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This Billie Flynn? Why waste time with his post when I can just go to the LM page directly to get the marketing?

I'm not suggesting clerks can't be/aren't great soldiers/sailors/airhumans, I'm simply suggesting that rather than beat our heads against the wall to find ways to fill the empty uniformed HRA/FSA positions for the reserves, maybe create part-time civilian positions. We have lots of civilians...

It looked like she panicked when they tried to pull her out, and that lead to the shooting.

I agree 100% with the bolded part. Some tasks don't need to be done by uniformed pers, particularly in small sections where there is little to no room for career development/advancement. A part-time civilian position with reasonable pay could likely attract someone looking to make a few extra...

There is no perfect system. If you mobilize a battalion someone somewhere is losing a person. Who's to say mobilization won't exclude Mr. Bloggins' job from being called-up. It happened the only times we even mobilized before, there is no reason to not think it would happen again in the future...

If we are being honest with ourselves though, even the people who like those jobs on average like them as a way to pay the bills, not as a passion or pastime. How do you convince a truck drivers to drive army trucks the army way, on their time off from driving trucks in the real world? How do...

In DND it seems most "clerks" are AS rather than CR, likely for the same reason.

Do we think that Russia is ready to openly kill US service members? That would be quite an escalation...

I haven't found it hard to get a phone, just need the boss to sign-off on you needing it for work. Much of the business being conducted on personal devices is done out of convenience, not necessity. I suspect that is often the case with businesses and politicians as well.

That depends. Going from Mr. Blogins to Cpl/MCpl Blogins on day one of mobilization has benefits too, even if Cpl/MCpl Blogins keeps working at the same base. Mobilization doesn't mean everybody is out the door overseas on day 1, lots of mobilized people will be turned into instructors in Canada.

I suspect there are different tiers of lists from watch all the way from "watch" to "make disappear day one". I know which list I prefer being on lol.

I suspect it's more about handing the NSA a list of people who have stated openly that they will be troublemakers...

The rhetoric from the White House essentially makes that impossible. Overt hostility might be fine in private negotiations at the corporate level, but it doesn't work in international politics.

Kind of like calling others bigots, racists, and Nazis has negative effects on civil discourse, and might lead to negative consequences like shooting people publicly...

I was under the impression it was 2% by end of FY, which was always pretty unrealistic given the rules around procurement.

Credit where credit is due, she is doing the right thing by stepping down. She clearly cares about Ukraine, and wants to help.

All valid points, but the construction itself wasn't done over a lifetime, which was my key point. There is always more to the reality than the myth, but the myth still contains truth. I brought it up as an example of a section of Trans-Canada highway twinning through somewhat difficult...

New Veterans Charter.

My point isnt so much that it needs to be torn down, it's more that once the idea to change it comes up, there is strong potential for a very handy programme to become a gong show like the NVC. People looking to save money, and make "improvements" will create new issues. There are other ways...

That would require a complete teardown, and rebuild... We saw how that went with the New Veterans Charter. There are other ways to incentivize the behaviors we want, that don't require tearing down a major benefit for CAF members.