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Those ratios are very interesting (particularly the officer ones) but I would assert that the rough calculations still hide a lot of waste.  There are a lot of NCM MOSIDs where members can be taken to OFP in 6 months if they complete their courses back to back. Also, that officer BTL bill is...

Absolutely.  I am less concerned about the ratios than the capabilities they deliver relative to their total personnel resources which is why I dived fairly deep into a comparison of the Army managed readiness plans in both forces.  That said, the large number untrained RegF personnel is...

I would still assert that they maintain a more robust capability set with significantly fewer people which merits some thought for our own posture.  That said, let's do a quick comparison of the full time component:  Canadian Army:22,800 RCN:8,500 RCAF:14,500 Other Commands: 22,200 Total...

It is definitely a "tool in the toolbox" scenario. The mobility, firepower and protection tradeoffs are significant, and to George's point, there are a lot of advantages in the quantity afforded by cheaper, lighter and simpler vehicle options.  It appears that the problems that we had with...

Very true.  In the reserve world, we have an annoying habit of tolerating no gaps at the top of the hierarchy but enormous gaps at the bottom, so we are constantly promoting our best people which takes them away from the activities that matter (ie training soldiers).  At the LCol and CWO level...

With regards to evolving vehicles to counter the IED threat, all I would offer for consideration is that while these evolutions were quite costly and time consuming for us, the enemy counters were generally cheap and easy.  I'm not advocating any kind of long term refit for the Coyote or...

That assumes that the "innovation" is towards a higher tech solution.  Your example is kind of an edge case.  Most of the the evolution in IED techniques in Afghanistan went the other way (simpler and bigger), defeating our technology and our armor.  We are better off to focus on tactics that...

I would assert that this issue is more TOS driven.  The CAF needs a lot more officers at the bottom of the pyramid than at the top, but we let pretty much everyone stay to CRA.  Most other armies employ "up or out" (in the case of the Americans), or fixed career lengths (in the case of the...

I'm sure the cost of postings is a factor, and I have heard anecdotally that members move around less in the ADF.  With regards to the cost savings of consolidating aircraft by type, I would imagine that an operational imperative in the CAF driving up a cost (in this case two widely separated...

Now, I would obviously love to see both funding and personnel growth within the CAF, but sometimes I wonder what we would do with additional resources if we got them.  There are some macro comparisons that are a bit troubling.  Now, I think that it can be fairly reasonably argued the ADF...

To say that the PLQ (Army) field content is not relevant or cost effective reflects a very narrow view of the competencies the Army expects of its leaders.  Honestly, I (and I don't think I am alone here) want every Army NCO to have some "fight" in them which entails a basic ability to grab...

This is not correct.  CFRG has a mandate for and funding to conduct PRes applicant processing.  If anyone tells you it is done on a "space available" basis, it is simply not true.  What is true is that PRes recruiting is low the CFRG priority list, with ROTP being the top priority. You are...

Agreed WRT buttons and bows...so many fail to recognize the non-recoverable opportunity cost of staff effort.  It is enough to make you want to cry. :crybaby: Perhaps CADTC has some culpability WRT keeping up with the planning process, but I would be curious about the actual extent of the Army...

And what would be the implications of waiting?  The Air Force and the Navy do CF PLQ, just like before. The only service for whom this change has any implication is the Army, and the effect of rolling it out in this way has created a not-insignificant hole in our leadership development process. 

Respectfully, I disagree.  The delivery of of the Army junior leadership course (in whatever form it may have taken) was not just about assessing leadership skills.  Just like BMQ-A and BMOQ-A, it is also intended to ingrain a "soldier first" ethos across all trades, and ensure that all...

Either way, this should be sync'd up with the services.  No one should be rolling out a new course which impacts on all of the services without a clearly articulated way ahead with regards to the implementation in each service.  Now we have Army NCMs thinking that they will become qualified...

Are Navy pers in Navy "billets" taking Army PLQ?  If so, that wouldn't seem to make much sense, but as far as I was aware CAF PLQ doesn't have a field phase. With regards to a navy specific PLQ, perhaps there is a cost component with regards to putting non-hard sea trades through those type of...

This is becoming a real problem.  We need some focus and predictability to be built into the planning cycle.  The current model of scrambling to fill every last minute CFTPO task is really not setting up reserve force pers for success, resulting in unsatisfactory conditions for both the member...

Correct me if I wrong, but wasn't there both DRDC and RSM net direct design input into the design of the load carriage system? Perhaps a better way of saying it would be to draft an SOR that emphasizes the desirability of mature, widely used products, rather than designed from the ground up...

While that is a great point, I was more referring to the idea that when we buy an item off the shelf (particularly if it is a somewhat mature product) it has already been subject to iterative cycles of product improvements based off of the feedback of other end users. When we pursue our own...