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According to the project itself the MILCOT is a "Militarized Commercial Veh" so a brief familirisation and road test is all that is req to be qualified. 

A couple of comments 1)  Apparently the VOR for the Stryker fleet in Iraq was 98% despite the fact that they looged over 3 million miles in a 12 month period. 2)  PBI, I totally agree with you.  Sustaining the infrastructure of the country which you are in, is a big part of the hearts and minds...

George I acknowledge your statements but I am perhaps still comitted to the MGS (Of course the final product is very much in development).  What scenario do you for-see in the future that will require a future Canadian MBT (Hu-ah as much as I love'em)?  I just can't see us deploying the Armour...

Deadly at worst. And lets just say for the sake of argument, that the Croats/Surbs had Serbsed to take further exception to our presence when we were there? We'd be in a world of hurt. Same with Somalia. If the technicals had more access to fuel, it would have gone very bad for us. It didn't...

Let's just remember the nature of the threat.  We are no longer going to be committed into action against the Russian hordes or against a tank based army on aan open front.  As the theorists are fond of saying the world is becoming more urban, thus more battle will be fought in the urban...

The problem with using a Marine Corps model is the fact that although they have what appears to be a good mix of combat capability they rely heavily on their Air assets.  In fact they are proud to boast that they have the third largest air force in the world (3rd or 5th fading memory :salute:) ...