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It would be logical from a combined arms training point of view to have an armoured regiment and a mechanized infantry regiment on each base. 🍻

That's a particular biproduct of a system that lives off of taxpayer money. In private industry, for the most part, the rule is to cut your losses rather than throwing good money after bad. 🍻

Just further to the above. Armouries ranges etc all come under the regional support battalions. Some of the amalgamated 30/70 units would operate out of their existing armouries while others would need different facilities to cater to the equipment they get (I envision every unit at full...

I haven't gone to anything as detailed as armouries etc. I do see a basic change in infrastructure as follows: For training, I use the existing infrastructure with one exception. In my mind there is a new Canadian Army Individual Training Group which has several regional depot battalions each...

To get this back on track for artillery, no artillery unit would be full regular force. In this lay-down, 1 Div is the defence of the homeland division. 2 Inf Bde is the regular force quick reaction airborne brigade, while 39 and 36 Inf Bdes are anti-access/area denial brigades. Every fires...

I know this is heretical, but my view is that three airborne battalions is all the regular force infantry that Canada needs. I would assign all three of those battalions as part of the defence of Canada division. Beyond that I think that the remaining 18 regular force companies should be part of...

My reading between the lines is that the RAF is saying that we just don't want to play silly-bugger with you folks anymore: it's expensive, it takes airplanes away from actual valuable work and quite frankly its boring stuff in peacetime which will probably kill us and our very expensive...

Hey @daftandbarmy! 🍻

My experiences were with both German and Italian army draftees and in general were quite positive. Italians even created sergeants and 2nd lieutenants from their draftee intake leaving a very small pool of officers and senior NCOs in the regiment to be "professional" soldiers. 🍻

That can certainly be done. We re-role field artillery to air defence. These are different skill sets. In the past we've re-roled cavalry to machine gun and infantry to anti tank. It can be done. The thing is though that there are so few army reservists, that it isn't necessary to re-role...

It wasn't when there were MilDists under MilAreas reporting the FMC HQ after Suttie from 1968 to 1991. I know that military memories are short but this appears full circle as it stands. Titanic! Deckchairs! Let me disagree, my friend. We're at the point where we need to start building mass...

They already were under a div hq with command oversight. If that wasn't enough then it was a systemic failure. I don't disagree that creating a "war fighting " division is a good step forward. I don't think that's what you're getting. What you're getting is an administrative entity overseeing a...

No it doesn't. The history doesn't impede anything if you have a proper future to work towards. The reason people look backwards is because they have nothing to look forward to. If I was a reservist these days and told that my future would be homeland defence and "no, we don't know what that...

I'm having real problems in putting my finger on where the problem is. During my interviews for WAFG I spoke to a very large cross-section of folks - from gunners to CDSs. Folks at the top aren't dumb. They're amongst the best that the system develops but it strikes me that, as a system, it is...

It gets back to our Brit heritage which was different from the European and American derivative of that. It's a peacetime/wartime thing. In peace you organize to simplify admin and training. In war its different. You won't see your FOOs and BC hardly ever, which is why we have BKs to command and...