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That’s the next step isn’t it? Permanent residents are already quite far along on a path to citizenship, so enrolling them expands the potential recruiting pool, but not drastically. But enrolling non-residents or those on tourist visas? Potential game changer.

Wait until self-propelled anti-aircraft guns make their big comeback in the counter-UAS role. They’ll be throwing up ordnance all over the sky at drones, helicopters, geese, unusual looking clouds…

The Legion seems to be firmly dying as a veterans’ organization. It may have a future as a social organization, but that remains to be seen. In the last 10 years I have seen a bit of an uptick in participation in various regimental/branch associations from veterans of ‘my’ generation...

How did we guard the nuclear weapons back in the day? Was it an MP role, or did the US provide the force protection along with the USAF Ordnance detachments?

But are they moving in large enough numbers to matter? The 2021 Census was a snapshot after over a year of pandemic, and it talks about the same trends — rural depopulation and growth in cities — that we’ve been seeing for decades. If people were actually cashing out their houses in the GTA and...

Overwhelming artillery requires overwhelming supplies of ammo. Since the Soviet rail network existed, but was less than impressive, and horses don’t exactly cut it — I sometimes wonder how much of the famed Soviet Operational Art 1943-1945 was entirely reliant on lend lease trucks from Detroit —...

MIF-H (Op HALO, Haiti, 2004) was not a blue helmet mission. The follow on, Brazilian-led, force was UN, but the US/French/Chilean/Canadian intervention was not a UN mission. In many ways, it felt like a NEO that sort of decided to hang around after the evac was done. Somewhere between trying to...

That’s what everybody’s been dancing around, isn’t it? The incompetence of the City of Ottawa (specifically probably the Mayor and definitely the OPS Police Chief) and a Province of Ontario perfectly willing to let the situation play out as they had the city to blame and weren’t going to pay a...

Our public, that doesn’t really care, still throws the military about $22 Billion a year out of their taxes. Can‘t our integral leadership, that are specially selected and expensively trained, find some way to build some kind of combat capability within those assigned resources? I mean, we are...

Plenty. I’m a former USS, and I’ve witnessed more investigations, infractions and data spills than I can count. Some of it is accidental, but some of it, a lot of it, is that certain of my peers and superiors lack enthusiasm about security — and they see there are no/minimal consequences.

I’m a big fan of remote work. There are certain people of my acquaintance that we should absolutely keep as far away as possible from classified material and from the troops.

I’m on board with that — it’s the current incarnation of CFLRS that I have issues with. Once we have sent all the recruits out to their trade schools, and all the officer cadets over to a new CFOCS on the current grounds of RMC Kingston, I think that the Mega would be a fine home for Joint ISR...

I fully agree about the value of one station training. As it stands now, a soldier needs 2 or 3 courses to become DP1 qualified and sent to their first job — and the various army and joint training authorities seem to lack the ability to synchronize that training, leading to our most valuable...

You’d be getting there. You’d have more firepower than a comparable British armoured brigade, but less protection, so you’d probably get the job done with higher casualties.

Yes — because you‘d be missing self propelled artillery. Mortars are critical, but they supplement, not replace, proper tube and rocket artillery.

Treasury Board seems to have ruled out the first option. The second option — moving entire units to where military personnel can afford to live, seems like an obvious choice — but it doesn‘t seem to be happening. Senior leadership prefers to bang their heads against the PLD brick wall, I suppose.

Isn’t it the case that such a waiver would only be needed for a 12 month tour? As I understand it, an annuitant can do a 6 month tour without a waiver.

Canada’s Francophone proportion of population is shrinking — Statscan forecasts 17-18% by the mid-2030’s, and the population of Quebec tracks older than the national average. A breakdown of Canada’s fighting age population may show even worse numbers. Valcartier has absolutely been a success...

You had me at the fighting brigades reporting to a staff-heavy headquarters in Montreal. The Canadian Army goes full circle back to where it was when I joined — albeit out of Long Point, since we’ve divested most of Saint Hubert.

And the GG’s office includes a number of capabilities that would still need to be performed in a Republic — most notably heraldry and honours. Republics still need badges and medals.