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Oh?  And when will this be?

This is one time where I do agree with an "us and them" approach.  As DP points out, there are certainly differences between living standards/risk within the TF. However, the good LCol in the article is correct:  everything hinges on implementation and on tracking - mechanisms that are well...

Weapons "mods" are NOT authorized unless performed by a Wpns Tech against a validated CF-mandated mod programme.  Anyone who tells you different is BSing in a big way, despite what "may have happened" in theatre from time to time.  I'm sure a maintainer will be along to enlighten everyone soon...

Let's hope so - they have an enormous PR problem on their hands (this has hit CNN) and, if some of the other Digg videos are accurate (note "if"), there is a significant discipline problem across the board as well. Edit to add CNN story on these dumbasses here: ...

Caveat:  I cannot open video links from my current location and have not/will not watch the subject clip. With that in mind, I find the massive list of linked videos on Digg extremely disturbing.  If the captions are even 50% correct, there is a massive problem at hand here.  So what?  We get...

As much as I like the old system and as much as I acknowledge that it is almost universally recognized as the "standard" international Army system, this isn't going to fly for a variety of reasons. Reserve units wear the old system simply because they've been grandfathered.  As far as I know...

Hey, if someone somewhere is willing to buy a sexy new vehicle, then I'm all for it provided there is, as MCG pointed out, a coherent plan and a valid operational requirement.  Thus far, there is no evidence of either behind Puma or CV90.  As for this "loan" from the Swedes, who knows?  It...

Lemme see....  No capital project, no noise on the armour net, no potential or articulated requirement, no place in the strategic structural plan, no articulated operational shortfall, no place in future manning requirements... The source for CV90s is one line in the Swedish defence budget (21...

30 Sep 98 is when the reference came out. Aside from the CANFORGEN noted above (which is hardly new information - similar warnings have come out from time to time), there is no "Facebook" message and nothing published that pertains to Facebook.   And before someone posts an e-mail that states...

::)  I can't see us getting either.

I didn't see this posted, but thought it of some interest.  Prince Harry has been deployed to Helmand for the past 10 weeks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/7269743.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7269775.stm http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/02/28/harry-afghanistan.html It...

We're the Army that has retained in service 50+ year old guns (albeit refurbished ones).  We're not about to chuck out guns purchased less than three years ago because they've deployed on operations.

Ah yep...  For instance, I was one of the main planners for election security support for the Presidential Election in late 2004...  The election had its problems, but was judged fair by most impartial observers.  The International Community went to enormous lengths to insure impartiality and...

I think that's definitely the way ahead.  He listens to BTDT guys and this almost has to be put forward as an idea that has the support of a pretty wide constituency, not just a bunch of harumphing staff officers (of which I am one now).

+1  We don't want to over complicate this.  The idea is to replace rifle green with khaki, with some small modifications to fabric and "matching" rank identifiers, not revise the entire dress system.  Shoes, hats and the like would remain the same. Infanteer has posted the way ahead I was...

Ya know, I'm loathe to comment on foreign domestic politics.  Canadians who say "I wish I were American so that I could vote for XXX" always grate on me.  I have nothing to offer as to who would be the better president - Democrat or Republican, black, white, male or female. However, I'll offer...

Without getting into it, operational equipment money comes from a different pile...  DEU "development" (which should be practically zero in this case) shouldn't impact on operational equipment purchases.

I should point out that it's even less than that, depending on how you look at it.  The Royal Victorian Order (in all its four guises) is awarded (according to the Gov Gen's website) for personal service to the Soveriegn.  Hence, it is linked directly to the Royal Family, rather than the British...

If this idea has any hope of succeeding, it needs to be disconnected from any other ideas regarding changes to the rank system, etc..  I have enormous sympathy for wearing stars and crowns.  It follows a rank system that exists in a huge array of armies - not all of them of British - and is...

Yeah, if it wasn't CF enough (ie: too "old-Army"), the bureaucracy would shoot any initiative down in a heartbeat.  It has to reflect heritage and the new reality - much as the Air Force did with their blue DEU. Unfortunately, staffing a new uniform is a Byzantine maze of bureaucrats and...