Recent content by FJAG

Whatever happened to the old practice of reporters writing under pseudonym? Seems like the right time to restore that old tradition. :giggle:

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This is why I'm an advocate of converting all the CAF WO ranks to versions of staff sergeant, master sergeant etc to supply the NCM leadership required and using the WO rank title the way that the American army does as a rank group that falls between the current NCMs and officers. I would see...

I'm the last guy to say that something can't be done but in this case the attempt was there before back in the 2000s. It failed for a number of reasons mostly lack of resources and a decent methodology. The CAF is a little anal when it comes to creating "equivalencies" for civilian trades and...

The two concepts work together. You need to think in days because that's how the whole public service/military complex operates. It's fundamental to pay which is what makes the PS world go round. It's also fundamental to programming. I'm of the view that 25 day blocks (which fit nicely into a...

I think that the one thing we have to change is the concept of where individual training (IT) and collective training (CT) happens in the ARes. IMHO, the first thing as far as IT is concerned is that DP1 for NCMs and officers need to be identical for ARes and RegF. That requires upping what the...

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That's counterproductive. In a "total" army you need to work to some level of hybridization between full-timers and part-timers in reserve organizations. That's just the nature of the beast. Take a 600 man part-time battalion with 200 pieces of heavy equipment and tens of thousands of small...

That depends entirely on which end of sustainment you look at. Transport companies are a dead easy sell and would work in small rural armouries. Logistics can be done too. Maintenance is obviously harder because it has a full-time element to it but even here, in a hybrid organization, there is...

Bingo on both counts. BUT, there needs to be an end to end plan and a roadmap. My fear is that the folks that should be making things happen will be so wound up in the three divisions that are in motion that there will be no one to press the gas pedal or steer the "Canada Force" division...

I was a teenager/early twenties during much of the Vietnam era. TV was nothing like today with only three US networks but the constant stream of film and news articles from Vietnam and the summer protests were quite demoralizing. Casualty figures ran into the dozens to hundreds each week. There...

That wasn't my point at all. My point was in response to @Kirkhill 's statement, "de Toqueville marvelled that the American system worked without coercion and relied on voluntarism." America had for well over a century abandoned the reliance on volunteers and the minuteman spirit and instead...