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Just to let you all know, we are not getting a Defence Policy Review or White Paper. What we will be getting, sometime, whenever, is a Defence Policy Statement. That's what it's called now. Don't ask me what that means because I just don't know.

Worn Out Grunt, the plans will be the same for both the Regular Force and Reserves. The difference being in the calculation of time between the "part time" time and the "full time" time...if you understand what I'm saying lol

It is still scheduled for implementation in December of this year. From what I understand, Treasury Board has accepted that it go back as far as, I think, 1985 but the pension staff are going to ask that it go back further to include the 1322 members that the 1985 cut off year discludes. I also...

Thanks GGBoy for your "insight"  ;). I, for one, am in the middle of writing to the Chronicle Herald as we speak (wirte). I am really so tired of him and his unsubstantiated and unfactual stories and the unfortunate part is that there are Canadians out there who view him to be a "military expert".

Now THIS article is nothing but a piece of trash written by someone who has an axe to grind with the CF. NO WHERE in the study does it ever say that women feel marginalized. It's a shame really that Mr. Taylor is allowed to sling his unsubstantiated trash in main stream media. This story is NOT...

And what part of the article do you want them to refute? From all the articles I read on this issue (aside from the piece from Scott Taylor that I read this morning) all the information came directly from the survey. So what exactly is it that you want DND to say about it? I just don't...

Well since respondents don't know the questions beforehand, and since this wasn't a survey that was specific to discrimination, I rather doubt that those who did respond did so because they had an axe to grind. But regardless of the low response rate, I do find the last two sentences in that...

Che, So long as those people are not Honouraries, since the Honouraries have a uniform and are appointed by the MND and, in effect, represent the units of which they are a part I don't see why not. Now that means you're going to have to find these people with a crap-load of money to blow away...

This is an interesting quote from the CROP survey that was completed in 2004... "CROP survey results suggest that soldiers tend to be traditionalists in regard to gender and minorities. In comparison to Canadian society, soldiers are less supportive of affirmative action for women and...

Having just come from a recruiting advertising conference the last two days, I can answer Enfield's question. The Treasury Board plays a HUGE role in CF advertising. In fact, it plays a huge role in advertising for any government department. I'm not going to get into it here because it's mind...

pbi: I doubt that you/we are ever going to find hard "facts" about lowered training standards. We all know it has happened and is happening in order to satisfy the government officials overseeing gender equality. But to find it actually written down or stated somewhere....I don't think we'll...

The pay raises are not being held back. We all get our pay raise on 1 April. What is being delayed is the retroactive amounts due.

LOL I know. Go figure. As soon as I make my post I go over there only to find out it's not working.

Thanks for posting this Brad. I just saw this. Sorry I didn't get a chance to post this myself but  I haven't been around. I've been wrapped up in the CLS change of command and another priority. I want to get the ball rolling on that forum again and so after doing all my catch up work tomorrow...

Although this is just an article and nothing is engraved in stone, if what they are saying about the Army being elevated to the senior service position is true, all I can say is "WOW"  :o

Whatever happened to the 6 month Personnel Development Review (PDR) which everyone is suppose to get in order to review their performance and improve in areas that may need improving before the PER is written? Has it gone by the wayside? And if it has, why am I staring at mine right now? (albeit...

I tried to help someone do this about a year and a half ago and it seemed to spin everyone into a tizzy that someone would want to give up their commission. The long and the short of it is, "they" (NDHQ) couldn't figure out how to do it. That may have changed since then. I don't know. My friend...

Sorry. You'll have to be a bit more specific with your question. Do you want to know financial, equipment or personnel resources? Or all of the above? I can probably dig that information up for you but I won't be able to do so until the new year as I start my leave in just a few hours from now...

To get back on topic here, the Army is currently undergoing regeneration. Obviously, not being able to copy and paste the entire 300 some-odd page regeneration document here, I'll attempt to pull out the parts that are pertinent to this discussion and the Army Reserve. Here it goes: The Army...

Ah. I didn't know this. Well, it's been a good 10 or so years since I've been with the Argylls and at that time the Argylls were predominately high school teachers and the RHLI were the cops. Yes, the former CO of the RHLI is a police officer. So I stand corrected. You will be able to network...