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Rather like the way we prioritize things i.e. this item is priority 1, and this item is...well, it's priority 1 as well, and so's this one...and this one, well it's not quite priority 1, but it's pretty close, so let's call it priority 1a....

Particularly scary since the US Assistant Secretary of State said that North Korea "could have nuclear weapons, or a future, but not both".

Ah, yes...another good one, with the same basic message.

Ah...my bad.  I thought there was some uncertainty around what the name was, not that we're looking for a better one.

The term being used is "Territorial Defence Battalion".  They're still a work-in-progress.

You've already received good advice; I'd only add/emphasize a couple of things: -focus on being a leader.  While there's nothing wrong with pitching in and getting your hands dirty if the situation demands it, your job is to stand back, maintain "situational awareness" (a fancy way of saying...

There's absolutely no point trying to make sense of nonsense.

And, of course: "If it ain't rainin', it ain't trainin.'"

As a young Private, I remember wanting to salute everything and call everyone sir, because all these different ranks only seemed to have one thing in common--they were all higher than mine.  I'll never forget what a Sergeant commanding another recruit section said when I called him "sir"...

I might be willing to trust him...if it wasn't for those sunglasses.  What's up with that, anyway?

I thought the sub-plot about suicide bombing was veeeery interesting.  I won't give any spoilers, but the writers did a good job of exploring the whole issue.

The really neat thing about conspiracy theories is that if you question or deny them, it just means that "they've gotten to you, too".

Sheesh, I wish you'd stop being so coy and oblique, and just come out say what you mean. (yes, there should be a smiley after that line, but I really hate the damned things) I think you're right.  We have to get the inf bns up to strength--and keep them--there as our main effort.  That's a...

It took me a while, but I finally found the passage I was looking for.  This is from the funeral oration of Pericles, over Athenian soldiers who had died in one of the opening battles of the Peloponnesian War.  I'd run across it some years go, in a very different context.  It's 2500 years old...

Some very interesting discussion here.  And I appreciate the extent to which some of the previous points have been clarified.  I find it difficult to disagree with much of what's been said; what it really comes down to is a lack of clarity in what we want our Res F to actually do and be.  The...

Blunt is good, and I'd expect no less from an infanteer. Thanks for the reasoned reply.  Actually, I really don't disagree with much of what you say, except maybe regarding the reserve/militia distinction.  I think our "militia" has actually taken on many of the attributes of a "reserve" (using...

No disagreement.  I think the US experience with job protection legislation is something we need to study very closely.  In solving one set of problems, it creates a whole new set. I don't really disagree with this, either.  There is, by fundamental definition, no way a Reservist is going to...

Notwithstanding the fact you've warned us off as this being "flame bait", perhaps you could expand on this with something more substantial?  Are operations failing, or at least suffering, because of reliance on the Reserves?  Is there some systemic problem the use of Reserves has introduced...

Indeed.  Jeff was my Adjutant and Reg F support officer during my first year as CO of the Lake Sups.  A fine soldier, officer and man.  And his story is bang-on.  The Thunder Bay military community is small, but very proud, professional and tightly knit (of course, that's probably true for...

I don't for a moment believe he has much emotional energy invested in the well-being of the average Pakistani.  But that's not the point.  More to follow... And that's kinda my point.  To stay in power, he both HAS to play ball with the West AND appease his domestic opponents.  Hence my...