Recent content by markppcli

Well Alex McColl is a huge Gripen guy on twitter... well huge in the context of Canadian defence commentary. HT sounds like they work at DLR 5-4 outside of the gripen comments.

The only complaint is the brown mesh looks worse than black mesh. However after a full day of sledding in the mou trains, complete with a lot of digging my snowmobile out, I would dry out the base layer in not time at all. Thats on my body under layers as well.

I have the new base layers - 9.5/10

They didn't fire on Nanook

The reality is though that its much easier to equipment units when we have size, mission, and tasks assigned. Equipping the 60 plus maneuver units when they vary in size from 35 to 220 isnt going to be efficient.

Daniel Smith thrilled she won't have to run a deficit

Not as though he has a history of sexual assaults.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump "Mariah Billado, Miss Vermont Teen USA, is one of five women to mention such a dressing room visit incident in 1997.[194] Billado said of the visit: "I remember putting on my...

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My point was ze Germans had a better system to get some value out of people who objected to mikitary service.

If you have national service what do you do with conscientious objectors? Well for some that means they do necessary civil work. Ie life guards, hospital orderlies, etc. Your tax dollars already pay for those life guards what's the difference?

By bran h you mean corps / branches or do you mean army as a branch? Objectively not the case. People are proud of their branches and what they do. If you broke up the 3 regular infantry regiments and frankly wed just replace one tribalism for another, and have just as many people working in...

Not really though, the Div is purely administrative. An actual division that is concerned with all three CMBGs is going to be more hands on.

I actually think grouping the Bdes and giving some actual command oversight is a pretty important step forward.

If we judged every regiment by its most embarrassing members the RRCA would be banned from owning dogs.

Because since WW2 everyone decided reorganization and redesignation was spitting on their history. Look at the BCR - they have history as artillery and infantry, as needs changed their name and tasks changed to match the requirements.