Recent content by McG

That’s not how colleges work. You are conflating college and university. In Canada, those have different meanings. They are governed & accredited differently by provinces. With those colleges actually being universities, you open the door what lenaitch warns of. If CAF wants colleges, then...

Where was this from? The table is missing the new Army Training Centre (the formation) which will own the Army Training Centres (former div TCs) and (I believe) also the reserve battle schools.

This is all ideal, and it can work. But if we go back in the conversation to the proposal that we fill the PM positions with current or retired LCols, that idea creates problems for the junior & mid-range majors who we assign to PD jobs.

No. If you look outside aircraft & warships, the seniority difference between PD & PM is typically a constant through a project … right until close-out when everyone wants to abandon the file before finishing the work. So you’ve never worked on an RCAF project for operations support equipment then?

That's easy to say but, outside of fighters and warships, most PDs are junior to their supporting PM and many are on on their first posting in the NCR. I've seen every level from PM to ADM(Mat) at different times tell the CA what its needs are. When it happens at the top level, it leads to...

The problem with PM staff who are former military is that they forget they are no longer military and they start telling the military what it needs.

That's generally what I hear from the career Class B types, and it is a solution that we could implement within the NDA as it exists today. It would also substantially reduce the competition for Reserve Pay funds, because they would no longer be a mechanism to circumvent government set PY caps.

Is this stuff that is really best done by uniforms? It seems like work that could be well handled by a civilian project manager, which would free a PY for a job on a base. The solution to most of the problems you describe here is to end Class B is a career path. Someone wants to be full time...

Clearly, you are also not a master negotiator.

It's not the state's broadcaster if it's owned by the king himself.

He’s threatening Europe over the idea too.

What a very Putin-esque thing to say. https://nationalnewswatch.com/2026/09/16/cp-newsalert-trump-calls-canada-becoming-associate-member-of-eu-a-hostile-act

Also need to ensure our requirements are address in the standard of infrastructure. Not that we do a good job of it now anyway, but the airport closest to a major CA base should be able to support the new Husky at max troop & cargo carrying weight to enable force projection.

Based on the current allocated structure, there is historical precedent to call the formation (as it is now) either 3 Canadian Light Infantry Brigade or 3 Infantry Group. But, the last time CA bundled a bunch of different cap badges into an organization that it called a regiment, that regiment...