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We need to accept the traits that our recruiting demographic has, rather than what we might wish they have. I mean, first off, those groups in said "traditional recruiting pools" do largely seem like a shrinking set. If the problem is that fewer and fewer people have learned to cope with...

I strongly disagree with this sentiment. The job is the glue the holds things together and makes us unique. We are the only organization in the country whose job is to go forth and do violence on behalf of the Government of Canada. Everything else falls out as a result of that, including any...

Any effort... on the part of DHH, which is their literal job. You could argue that they could otherwise be making better changes to other aspects of heritage and honours, but it's an entire organization whose purpose is doing these window dressing things. If you want to be instead making an...

... I didn't think I needed to do so, because those empires haven't significantly influenced Canadian military culture and traditions. You know; the Canadian Armed Forces being that thing that this site is devoted to talking about? I've got plenty of criticism for China and Russia, but they...

We can work on seperate things at the same time. Realistically the issue here is that the areas that you're expressing outrage about us not making progress on are largely things that are really hard to fix; or at least really hard to fix given the manner in which we handcuff ourselves based...

Pete, c'mon. Debate in good faith here. The fact that the French's colonial legacy is also a steaming pile of atrocities doesn't in any way shape or form make the Brit's colonial legacy any more palatable. It's the entire colonial system which was terrible, and there all the European powers...

Yeah. I get that they'd want to brag about it at the time. Hell, probably still do now because the Brits are frankly terrible about confronting their colonial legacy. That doesn't mean that we, as people living in the 21st century who have now recognized the innumerable harms caused by...

Historical facts aren't offensive. Celebrating them can be. Just like a wide variety of statue debates for figures from Robert E Lee to Sir John A, people don't learn history from statues and they don't learn it from Heart of Oak. What those things do is venerate the historical figures or...

There's two real categories of traditions. Official and unofficial. Some of the unofficial stuff may have been started from the top, but I'd say most is bottom up. The official stuff, by nature of the fact that it's got regulations or orders backing them up is usually top down, but may be...

I really don't agree with the notion that teenagers or folks in their early 20s are going to be any happier spending the first bit of their career marking time. Get them in and throw them into things ASAP; forge them into a tool and put them to use. Make their efforts and time meaningful...

That's not really a pay issue though. That's a "we're promoting the wrong people" issue. Not really; we don't have any massive security force needs going unfilled. The bulk of our physical security requirements are handled by Commissionaires, with armed responses if needed from MPs and the...

I'll buy that sometimes good leaders need to adapt their style to become more micromanaging. The problem isn't when people find themselves in charge of troops who need a more direct and detail focused approach. The problem is when you have people for whom that's the only leadership style they...

God I hate that motto. As for the SCRIT chasers, I think ultimately the issue is the fact that we're trying to evaluate how good of a leader someone happens to be, but only evaluating it from the top down, without ever checking in with the people actually being led. Was that person effective...

Yeah, it's been my experience that such characters, when you get a bit of booze in them, are also the direct cause of the bulk of our sexual misconduct crisis. Allowing low level misbehaviour to fester is exactly how we get people escalating to major issues. Proper corrective action taken at...

No, that's the demographic of the groups that we convince to join. Those that we're targeting and those that bite aren't the same thing.

The sole restrictions on tattoos are prohibiting: There's nothing else about style, placement, or type.

"Yeah, you wanna keep it at slightly"

If it was that simple, then people wouldn't fuck it up so much. Follow an order immediately no explanation is suitable for immediate-hazard situations only. And in those cases it should be reasonable because the people placed into said situations will have received proper training in advance...

You're making a "can" argument. I'm making a "should" argument. Just because someone can rely upon the fact that orders are orders and that they need to be followed doesn't make simply issuing orders without any explanation for why a reasonable way to lead people. I mean, seriously. The lowest...

The people I hear talking about racism and sexism in the CAF are those who have experienced it. THe goal isn't to have the same level of racism or sexism as the rest of the society. The goal is to eliminate it. This is absolutely something that needs substantial effort, but such efforts are very...