obsessed with the abolition of the military colleges as degree granting institutions, the elimination of the Skyhawks and the abolition of the Snowbirds.
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    Do we need Cadets? Should they be military/uniformed? (split from Trump administration 2024-2028)

    There's nothing wrong with ORIOLE that a sinkex wouldn't solve.
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    Range Safety Qual

    Most of those documents have moved from the DWAN to the old Army SharePoint to the new Army SharePoint, successful breaking all links.
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