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That captures the point. Simply put we've declined to hold nuclear weapons because our neighbour had them and considered our terrain important enough to provide deterrence through the threat of their weapons against any hostile party. That situation has changed. The current US administration...

That, to me, is a clear signal that something is wrong with the system. And this is the fundamental reason why. At the legislative level, the RegF is defined as: And the ResF as: A reservists who serves for 15 years (and don't take me wrong, I fully understand your motivation and...

Fox indicates 3 deceased with no indication about a 4th. :(

As @Fabius points out the full name for the vehicle is the 'Light Armoured Vehicle 6.0 - Observation Post Vehicle' variant or 'LAV-OPV' or simply 'OPV'. There is some literature (such as Wikipedia and Vanguard) that confuses the artillery OPV with the original two-version Coyote vehicles and...

I agree. The above structure is for the close support regiment that is a part of the 1st division's artillery brigade and designed to support an armoured brigade. The division, which is located primarily in central and western Canada, also has a divisional HIMARS regiment of three batteries of...

Leaving aside the North to get back to M777 replacement . . . Just to reiterate my viewpoint - do not replace the M777; augment and expand the artillery with more kit but retain the M777s. Anyway . . . I'm just reading Watling, on Ukraine and came across this: This more than ever reinforces...

I've been speculating - without any evidence whatsoever but the slowness of the recovery and the depth involved - that the vehicle may have hit a soft spot on one side on the edge of some deep underwater scour or washout or embankment and turned turtle. It looks like they may have been following...

It never ceases to amaze me that Sweden, a country that hasn't been in a war since 1814, officially declared its neutrality in 1939, has 1/4 of the population of Canada and a defence budget of a little more than 1/2 of Canada's (albeit 2.4% of its GDP) is able to maintain a viable defence...

Mods I think its past time to give this 'missiles in the North' its own thread. 🍻

That's all that I found too. DND isn't to good at making major historic documents available online. :(

Agreed. And agreed as to what followed re the components of building elitism. I'm not sure where you re going with that last part. I guess its the same for RMC grads having no idea what OCTP officers' experiences are, especially now that the last of that breed is well into retirement. By...

I'll agree with the "appearance" of "prestige." When I joined my regiment as a newbie subbie there were three of us who were OCTP, two RMC and one ROTP by way of civvy university. The two RMCers were considered God's gift to the world, us three OCTP rats were the scum of the earth and the civvy...