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You're sure assholes out of trade would make any better decisions? Case in point - is RCAF career management any better than the Army's because they have an HR occ for officers?

I'm sure we'd be much better off with the civilian bureaucrats that brought us Phoenix.

Have you seen the COAs and what they entail for deployment options? I don't recall a "2200 pers CMBG" as a COA. Is your assumption that at some point the Army Commander didn't say "hmm, the government is looking for options - let's do an estimate and present feasible options based on our...

So, "CAF is facing some short and long term issues, so doing operational things while these issues exist is bad." Is that what you are saying?

"In wartime" is a ridiculous caveat - it essentially says lawful commands are open to second guessing unless Parliament declares war. How would things work in every operation we've done since the Second World War? As well, who gets to define "morally correct" - the disgruntled guy? Is not "obey...

I love how the government announces an increased operational role for the Army in an important region and Army.ca churns out ten different ways to shit on it....

"What ever the hell it wants to the troops" is a straw man to support a facile argument.

Say you don't understand command and legal status of the military without saying you don't understand command and legal status of the military.

I don't doubt it. I'd be curious to see data on adverse reactions within the CAF (a relatively healthy cohort) and if this is substantially different than reactions in wider Canadian society and reactions to other mandated vaccines that most of these folks likely had no problem taking. Anyways...

How many?

I'm not sure that's the case. There are numerous pictures on the google of guys from both those units...with rifle slings.

Level 3 isn't "brigade level fire training." The training units did to get ready for Maple Guardian was the brigade training event. I don't think it is splitting hairs because I often see the quote that "the pre-deployment training was longer than the tour!" and use it as some sort of...

Yes, people showed up early, but it wasn't for "pre-deployment training." Most of those activities were normal in-year training activities that would have been done even without a deployment (PCF courses, etc). I recall actual pre-deployment training consisting of a Bde live fire training event...

You've summed up a good chunk of this thread....

Take note that nobody does six months of predeployment training now, nor did we in Afghanistan when we were actually fighting (the prep exercises were roughly 2 months). Also take note that your anecdote is for a short duration exercise. We've deployed elements on international exercises all...

Just as "war is too important to be left to the generals," justice is "too important to be left to the judges."

As has been noted here, a lot of the article was incorrect or misleading. We can give Mr Brewster a golf clap. A good twitter thread talking through the issue.

Has anyone else seen reporting that the cut down helmets are funning into issues in Ukraine due to frag injuries to the ear areas that used to have protection? I thought I saw this somewhere but wasn't sure.

Two issues at play here. How much ceremonial drill is universal (eg. should be taught at recruit training) and how much ceremonial drill should be retained by the CAF? As to the first issue, and for your first and second questions, off the top of my head I'm inclined to agree with Remius'...

I think you've described about 90% of the CAF....