Recent content by PrairieFella

Where did most of those come from? SPs - so education and PNPs which is the provincial nominee program. The provinces asked for this on both counts. The feds arent without blame and they need to scrap the broken TFW system yesterday but the provinces wanting these people and then doing nothing...

Imagine the rancour if Biden had threatened "full force" from the military in a domestic capacity. If this isn't a line in the sand for supposedly decent Republicans, they aren't decent. This is five alarm fire territory.

The housing shortage situation is pretty well squarely the fault of provinces. Its provincial jurisdiction. If we were serious about the crisis, provincial legislatures would mandate as of right zoning for at least 4 plexes across all of their major cities facing shortages.

Are the riots in Portland in the room with us now? All the clips ive seen in the past few days look pretty calm, as in there are no riots calm.

God this shit drives me batty. Our flag isnt a halloween costume or an accessory. The worst part is the people who do this generally still act like the American stereotype and either make us as Canadians look bad or they just look like liars when Europeans see through it. Ive had the pleasure of...

Exactly.

Theyre basically guaranteed to win LUV. The other contenders are American manufactured and Armatec still hasmt announced anything years later at this point. Theyll do just fine. Its unfortunate LUV keeps getting pushed. Low priority I imagine. Perhaps @dapaterson has an insight there, but...

At that point its too late for NCOs and to a lesser extent junior officers. That skillset needs to be in place prior to the start of the war otherwise youre looking at months-long lagtimes in institutional knowledge.

So no reserve for the other trades when they start taking casualties? Not exactly a recipe for success.

Thats coming. Im allowing myself to be actually optimistic about potential change coming. We'll see if thats misplaced in a few months time.

Well we cant exactly dig the kit out of the ground, just like the regs. Odd take. I agree with several posters now that sustainment should be mainly reg. We cant exactly dig second and third line support facilities out of the ground either. I never said training plan, youre the one bringing...

History would tell us a country 5500km wide can do it, as we did it. Using tanks as an example since you bring it up, they were depoted at support bases with maybe a hull or two at the armoury for local training. This worked well from what I hear from the vets of the time. Those pretend crewmen...

100% agree, and I agree with the above point that sustainment should be a mainly reg game, too many moving parts beyond first line sustainment for the reserves to handle it effectively.

Other countries seem to have figured it out. Reservists operated tanks and APCs in the past. With funding and kit, we have to the technology and know-how to make gun go shoot and engine go vroom.

On the armoured side at least a large bottleneck for the reserves is the change in policy requiring reservists to have a PCF gunnery course to take RQ MCpl/Sgt. Makes sense at first look but then you realize they wont load us on LAV or tank quals unless deploying and reserve units often arent...