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Well, your comments to this point have focused on a fleet of three vehicles that disgorge 25 pers without consideration for structure, and (offered more recently) that you prefer dismounted sections of 6 or 8 pers. So now we have a structure for your dismounts - Pl HQ, 2x rifle sect, and sp det...

Except, you already decided that you want section carriers for nine dismounts. Mixing fractions of sections in carriers is not an optimal solution. The Americans are making things work with the Bradley. Why would we propose to bake that sort of nonsense into the organizational design when not...

Canada used the three section platoon in 4 CMBG. There was no lack of brigade level training there … and they even trained up to within a corps context. It’s hard to imagine that aversion to a two section platoon is rooted in a modern lack of collective training above the battalion level.

We need the parade ponch … or the bond vilain

34 comes from your math of 9 dismounts in a section carrier and seven in the comd vehicle. A platoon in not just a quantity of people without structure. Two section carriers and a comd vehicle give you two sections, a sp det, and an HQ. That is not going to be effective on the objective even if...

Because 34 (three sections, a wpns det, and Pl HQ) is relatively proven structure and fits our doctrine. Smaller for the sake of smaller or bigger for the sake of bigger would require some sort of justification and some explainer as to how you think the dismounts would fight (since the proposed...

Using his math of 7 dismounts from Pl Comd vehicle & 9 dismounts from a sect carrier vehicle.

Does it? What about the combat capacity that you are giving up? 34 dismounts in a four vehicle platoon would be a higher ratio than 25 dismounts in a three vehicle platoon.

Why?

Most people afraid of cell towers probably don’t know what side lobes are, and instead they imagine uniform circular fields of emissions cantered on the tower.

Assuming CJOC does not still own 1 Cdn Div.

Assumptions can be necessary, but maybe not as the foundational premise of an argument.

It is all 1 CAD.

Nothing in your costal batteries adds significant value except the RPAS that probably don’t belong in artillery batteries.

He is talking about using the military to punish cities.