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Fair enough, I have spent enough tine in damage school learning about the lessons from the RN in the Falklands. My point was more about the reality the CAF faces. As a single service, the base standard needs to be applicable to all three elements, not just the light infantry. I'd love to see...

Makes sense for the army... How did the RN and RAF fitness tests change after the war? It might be hard for this particular forum to understand, but the CAF is more than infantry. Does making a maintainer ruck longer and harder make techs better, or does it make army centric thinker believe...

100% You'd get people to sign-up for a local "civil defence" group much faster than you would for a national one. The Average Islander or Albertan doesn't care about the issues the other is facing.

I can point ot lots of fit people who are toxic and useless, but they aren't that way because they cut a fine figure in their DEUs. I never said fitness wasn't important, just that it isn't as important as some of you pretend. The PRO fire highlighted a lot of issues, fitness was way down at...

I'm more inclined to think that it's a case of more experienced people swooping in and taking the "entry level" jobs. If I was an employer, I'd take a 24 year old with rent to pay over a 19 year old living at home and going to school.

As pointed ut by @dapaterson, the test exists to show people meet the minimum standard to serve. Nobody thinks that the person struggling to pass the FORCE test is "fit", just that they meet the minimum standard. So, the real issue wasn't that they were unfit, it was that the person was a POS...

So you watched someone pass the test, but still wanted them removed? The increased number of failures of the FORCE test when it was initially released kinda indicates that the standard was raised for some. I watched people who "exempted" the EXPRES test struggle and fail the BFT, and watched...

I'm not so sure. Esquimalt switched to NCD for daily wear ashore as well, and it isn't because a few soldiers on base would be in CADPAT. So what exactly would that look like, that isn't a copy of someone else's uniform? There is nothing wrong with a uniform that reflects our history, made in...

The CAF is different and does things differently for a few reasons. 1. The CAF wants to generate interest, so they post a lot of routine things. Nobody wants to watch Day & Ross trial a new system, but lots of people want to see the CAF do basic things. 2. The CAF has procurement processes...

So, in an age of mass travel, and migration, how do you propose a nation actually do that? It was a lot easier when crossing the oceans took a month, and the people coming were all from the same cultural backgrounds.

The problem is, China is an open declaration of economic warfare. It is the way to accelerate your fears, without giving us time to find alternate trading partners. We relied too much, for too long, on good relations with America. Now we need to slowly expand our trade to other, less...

So, for less than 1% of our GDP you want to declare full scale economic war on our largest trading partner, and the world's largest economy? I'll proudly stick to pragmatism over knee-jerk "patriotism" on this one.

What is the obsession with building cars here? If America wants to back out of our auto deal, we can shop elsewhere (not China) for a deal, or just make parts and import cars like most other countries. Going full China on America with cars will guarantee that they will be out to destroy our...

We aren't beggars, and we can always choose to not give more money to China, so they can come up with better ways to kill us.

I'd rather we ask our friends than let in an adversary.

Or... maybe reach out to Europe. The people we don't expect to at war with in the next decade or so...

I suspect it's because if the RCN allowed him to make a random job in San Fran for himself, so he could stay in, they'd have to allow others to do the same.

I think it's far too early to be making declarations like that. Things may have shifted for now, but Canadians are quite adept at ignoring the dangers of the world. We shouldn't pretend past behaviours are not an indicator of future ones. Acting like this shift is permeant right now comes...

I'm late to the party, but it was the French Empire. Then they lost, because supporting an armed revolt inside your enemy's borders can sometimes come back to bite you.

The RCN has switched away from No 3s for shore units in Esquimalt as well, so I suspect there is more than just the CA's DEU shortages at play. I wore No 4 "Work Dress" for the first few years I was in. It was dropped to simplify our orders of dress, and because it didn't look "military"...