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I quote "No actions by DLR, DSSPM or contractor will ever cause a delay. Never have. Never will." lol Maybe we should just do away with badges....

Project has slipped a year to the right according to Sharepoint. Delivery is now 2028, even though design was completed mid-2025 and about 6 months ago projected rollout was end 2026. The new combat uniform has also slipped a year to the right, so delivery is 2029.

I'll keep an eye out for it then, although I may end up buying both. I've 'acquired' enough books from OceansofPDF over the last year, I sort of owe authors around the world some of my business.

In your opinion, would altering 294 into something that can be a service offence or infraction be beneficial then? I don't know of a single officer or SNCO who has the bandwidth on top of their career + Class A service to get the ball rolling on charging 294 in civy court.

Thats all very interesting. But I still don't see how it works in relation to how I have always been told Class A service works. How can you be charged for not attending parade when you only serve when you consent to serve? Maybe @FJAG has the answer.

I was hoping you were going to jump in on this. How does 294 work with the nature of Class A service? How do you charge a Class A soldier for not attending as ordered when the whole concept of being class A is that you consent to when you serve? Also, would 294 have to go through a civilian...

I don't think in the current framework that this drill could be enforced. There are of course provisions for placing reservists on active service, but I don't think they would apply to training or readiness exercises, or at least would be very unpalatable politically. Although, we talked about...

A fragmenting plate won't punch through the kevlar in the soft armour of the frag vest. It could fragment up into the head and neck, but if youve been shot in the chest or back by 5.56 or 7.62, its punching right through that training plate and kevlar anyways and now you have a GSW. The solution...

The training plates are incredibly brittle and will shatter if dropped. At some point someone made the call to not shoot in them for fear of little ceramic shards being propelled upwards into the face and neck. However, this was never codified into an actual policy. Depending on your range staff...

They have a PAT Pl of about 25 according to that same slide deck. The problem with a unit that small, even though its tactically grouped with another, the PWOR, is when you are that small, you just can't run the courses to grow. Not enough NCOs. So the unit gets stuck in a loop of creating 2-6...

Nah. There are already multiple units in every major city that are well below doctrinal strength. It's far easier to just expand the existing ones than pull units off the Supp Orbat. The Brockville Rifles for example have a Trained Effective Strength of 36 according to a slide deck from September.

But Scottish isn't a religion, Sikhism is. How do you have a religious regiment in a country that is supposed to be secular? How do you have a religious regiment that doesn't expect or only allow its members to be practitioners of that religion? Why are we targeting 1 million Canadian Sikhs with...

But how does this work in practice? There are a million Sikhs in Canada, so we stand up a Sikh regiment. Can only Sikhs be a part of this regiment? Does that mean we will stand up a Christian regiment, a Muslim regiment, a Jewish regiment, and an atheist regiment? If I join the Sikh regiment as...

Yea, that's my bad. I've talked to reps from both in the last months and mixed up my acronyms.

No. There are existing units in every major city. It is way more work to create an entirely new regiment than to just authorize the expansion of an existing one. In the next 5 years, we can expect to see most PRes units authorized to increase their establishments to their doctrinal orbats.

That is why ADM(IE) and DLR have initiated an Army Reserve Infrastructure review and are looking to begin constructing/purchasing new facilities as early as FY 26/27. Yes. A CARB building will be built around the entitlements set out in those documents. 10 m2 office space for the CO, 4.5m 2...

Infrastructure for the reserves is guided by a policy called the Army Reserves Scale of Accomodation, which details how much training space/classrooms/etc a reserve establishment is entitled to. This combined with the Army Reserve Establishment and the workplace 2.0 office guidelines will...

That's why we can't put our hands in our pockets. Pockets are for magazines, not hands.

About once a week, usually Friday afternoons, I check sharepoint for updates to the various projects I am interested in. Last I saw on SD roll-out was like 2 weeks ago. There's a slide deck for the Canadian Army Dress and Ceremonial Committee that met at the end of November that said rollout...

I look forward to seeing the data in a year. Did more troops make it to their DP1/RQ than other cohorts who did not do this course? How were they employed in their formations while waiting? It will be an interesting read.