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You're not going to find the policy.  The policy can change daily.  It cannot be a CAF policy, simply because we have far too many different climates.  What is good for Esquimalt certainly wouldn't be good for Winnipeg and what is good for southern Ontario won't be good for Gagetown and so on...

Wear whatever the RSM is wearing and you can't go wrong.  Quit wasting your time thinking and trying to change policy.  Become an RSM and then change it.

MilCOTS are an interim band-aid at best. Yeah, they'll get you by, but if the cut is deep enough, you will still die. 

Competition

Hell yeah!!!  Of course!  Give me my rockets!!!

Study suggests we aren't smart enough for democracy, and I tend to believe it! http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/why-our-brains-aren-t-built-for-democracy-1.2784220

Consolidation only makes sense for garrison i.e. pooling equipment and the techs required to support them. I don't see any relevance for probable missions that we may take on. I see the symmetry of the Bdes solely as a sustainability (in war) solution.  We cannot have a Hvy Bde, Med Bde and...

This is a great vid. Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI

Agree completely and I think we are doing it right, although it seems to be a constant argument on whether or not we should still do MAPS, or more specifically, to what magnitude.  We continue to add new things to our training plans and develop new TTPs, yet we don't seem to clear our plate of...

Interesting you say that.  A lot of older fellows would say we are better off with markers and talc.  I am not one of those older fellows.

Thanks Thuc.  You do post a lot of great stuff.  Do you actually research the stuff or are you just posting stuff that you think people may be interested in?

If you want it standardized then great, but pushing/marching ones body weight is not necessarily a standard.  A 60kg person carrying 30kg extra is far from a 100kg person carrying an extra 30kg. While I agree it shouldn't give fat guys a break, it shouldn't give scrawny guys a break either...

It's interesting you say "feet to the fire".  When it was a CAF standard that CoC was held accountable for preparation.  Now that it is not, they aren't.  The only person's feet to the fire are the individuals; which is not necessarily a bad thing, but the CoC seems to be absolved.  

Very true and ironically now that it is not just a fitness standard the repercussions for failing are probably greater.  It would mean that you have failed IBTS, therefore you are not fit for operations.  A tasking away from unit?  If you are unfit, don't tempt them, as you may never get to...

You take the sinister crowd and I'll take the annoying groupies!  ;)

The biggest difference being think tanks aren't held accountable. 

The saddest thing about the sports above, is that most of them are individual sports.  Isn't the military a team effort?  ???

A corpse of a 2Lt that appeared to be trying to push it out was also found.  ;D

Naval INS - the height of a slosh of rum in a glass, multiplied by time. 

The yellowed sentence really makes me wonder.  Is he suggesting we give them a handicap?  I don't see how evening things up and prolonging the agony is more humane than a quick and decisive win. Also, when is it ever true where only one side stands to win, drone or no drone?  This statement...