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Don't hide behind the policy.... those rules are circumvented quite often in the form of waivers. Fortunately, personnel are usually given the option to sign a waiver if they are still inside the 12 month period since they last deployed. I will not get into the specific numbers of waivers...

Nice work Tony....

My bad, and hopefully people understood what I meant by the examples I gave.

Exactly.... maybe the delay was all about making sure there was an effective plan in place.

It's not.... Aid to civil power is the responsibility of the Area in which the disaster happens ie, Toronto Blizzard = LFCA. If the Area responsible does not have the resources to deal with the situation, other Area's are then tasked to assist ie, Winnipeg Flood = LFWA, LFCA, & some of LFAA.

I use a Garmin Etrex Vista C (Color TFT Display). When combined with Mapsource Topo Canada, it is a very useful navigation aid. The Etrex Vista is still very user friendly and with 24MB of memory, I can store the entire Eastern Half of Ontario in Topo format. For my line of work it has allot...

IMO there is nothing you can bolt onto a LUVW sized vehicle to make it mine resistant from an ANTI-TANK mine threat. The reasons why the Nyala, Mamba and the Bison to some extent, are so effective against mine strikes is because of the shape of the hull. They also have a great deal more mass...

As stated.... Op Athena TFK Roto 3 from 2 CMBG Petawawa is OPRED and is on Predeployment Leave. Seems pretty solid that Roto 4 will be coming from here as well as my Sister Squadron is starting to nail together a TO&E. Nevertheless, there will be allot of shiney new cars on the streets of...

I don't consider it a contridiction. In our case I think it was pure good fortune rather than planning, that we had some key pers available. Although i'm not so sure we could have produced in 48hrs as designed. Lets just say there were some pretty surprised people, and troops were running all...

I would hope that we would treat a domestic situation with the Highest Priority and it should skip the Dart all together. It is the responsibility of the Area HQ to prepare an immediate response to aid to civil power for a situation that happens within its area. In your scenario, 2 CMBG would...

If you could only see the overall picture i'm setting with all my posts..... The Liberals tied our hands long ago.. Out.

Unfortunately, he just doesn't see it from our perspective.

When this all happened the entire Brigade group was on leave. It would have taken well over 48 hours just to get everyone back here from wherever they were. How would it have looked if the PM, on day one said "Send the dart", and there was no one here to deploy with it?? The Dart exists on...

The posters below you summed it up quite well.

Kirkhill.. interesting. With our military in the state that it is in, we can only ever hope to be reactive, instead of proactive like the US. As a closer to home thought (not the media point of view), my unit is still in the process of trying to identify who will be leaving, little own the...

The last quote's I heard in the media is that it will take these regions 15 years to recover.... Translation: There will be plenty of things for us to do for the 40 Day mandate. Almost 40% of the Dart is made up of members of my Unit, and i'd rather see us be deliberate and get it right then see...

Nope... But the Yanks have serious Airlift, and the Aussies are in close enough proximity to use C-130's as they were intended..... Keep doing your homework, and well your at it, take some time to think about how long it took the CF to respond to the Ice Storm and the Manitoba Floods.

We are not putting out a fire at your local Armouries or doing a road move to Meaford pal. It takes a great deal of diplomatic and military co-ordination to pull this off.  

No recce? There are allot of silly things we do, but sending out a Recce Party for an Op like this is essential. Think about it I havn't the time to break it all down right this minute, but I suspect that you are not very familiar with the Dart and its composition. You cannot take these Troops...

Off they go..... Members of the Advance Party from the 200+ DART contingent here in Petawawa are off to Trenton tommorrow. I don't care about the number of Herc's required, political appeasement, the cost, or anything else...... What pisses me off, is that more of my friends, some of whom got...