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What happens now is that we try to encourage everyone to be a lifer, rather than encourage as many Canadians to join the Armed Forces for an initial engagement as possible. Any service is valuable to the nation. Further - it is natural for the rank pyramid to thin out as time goes on.

I don't think this is a necessary equivalency. Gen Maisonneuve is correct about his assessment, obviously, but we don't need to utterly gut our services to afford a much better military and have a comprehensive foreign policy. This is all within reach of the government, if it chose to do it...

CJOC does it in 1A, with ideally a Director General issuing the honours and awards in a public (ish) place.

I, like many others before me, have had the privilege of wearing high collared scarlets with a Wolseley helmet and found that for parades in hot months, it did a great deal to make the heat bearable. The helmet in particular shielded nearly the entirety of my face from the sun, whilst allowing...

For those asking why, and I believe it has been already said here, a new DEU is being procured because the awful 65 %wool / 35% polyester 1970s leisure suit blend that we used to use is no longer manufactured by industry; thus, we have many troops who cannot replace old DEU items or get DEUs at...

One or two degrees tilted up at a time, year by year.

I honestly thought we were going to get skewered much harder than we did, but there's no denying that the 'economic increase' and CFHD are policies made by a combination of bureaucrats and politicians who are apathetic, or perhaps mildly hostile to us and our institution but wanted general and...

We take neither drill and ceremony nor combat forces seriously. Both have been on the decline for quite some time. Fortunately, for things such as Quarter Guards, the drill is quite simple. If you teach recruits to do basic rifle drill (present, shoulder etc...) they can do a Quarter Guard...

Something about the colour of the boat shed.

I certainly don't think that everyone needs to hit gold. I would simply advocate for chains of command to prioritise fitness more than they currently are. In an office environment, I have discovered that PT is often an afterthought, instead of a core part of the day that everyone does. I have...

If you think that being told 'don't get old because you might not like being attacked by the youth' was an attack on you, I'm not sure what to say. I think that you miscalculated. We have failed to recruit and retain because we have alienated the core demographic of the military - driving...

Recruitment for western militaries is down generally for a variety of factors. A big factor is that they have given up on advocating for their unique military cultures and 'gone with the flow'. Organisations that have not done so as much - the USMC is a grand example, as it retains much of its...

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The same argument that indicates that it needs continue evolving can be used in the reverse, because it is entirely subjective. I am honest that I am subjective. I will add one more thing - modern society has completely lost any sense of aesthetics. Older forms of head dress are more aesthetic...

Everything is subjective. The beret is a 'business casual' type of head dress, which can be worn down into work dress (as it was originally intended) and up to 3B. The baseball cap is a sub-casual form of dress. You do not attend a professional work environment wearing it - unless your...

The Army should be sprinting in the opposite direction of this informal rubbish. Undress headress (service / forage caps) for DEU, and re-inforcing of beret as normal working headdress in garrison. I am, however, also a realist, and I know that the trend is for our military to look ever more...

A significant amount of Canadian soldiers, sailors and airmen live in locations with over-inflated markets. These markets have, furthermore, become more and more the natural baseline for our country. I am deeply sceptical that any of these markets are going to deflate in any serious manner, but...

The only reason I was able to buy a house was because I went on repeated, back to back tours over a very short period of time. If you think a little bit of elbow grease and cutting back some luxuries (such as occasional eating out as a family) will grant enough money to buy a house in the 2020s...

I can’t be the only one here who thinks that this look is absolutely dreadful for a ceremonial uniform at an important national monument.

The Army service dress should go at least some way in making soldiers look smart and, well, military… providing that it is well delivered.