Recent content by FJAG

While legislation isn't sacrosanct, I like to start with what is available off-the-shelf. That means full-timers and part-timers broken into easy to work with classes: primary, supplementary and Canadian Rangers (and yes cadet instructors) One needs a plan as to what the end product is that you...

While I agree with a very few of the things you say I'm particularly opposed to the concept you have of 10 brigades four of which have 1 deployed and heavy equipped, 1 also heavy and ready rotatable with the 1st, and 2 are light ready brigades all presumably RegF or RegF heavy. The other six...

This has been true for decades and is based on the reality that a) we usually are exercising just a battlegroup or, at best, a rump brigade; and b) that an offensive operation can't operate with just a battlegroup or rump brigade because it would very quickly be hammered to crap from the flanks...

Yes. Yes they were. I took a look at a map of Pendleton. There is a tiny strip of land to the west of Interstate 5 with the bulk of the base to the east. I have no idea where this "display" (i.e. the impact point was to take place, but on the map the battery appears to be less than a kilometre...

Actually you are dead wrong. I've stopped going south over the bullshit and insanity running rampant down there. I've in the past been a great fan of the US and vacationed down there with other Canadians, many of whom I know personally. We all know we're in a foreign country and that it's...

In fairness there has been acceptance of the 155mm Assegai range of munitions. I've looked at some of the documentation and spoken with DLR2 folks who went to South Africa in 2009 to look into that and came back quite impressed with it as a class for use with the new M777s that Canada had...

And the American ambassador to Canada wonders why Canadians don't love Americans anymore? Considering that the average snowbird drops tens of thousands of dollars into the American economy for a three to four month stay . . . Talk about self-inflicted wounds. 🍻

You are confounding one unfortunate incident that was made in error with a deliberate plan to execute criminals without warning or legal process. The first is negligence at worst, the current program is murder. 🍻

That's true. Napoleon did pretty well in quelling an uprising with just one battery and a whiff of grapeshot. :giggle:

Actually that was me counting the department and the services GOFOs lists for that year and yes I counted all of those. 🍻

I think that's a leap. Most of our fighters are here because we need to train with them on a day to day basis to keep pilot proficiency. I expect there probably is a number required under our NORAD alert requirements (but have no idea how many those are). I guess if you want to stretch the...

One year ago you would have had no argument from me. I've become more equipment agnostic with the predominant view being that I couldn't give a frig where the origin of the equipment initially comes from so long as we have the IP and can manufacture it ourselves. Americans have become unreliable...

FTFY. Not all of us do. I for one am perfectly happy with "squadron commanders" (if only they were) and "petty officers." It strikes me requiring to argue for service specific rank badges misses the point. This is exactly the point. It's not just that people attach importance to these things...