Recent content by FJAG

Mate, I'm so old that my first flight in the military (also first flight ever) was on a Yukon cross country shuttle. Add in Cosmos and the 707 shuttle. Had a short flight in a DC-3 out of Winnipeg once - an engine quit just after takeoff so quick turn around to land. Buffalos and Hercs. Once in...

None of those scenarios need a training headquarters (Big "R" Regiment with many batteries) as opposed to a tactical headquarters (small "r" regiment which includes the tactical/operational C2 functions) We don't disagree - I go a step further and want hybrid tactical regiments. I don't think...

I think that I'll bow out here. I understand exactly what you are talking about and its an issue I had to address when I went to the JAG CIMP. The way I managed technology in my civilian office - a three-year rolling acquisition program (a slight variation of your 2 BCAD per year concept) -...

That I'll agree with. Not with what follows. So far okay but not really relevant and I should point out there was a period when a grouping of three or four artillery batteries was called a brigade. Here's where you lose me. In effect we already have that. Each of the three regular force...

Huh. Flashback of my visiting my uncle at work in the mid sixties after he moved from building crane carriers to building aircraft for De Haviland at Downsview. I remember sitting with him in the cockpit of a half-built Buffalo that he was riveting components together. So many rivets. 🍻

That's correct. I wasn't too clear. After 3 PPCLI was reformed as 2 Cdn Guards in 1953 there was no 3 PPCLI until 1970. On 26 Apr 1970, 1 QOR, then at Work Point Barracks in Victoria, was deactivated and all its remaining personnel were rebadged as the newly reactivated 3 PPCLI. (the 2nd Bn...

I'm not sure if your explanation helped clarify the question. The only one of these projects I have any insight to is JFM. The project specifies what components are within the scope of the project and which are outside. For example the joint fires command and control software is within scope. A...

If you want to have the Queen's Own stood up then just rebadge some of your mob back to what they were back in the '50s and '60s. The Guards were formed because Simonds in 1953 because being an Anglophile and being given the pleasure of increasing the size of the regular army, and having the...

Just guessing here but it sounds a bit like the Brit system in 3 UK Div where 12th and 20th Armoured Brigade Combat Teams each have a reserve light bns of the same regiment twinned with the Reg F mech inf bns (e.g. 1 Mercian and 4th Mercian (Res) / 5 The Rifles and 7 The Rifles (Res)). They...

Yeah the two RegF units that went were the 8CH and FGH. Both of those continue as ARes units. Of the two, the FGH RegF were shut down in 1970 while the 8 CH continued on until (I could be wrong on the dates here) around 1992 when 4 CMBG came back from Germany and the RCD took the 8Ch's place as...

That's a point of view thing. Back when I was a subbie in 2 RCHA in the dark ages, one of my extra regimental duties was to sort out the 4 RCHA regimental silver (and stuff) which had become comingled in the 2 RCHA messes and send them off to the RCA Museum for storage in the event of...

It's pretty new when you consider that hundreds upon hundreds of units from WW2 were simply disbanded. The Supp Ord of Battle came about in the 1960s as a result of the Suttie commissions closures of Militia units and post unification RegF unit reductions. The Aupp Ord of Battle system makes it...

The supplementary order of battle is actually a pretty new affair started in the 1960s. There aren't that many units on it - 3 armoured, 23 artillery and 8 infantry. Which of these are allegedly merging with the Franco units? :unsure:

Had a few cases yesterday and the day before where the pages were slow loading. Not consistent - intermittent. Seems fine today. W