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The unclassified version of the US National Defense Strategy is now available online. 🍻

I used to laugh at this wet cold / dry cold thing but honestly, -5*C in SW Ontario chills you right to the bone. You can dress for -30*C dry cold. And yeah. Lake effect streamers can be quite the snow conveyor belts. You can literally drive 30 kms on the 402 in bright sunshine and then have to...

That ... is ... cool. Says the man just coming in from the 8th time this season that he's used his significantly less expensive but handraulic snowblower to clear his own driveway. :giggle:

Interestingly the two agents who appear to be involved in the shootings in Minnesota were also pros with years of experience and not part of the recent hire rabble. :cool:

That's my way of thinking. IMHO, a proper cavalry unit needs both the AFV as well as some infantry carriers, C2 vehicles, probably some mortar carriers, definitely some anti-tank and AD carriers, some recce and surveillance carriers, FOO carriers and Engr carriers and a group of suitable...

Just to clarify: No questions. Just as an aside, my way of restructuring training would include July being the basics of a BMQ block (rifle, drill, first aid and map using, etc). The second month would be a block of basic infantry field craft, weapons, range qualifications, section and platoon...

Damn paywall. But see here. 🍻

Okay. What's your solution for a part timer? One two-month summer certainly isn't enough to create a DP1 of anything - it barely covers BMQ (which IMHO is too long and would be better spent in a pure-army basic course.) The only other option is to let them test the water for a summer and take...

I don't disagree at all. Military life is the hallmark of teamwork and you need people that you can count on. I joined with a grade ten education as a gunner at a time when you could become a regular force OCTP officer candidate with a grade eleven in every province except Ontario where you...

I presume you meant "reloader." :ROFLMAO: We did too with the M548s limber vehicles. They basically backed up within a few yards of the rear hatch on the M109 and a gunner would manhandle the rounds from one vehicle to the other. The main shortcoming is neither the M548 or the manhandling...

I'm looking at the months of May to August inclussive as the period during which individual training for reservists takes place. And yes, I'm factoring in summer leave and APS and equipment maintenance for the regular force (whose training cycles run September to April inclusive - remember I'm...

And that attitude pervades the higher ups way of thinking and that's why the army reserve has never amounted to anything since the 1950s and never will.

I've been pondering an issue. Typhon has a 4-cell Mk 41 VLS which has been tested with the SM-6 as well as Tomahawk. SM-6 is dual purpose - surface to surface and surface to air including terminal ballistic missile. The SM-3 works with the Mk 41 as well but to the best of my knowledge hasn't...

The IRIS-T and Skyranger purchases interest me. Typhon is also quite interesting. To the best of my knowledge the US is only planning on five of those for the presence - one per MDTF. - ground launched Tomahawks? 🍻

It's nice when your navy expenditures can be modest. :giggle:

I'm the same way. I'm not one of those new car each year types and plan on my cars for ten years at which point they are still useable - then again I'm not an 18-year-old gunner slamming around the ranges anymore. What I meant is that if you design a vehicle line to run ten or twenty years then...

I'll add another factor. Give the vehicles to the regular force for an estimated 2/3 of its service life. Then transfer it to a reserve role while a new vehicle replaces it in the reg force fleet. As a reserve vehicle it gets significantly less usgae and thereby extends it life considerably...

Its only available on Amazon as a Kindle edition or as a soft cover trade edition. Honestly, I wouldn't buy the 2nd edition. I've doing a lot of revising. It's been a while since I've done RSS but everything that I recall from then and what I hear anecdotally leads me to believe that in order...

By itself, no it wouldn't. In my opinion what needs to happen is first of all a change in the terms of service respecting primary reserve service. I would propose three classes of service "M - mandatory, V - voluntary and C - operational" Mandatory would be limited by regulation to the...