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As an Army officer it almost pains me to say this but I have to agree that a better investment in the Canadian context would be in more ships. Our interests are better served in projecting power from our shores rather then meeting threats in the last 60km or so. The only possible area I could...

I'm all for this if I get to be a Battery Commander at the Halifax Citadel or Victoria guarding the harbours. Time to bring back the Garrison Artillery!

Isn't AJSO and CAFJOD DP 2? I'm pretty sure it is for Reg Force.

Loudership is a recognized method of leadership is it not?

Neither have I but that's no reason not to try and hunt one down right? If I can get tires on a CANEX plan, why can't I get an optic for a firearm? The 558 with a magnifier doesn't come cheap...

Does anyone know of a store that accepts the CANEX plan and sells EOTech? I know the CANEX has some ridiculous policy against firearms being financed through their plan but not sure if this applies to optics as well.

You are going to have to be way more specific. Reg Force? Reserve? What course? Suffice to say, if you haven't received a course loading message yet for a course that is starting essentially next week (most people are on leave or about to be) then you likely aren't going on it.

There was a plan to acquire HIMARS in the 2010 timeframe. Once Afghanistan ended though, it was shifted off to that infamous "horizon 3" which basically translates to me as never going to happen. It is a good system but comes with a fairly hefty ammo bill. Now that we are going back into...

It's interesting that on this extremely high tech munition, the point of failure was the relatively low tech explosive fill.

Especially given that Excalibur is fired high angle, a premature in the bore would be even more catastrophic then low angle. Glad they picked this up before we lost a gun det.

Or we just have 400 people on "TAVs"....

And while we are at it, 202 years ago. The war ended in 1814 and Washington was burned that year.

IIRC the British Regulars that were involved in that raid had come from the Peninsula and had never even set foot in British North America and there were no Fencibles or Incorporate Militia on that raid. But hey, sure, Wayne Gretzky, Celine Dion and Margaret Atwood burned down the White House.

Should it really have been though? The Canadian Corps of 1918 had been in nearly continuous action for 3 years at that point. Simmond's was too young to have served in the First World War and his only command experience in combat to that point had been in Sicily as a Div Comd from mid- July of...

Meyer's book is interesting and I note in this article that one of the fallacies that he perpetuated is repeated there. That, the 12th SS Division was reduced to "a Bn" by mid August of 1944. German records clearly discount this showing that he actually had a ration strength of about 12,000 at...

This thread title interested me in I thought it was maybe for the highlander...

I fill out a ton of minute sheets for 2088s. Usually they go something like this: "Sir, member injured himself while attending morning PT. He is currently employed as a vehicle tech in the B Shop. Speaking with the member, I expect that he will make a full recovery within a few weeks. Member...

The M777 conversion course is nothing sinister. Under Artillery Transformation, each gun Battery has two guns that are manned by PRes (on paper at least). The M777 conversion courses currently being run in 4 Div are simply to set the conditions for PRes pers to make up gun dets on the road to...

Well if it was not a 105mm then it was something that is out of service and there are hundreds of possabilites at that point. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

Did it look like this? http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/weapons/c3-105mm-howitzer.page or smaller?