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    PRes - Promotion to Maj without AOC qual

    Oddly enough, even though the Regular Force will happily promote Army officers to Majors without AOC, the Army Reserve currently seems to be enforcing a mandatory AOC requirement for promotion to Major. Not sure where the reference for that is, nor what was the root of the idea that reservists...
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    Component Transfer from NWO to INTO while in Royal Military College. Should i VR and Reapply? need advice

    The vast majority of Naval IntOs work out of cubicles in Ottawa. There are some on the coasts, but it wouldn't be reasonable to expect the bulk of a career as a Naval IntO to be spent in Halifax. More like one or two postings.
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    No more uniforms in court

    Witness intimidation comes to mind.
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    ‘White nationalism’ a threat the Canadian Armed Forces aren’t equipped for: watchdog

    My own regiment has a bit of a history of serious criminality — but not much in the way of political activism. Criminal behaviour with a profit motive seems to be seen as much less threatening than extremist/violent political ideologies.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    Try to look unimportant, the Hunter/Killer Drones might be low on ammo!
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    CAF now re-open to Permanent Residents

    That’s the next step isn’t it? Permanent residents are already quite far along on a path to citizenship, so enrolling them expands the potential recruiting pool, but not drastically. But enrolling non-residents or those on tourist visas? Potential game changer.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    Wait until self-propelled anti-aircraft guns make their big comeback in the counter-UAS role. They’ll be throwing up ordnance all over the sky at drones, helicopters, geese, unusual looking clouds…
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    Reconstitution

    The Legion seems to be firmly dying as a veterans’ organization. It may have a future as a social organization, but that remains to be seen. In the last 10 years I have seen a bit of an uptick in participation in various regimental/branch associations from veterans of ‘my’ generation...
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    Reconstitution

    How did we guard the nuclear weapons back in the day? Was it an MP role, or did the US provide the force protection along with the USAF Ordnance detachments?
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    Reconstitution

    But are they moving in large enough numbers to matter? The 2021 Census was a snapshot after over a year of pandemic, and it talks about the same trends — rural depopulation and growth in cities — that we’ve been seeing for decades. If people were actually cashing out their houses in the GTA and...
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    Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Overwhelming artillery requires overwhelming supplies of ammo. Since the Soviet rail network existed, but was less than impressive, and horses don’t exactly cut it — I sometimes wonder how much of the famed Soviet Operational Art 1943-1945 was entirely reliant on lend lease trucks from Detroit —...
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    Unrest in Haiti, Again

    MIF-H (Op HALO, Haiti, 2004) was not a blue helmet mission. The follow on, Brazilian-led, force was UN, but the US/French/Chilean/Canadian intervention was not a UN mission. In many ways, it felt like a NEO that sort of decided to hang around after the evac was done. Somewhere between trying to...
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    Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]

    That’s what everybody’s been dancing around, isn’t it? The incompetence of the City of Ottawa (specifically probably the Mayor and definitely the OPS Police Chief) and a Province of Ontario perfectly willing to let the situation play out as they had the city to blame and weren’t going to pay a...
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    Reconstitution

    Our public, that doesn’t really care, still throws the military about $22 Billion a year out of their taxes. Can‘t our integral leadership, that are specially selected and expensively trained, find some way to build some kind of combat capability within those assigned resources? I mean, we are...
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    Reconstitution

    Plenty. I’m a former USS, and I’ve witnessed more investigations, infractions and data spills than I can count. Some of it is accidental, but some of it, a lot of it, is that certain of my peers and superiors lack enthusiasm about security — and they see there are no/minimal consequences.
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    Reconstitution

    I’m a big fan of remote work. There are certain people of my acquaintance that we should absolutely keep as far away as possible from classified material and from the troops.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    I’m on board with that — it’s the current incarnation of CFLRS that I have issues with. Once we have sent all the recruits out to their trade schools, and all the officer cadets over to a new CFOCS on the current grounds of RMC Kingston, I think that the Mega would be a fine home for Joint ISR...
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    I fully agree about the value of one station training. As it stands now, a soldier needs 2 or 3 courses to become DP1 qualified and sent to their first job — and the various army and joint training authorities seem to lack the ability to synchronize that training, leading to our most valuable...
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    You’d be getting there. You’d have more firepower than a comparable British armoured brigade, but less protection, so you’d probably get the job done with higher casualties.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    Yes — because you‘d be missing self propelled artillery. Mortars are critical, but they supplement, not replace, proper tube and rocket artillery.
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