Recent content by IRepoCans

For sure, I only used Kevin as he was the guy I've worked with the most on BMQs and DP1s (he, Matt, Danny and I basically lived together for the better part of two years out various armouries/bases) and was focusing more so on courses specific to an infanteer reaching OFP. But why I say it's a...

Since I'm in the loop within your AOR, there is a full time instructional staff, has been for four years doing both full time and part time courses concurrent (who have been responsible for keeping the bde's IT afloat for the same time frame). The problem within that particular bde has been the...

Oh god yes, especially if you have to shoot anywhere confined, and your friends will find it a lot more pleasant too.

For sure, I just don't understand the need for an 11.5 if they're not even intending to put a can on it (I can tell you that 6 callsigns will definitely gobble up the shorties in the battalion to run cans if there's a choice between 11.5 and 14.5); especially with current suppressor designs...

Mate, with reasonable ammo, a decent appreciation for connection to the gun and the appropriate firing position you can push to 500-600m effectively with an 11.5 with a reasonable amount of meaningful training/coaching. I've seen the slide show you are referring to, but the muzzle velocity...

Kind of nuts to think the Australian soldier has more or less been equipped like this for the better part of a decade if not longer.

You would be correct, I think they're on gen 5 currently, which also has different variations for SOF, combat arms and so on.

I can say at least on the 3RCR side of the house, multicam blends in just fine with MT (and the previous J-pat) so much so a lot of guys had multicam windshirts, puffys, and rain gear and no one cared too much. The plate carrier is actually a 1-for-1 copy of the OG Aussie TBAS (their later...

I would say it's a bit different to what you're saying, I meant quite literally the training establishment will fall through on ammunition, training aids or qualified instructors and simply waiver (or forget to waiver) an entire course on multiple POs; the logic being the battalion will somehow...

While I don't want to steer away the conversation about the infantry section, but being a lad that joined after our mission in Afghan ended and looking at what I've been exercised in and what our doctrine says I should be doing/able to do are quite incongruent. To steer us a bit back on track...

I imagine the man has not been in an IFV doing a stab run with a driver and gunner who only graduated DP1/RQIP 3-5 months prior, and a crew commander who just finished PLQ and ISCC (and he himself only has been in battalion for 4-6 years at this point) before. The rifle section has already been...

I agree on an AMG vs a GPMG with an arms room concept, with the ammunition I don't see NATO (and with it Canada making any big moves out of the 5.56 and 7.62 combination); especially with all the difficulties plaguing the American programs for the M7 and the 338 Norma GPMG. But there are things...

I agree on the section needing to be defined by tasks and threat range, but I wonder if the institution would demand or enforce sects and pls to exercise those tasks (given the number of times I've done a bunker assault within the context of a pl or coy attack, or lack thereof... I doubt it)...

Oh god yes, one of my pet peeves with the current C7/C8 pub and CFOSP is we teach that it's effective against point targets out to 400m but we have little to no range practices made to achieve that aim.

One could healthily argue that the current inventory we employ was for the COIN environment and we're now returning to the whole 600m-800m section effective range weapon loadout for LSCO without jumping into a whole new intermediate cartridge (which seems to be the play with the remainder of...