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Isn't that generally true of any DND DM?

Have we seen anything like this in Canada since the 50s? It strikes me that even under Mulroney in the 80s there was still a lot of "bare minimum."

Including a female Canadian gunner a few years back: Brant County woman rides into military history I've never really understood why so few men ride. Both my daughters rode competitively through their teenage years and it always seemed the vast majority of the riders at shows were female. So...

I believe it was Simmonds who decreed all the reg force artillery regiments be designated RCHA when he became CGS. I've always assumed that when 5 RALC was created the decision to not use RCHA was just the challenge of translating it (and maybe given the times not wanting to use "Royal").

"Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield." -- Churchill

"the M777s will be considered for long-term preservation..."

Fair point...

My bet is after. Why piss of the German chancellor in advance and doing it during a summit actually being hosted in Europe might come off as a little undiplomatic to say the least...

You would definitely have overlapped by a couple of years. Dad was in NDHQ from 1974 to 1987 but the last two years or so was working out of DGCB on a government wide pension reform project. He actually stayed on as a civilian to continue working on that project and didn't finally retire from...

Thank you both @FJAG and @daftandbarmy. My question stemmed from the perspective of looking at my father's career which spanned from 1942 to 1987 during the entirety of which he was "deployed" only once, for the first 4 years in the UK. But then most of his career was spent in the JAG and in...

I seem to recall the phrase "the exception that proves the rule" from my French lessons.

Forgive my civilian question but as I understand it the rule is everyone has to be deployable, correct? If so, I get that that would be standard that you would want to apply at the recruiting stage, and perhaps during the first few years of service. But it seems to me to be somewhat counter...

Removing the hereditary peers, live devolution, is the legacy of Tony Blair and I wonder if really Britain is better governed today than it was when he was elected. I'm not going to defend hereditary power (although the one benefit of the remaining hereditary peers was that many were...

I stand to be corrected by I don't think the UN authorized anything for Kosovo...the Russians would have vetoed it. It sticks in my mind because of course Canada took part in the Kosovo bombing campaign and I remember thinking at the time of Iraq that our protestations about no UN authorization...

Fair point