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That is exactly my point.  I was responding to the comments from several posters implying that large numbers of people would join the U.S. military to fund their assignment surgery, spending their entire (short) careers in the U.S. military as MIR commandos.  In the context of an 8 year service...

As I understand it, U.S. military pers incur a minimum of an 8 year service obligation (including Reserve, Guard and IRR time).  It seems like a significant obligation to undertake if you are not actually willing to serve. 

It is clearly more than the expectation that the vehicles be used "in anger".  We have an arms export control regime in place precisely to keep weapons out of the hands of states with a history of human rights abuses, and this specific concern was raised throughout the approval process.  Now, we...

Generally speaking, settlements in civil litigation cases are kept private, and neither party is supposed to talk about it.  Keep in mind that apart from the apology (which was inherently public), most of what we know about the details of the settlement was based on leaks.  As far as I know, no...

Canada was compensating Afghan nationals for a variety of damages resulting from Canadian Forces activity such as vehicle accidents, damaged crops, etc.  This was a big part of the BG LEGAD's job on my deployments.  A number of "Ex Gratia" payments were also made to the families of Afghan...

I threw that number out in this thread some time ago based on the following: http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/about-reports-pubs-report-plan-priorities/2014-reserve-force.page Unfortunately, FY14/15 was the only year the cost capture was done in this way that I have seen, but I think it reasonable...

I agree with you, but that commitment has to go both ways.  Last minute course/task cancellations, and/or date changes are increasingly becoming the norm these days, and we shouldn't be surprised when that impacts on the member's availability.  When the Army's commitment to a member is...

If they mean full summers of employment, that would be a significant improvement.  In the current training model, we are only offering a few weeks of full time training.  For example, we might offer a member a 4 week BMQ or a 7 week Infmn DP1, but rarely will we offer those courses consecutively...

Civilian contracted buses that is :)...Yep, I am referring to the PRes Canadian Brigade Groups (CBGs) and opposed to the RegF Canadian Mechanized Brigade Groups (CMBGs).  I draw attention to that because those CBG Comds are the highest command appointment held by the PRes members.  There some...

Agreed.  To provide a bit of context as the overall cost of the reserve force has been talked around in this thread, a fairly comprehensive estimate of the cost of the reserve force for FY 13/14 can be found here...

I think we're in violent agreement on both the history and the contemporary considerations. 

Some reservists (myself included) completed a year of high readiness training prior to deployment of Afg.  We're not going to find an Oxford definition of a "citizen soldier".  We're all citizens.  However, I still think it useful to differentiate the professional force (those who will spend...

There were definitely some nuances missed in the article, and I would agree that the approach is unnecessarily confrontational.  However, there is a very valid underlying truth in what she is saying which I and many others have raised in this thread before, and articulated in great detail...

The numbers I provided in my article (insert shameless self-promotion caveat here) on Reserve Infantry Officer training in the Infantry Bulletin on junior officers health in PRes infantry units generally is from an official source, as at the date I specified.  That article is accessible at...

There are lots of good reasons for a re-alignment.  While trying to avoid turning this into the PRes roles and missions thread, I have always thought that it would be possible to re-align the structure while keeping the hat badges and traditions, but when every change initiative starts with the...

I have heard that number quoted before, and while not completely off the mark, I haven't seen it anywhere officially.  I can tell you that purely on the basis of the officers my unit has sent (to say nothing of the other 54 PRes Infantry units), it would have to be more than 1%.  I would say...

A few things, and this is definitely a moving target.  I calculated a lot of these numbers when researching this article for the Infantry Bulletin: (http://www.ducimus.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Infantry-Corps-Newsletter-Volume-2-Issue-2-final.pdf), and some things have changed since then...

To further muddy the waters, I was told by my French Army course DS that the Paris fire service is a unit of the French Army.  Really interesting historical precedent around that, but quite separate from what most states would consider to be part of their national security apparatus.

Amen.  All I would note is that the PRes costs overall are very inexpensive and quite stable at around 1 Billion CAD/year which includes RSS, equipment, base support, etc..  It is the overall defence budget overall which grew so rapidly in the 2000s with virtually no readiness improvements, and...

I don't think anyone is disputing the fact that high readiness tasks (there are some exceptions such as TBGs for DOMOPS) are principally the domain of the Regular Force. That said, even reservists can be pushed out the door fairly quickly (within a day or two), especially for DOMOPS. WRT Class...