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There are two good Broadway musical songs about being a spouse / partner at home, and writing letters to your deployed husband / boyfriend: Here Alone from Little Women, and Dear Bill from Operation Mincemeat.

The NDA provides for continuing liability under the CSD.

You assume they care about evidence on what they do.

The Army uses all units, Reg and Res, to generate ad hoc deployable units for operations. It's a larger circle to square than just the Res F. There is a strong need to rationalize what Res units do - they should not be doing recruiting or pre-OFP training or training management. As long as...

Do not confuse Army Res F unit establishments with being operational structures. Nor should you confuse "number of people against a UIC" with "anything resembling a combat capability".

Maybe the real friends are the warehouses we counted along the way.

For summary proceedings the standard is a balance of probabilities; for court marital, it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Both are parts of the military justice system.

Fitch CT'd to the Res F and announced to one and all how Reserve he was (on an annuitant 330 day class B while collecting his pension).

Squandered by putting it under Res F personnel with no knowledge or understanding of the CAF or government.

A justice system has as an objective institutional impacts - "faire un exemple pour encourager les autres". Administrative measures are not public and thus have less of a deterrent effect.

That was a rectal pluck from the team behind LFRR. They did not define the requirements. They did not oversee technical implementation to ensure it met requirements. They did not make plans to ensure the product would be sustainable. They were, charitably, self-important charlatans and...

A military run by MBAs does not survive long. Sustainment is inherently wasteful, if properly designed, because of the tremendous variability in military engagements. Having "almost enough" fuel and ammunition is synonymous with having not enough.

Already an aluminum smelter up there (so obviously lots of electric power), not sure if the paper mill is still around or not...

The last actuarial review (as of 31 March 2022, triennial review as of closure of 31 March 2025 should be underway) stated that the CFSA part I fund has approximately $41B in assets for an estimated $37B in liabilities. Pension Plans for the Canadian Forces – Regular Force and Reserve Force as...

SISIP has nothing to do with pensions.

There is an article available on Postmedia sites that can't be shared here that has a few screen captures.

Trump voter's Canadian wife, seeking to regularize her long time US residency, arrested by ICE (and other Canadian stories). https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadians-ice-detention-1.7577584

The ultimate plot twist would be a transfer of an RCN AOPs to USCG getting hung up on USN imposing ITAR restrictions scuttling the whole thing.

A large vat of hackle dye?

Upstream's founder worked for both Ford brothers. That's interesting, given the friction between the federal and Ontario provincial conservatives in the last election; is this a fig leaf between factions?