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Over four hundred years ago, King James the Sixth of Scotland inherited the throne of England at a time when the Christian Church was deeply divided. Here at Hampton Court in 1604, he convened a conference of churchmen of all shades of opinion to discuss the future of Christianity in this...

For the timebeing FRES-Specialist (CVR-T recce replacement) is still a go.  FRES-Utility (Saxon, FV-432) has been cancelled for the timebeing.  However, with the budget reviews still ongoing, I wouldn't be surprised if the whole thing gets binned, only to start again in a couple years under a...

FRES Specialist (Recce) has been awarded to GDLS Europe with their ASCOD vehicle, which competed against a modified (shortened by 1 roadwheel) recce version of the CV90. The 'utility' portion of FRES which was intended to replace the FV432 and Saxon APCs (?) with an 8x8 wheeled vehicle.  The...

The BAE Alligator 6x6 is a further development of the SEP program.  It has done away with the electric drive and uses a conventional powertrain drive system, as per the 8x8 SEP which was BAE's submission for the British FRES program (won by GDLS-Europe's Pirahana V, then subsequently cancelled).

BAE has posted some photos of the Alligator 6x6 which is one of their entries for the TAPV competition.

How much leeway are you guys given to customize your rig setups, or is there going to be a 'battalion/company standard' layout for specific weapons types? If you or any of the other guys that were issued these are interested in a bib/admin pouch that'll work with the 2 piece MAV, let me know...

We always hear the 'Troops will vote with their feet' argument, and to a certain respect, yeah probably a significant number would VR, however we've seen things like this happen in the past whereby a unit is disbanded (i.e. CAR), Re-roled, or is moved (i.e. 1RCR from London to Petawawa, and...

And if a re-role happened, what'd these guys realistically be looking at doing as an alternative? 

Do we have enough forces to run a dual track of mission capability? i.e. enough mech or light roled units to allow for sufficient ramp up time for either to be trained up into the other mission capability? Much agreed, and I think the Army needs to take a more serious look at what they are...

I clarified my earlier post regarding a single high readiness light infantry battalion and CSOR.  What my main concern about redundancy was in regard to battalion and company sized direct action roles, not so much the US Army SF's ODA type structure and missions, whether they be direct action...

Just finished reading an interview with the current CLS, LGen Peter Devlin in Esprit de Corps.  Now before somebody jumps on the 'I hate Scott Taylor...EdC is a rag I wouldn't even use to wipe my butt with...' bandwagon, there was an interesting comment made by the CLS in Vol 17, Issue #10, page...

In the Canadian recce context, using LAV-25 Coyotes (until replaced by TAPV) you could conceivably mount Assault/Support troop in either LAV-Bison (although most are not in APC mode anymore), LAV-III, or a TLAV and maintain the same tactical mobility as the Coyote.  Once TAPV comes into service...

MARINE CORPS ORDERS No. 47 (Series 1921) HEADQUARTERS U.S. MARINE CORPS Washington, November 1, 1921 759. The following will be read to the command on the 10th of November, 1921, and hereafter on the  10 November of every year. Should the order not be received by the 10th of November, 1921...

Whilst I would say that is a great model for how to acheive economies of scale and cost sharing between federal and municipal/provincial agencies, do we have the budget to replicate that across the country?  I think that over the next 5 years, the primary focus will be on near term immediate...

I'm not talking about closing down ALL armouries in urban areas, but having a hard look at redundant facilities, or facilities which are not cost effective to maintain in the long-term. Also, you're right in that the monies generated from the sale of DND lands don't go back into the DND budget...

The question of closing bases for purely financial reasons must be evaluated whether the units vacating the base are: A)  Redundant and and not being relocated, but closed down B)  Able to move onto an existing base without the need to create new infrastructure to house them C)  Being moved to...

I'm curious as to how they're going to score the characteristics of each one of the MFRs against each other, seeing as how the trial participants will only be getting to use one particular version, rather than get a chance to use all 3 systems in training and operations. All MFRs and associated...

Question for the original poster:  If you're ROTP, wouldn't that make you a Naval Cadet?  Unless I'm wrong, NCdt's rank insignia doesn't have an executive curl in it, so you should be fine with the regular CF officer braid for NCdt's and OCdt's.

And how often do folks at NDHQ actually do PWTs?  Probably just as easy to send people up to Petawawa for a PWT cycle than it is to use Connaught.  Even if you didn't close all the ranges at Connaught, there's a relatively sizable chunk of land there that could be developed for housing.

Lets not forget too that DND will have to either exercise early lease terminations (with financial penalties) on the non-government owned commercial property they are located in around the NCR or stay onsite until the leases expire. Additionally a significant amount of renovation work will...