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I've heard from higher that things have sorta changed since that Ranger went to go visit the PM a couple years ago but yeah. Rangers have always been a convenient way to pump money into isolated communities but I remember there being quiet the scene during Op Lentus in BC during 2017 when...

The Rangers has grown a lot in the last decade including their funding. There has been a fair bit of mission creep in my opinion and some of their deployments during for example domops could be seen as scandalous under certain lights.

There are definitely ex service members in the patrols particularly in BC but a significant majority of the Rangers are not ex service members including the local patrol leadership who get voted in.

Pray tell?

So back to the old days of Territorial Army, Volunteer Reserves? Funny how full circle they have gone after canning the "Territorial Army"

Surprised no one has mentioned the Ranger Bar for the SSM you can get after 3 or 4 ranger exercises. Choose your own kit, vote on your ranks, no accountability, and spotlight trips to the PMs residence..... sounds like a sweet gig!

https://web.archive.org/web/20150326190445/http://army.gov.au/~/media/Content/Our%20future/About/Army%20101%20Brief%20Ver%207%20-%20Modernising%20from%20Beersheba%20and%20Beyond%20v4.pdf While old, the attached force structure for the Australian Army in 2015 flys in the face of a pretty admin...

https://globalnews.ca/news/9442804/canadian-forces-decade-of-darkness/ . . ....alright then

From what I heard at the time that Spring ex was spun up with a week or two notice for troops so Im surprised anyone showed up.

This is completely unacceptable and unworkable as the Royal Westminster Regiment won't be given the jump tasking and as you may know the regiment was a jump regiment not so long ago....../s All jokes aside I myself was thinking much the same thing with an attempt at a heavy and light division...

Seems like a possible easy fix by focusing on having sub units for CS and CSS units drawn from their end of the country even if you cant do most armored engineer roles in Vancouver for example.

Like I said it would appear that even though there has been consideration of a squadron of tanks for training as well as about 100 LAVs set aside as well bit no2 it would appear that all equipment is on the table to be pushed out to the field force with in house training going on at the unit...

Keep in mind there are currently 82 MBTs and those are all in play moving forward. A big thing that people don't seem to be mentioning here is that the housing and infrastructure for these vehicles is a big deal. We only have realistically space for 4 squadrons atm and that's split evenly...

A huge issue the chain seems to be ignorant of is the posting system messing up the workup cycle. Officers rolling into platoons and companies for less than the workup cycle has led many units to be on perpetual workup for years to get people their checks in the box while also never deploying...

5 Brigade usually runs trial courses for troops going on courses such as ARP and UO. This leads to a much better ratio of troops getting qualified compared to 1 CBMG or more specifically PPCLI which treats every course like selection, has half the troops fail at least, and then throws their...

I also haven't but everyone I have worked with has indicated that the area is not at all suitable to anything but dismounted operations. What usually happens is the LAVs act as battle taxis with the rest being left up to the troops as I'm told. Additionally, as much as everyone including myself...

Lol if only they knew how much of that 1.27% was real...

The quality of troops trained at St.Jean has become a huge issue. They freely admit to training troops as purple trades so many are not ready to complete training on a combat arms DP1

It would appear that this is more so the incremental companies associating with 2nd battalion despite it not being a full establishment. This is due to the 1st battalion being a SFA unit which requires far fewer troops then a regular battalion.

In my defense mortars have been an instrumental part of the infantry battalion for over 100 years now and the CAF can always handwave the lack of anti-tank at every level by pointing to the Carl G and M72s being employed in platoons. Ya know real tank killers/s