Recent content by Ludoc

There is also an institutional plan to life cycle blue fleet vehicles. After a set amount of time/kilometers/repair dollars each vehicle is retired and a replacement is procured. With green fleet vehicles you are stuck with what you have until the next project delivers (20-30 years). If someone...

But in, many cases, that is the point. We always endeavour to help Canadians as much as we can. However, we are not professional wildland firefighters nor flood mitigation specialists, we are a poor tool to respond to these crises. Quite often, by the time are deployed it is too late for us to...

$40,000. We don't issue PRRs anymore, we haven't been buying replacements for over a decade. Anything a unit has that dies is not replaced. Instead we use Harris handhelds. Modern communication systems are expensive. If you want a vehicle you can take into a training area or use during Dom Ops...

You are wishing away a lot of the cost. It has been a little while since I looked it up but a Harris radio (the kind of thing we are moving to and is pretty wide spread through NATO) costs about $40,000. Doubling the price of your build. On top of that you need to convert the electronic system...

They didn't say they would deliver the subs 12 months. It was the self propelled guns that could be delivered in that time. The timeline for subs was 4 by 2035. The video also said they had proposed crew training to go along with that. That means 10 years to transition from our current subs to...

Don't over think it, we want you to join. Be able to articulate why you want to be a reservist, why you are choosing NCM/Officer, and how much time you can honestly commit to the job.

Yes, you need courses to drive LSVW and HLVW. We just shipped a bunch more Mac trucks over there, so I don't think there are many (any? maybe just wreckers?) HLVWs are in use over there. Based on your quals it sounds like are a reservist. If so, you are most likely qualified MSVS-Milcot...

Having a set schedule like that, and stickng to it, helps a lot. Pers can plan their own PT around unit PT (if Mondays are run days, maybe I won't make Sunday leg day). It also helps the people plannng the PT. Telling one of my Cpls that they are leadng next Wednesday's circuit and they should...

That makes sense, as a collection of purple trades why waste the time of people supporting boats learning about trenches and people living in tents don't need to know about fighting fires in enclosed spaces. However, it goes to my point above. The apparatus still needs to exist to run BMQ-A...

I'll dump on CFSCE all day long but this is not a situation of their making. They are doing the best they can in this circumstance. But it is ridiculous they have been put in it. How is more efficient to have "soldier skills" instructors and equipment to support that training at CFSCE, CFSAL...

I get it. We have the same problem. There is so much to know and courses are so long that we are constantly short people, as well. I don't know what the solution is, but firmly believe, no longer teaching them to be soldiers isn't going to do us any favours in the long run. So a bunch of Sigs...

After getting rid of SQ/BMQ-A for support trades you would be surprised how few inside the field Army have done those things.

100%, if PT is important, then it is important enough to do during work hours. If having to set aside time for PT lowers operational outputs then we, as leaders, should send that message up the chain. The chain then has three choices: 1. we do less operational stuff but have fit troops; 2. we...

It depends what your contract says. Are you supporting an exercise, working in an orderly room, working on a maintenance TAV? Different jobs will have different expectations.

Not everything needs to be a LAV. If you need a hole dug you call the engineers and they bring an MPEV. Should they be able to dig holes under armour? Maybe. If so, why hamstring them by trying to bolt a bucket to a LAV? Armoured front end loaders exist. Yes, small orphan fleets are bad, but...