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They have a PAT Pl of about 25 according to that same slide deck. The problem with a unit that small, even though its tactically grouped with another, the PWOR, is when you are that small, you just can't run the courses to grow. Not enough NCOs. So the unit gets stuck in a loop of creating 2-6...

Nah. There are already multiple units in every major city that are well below doctrinal strength. It's far easier to just expand the existing ones than pull units off the Supp Orbat. The Brockville Rifles for example have a Trained Effective Strength of 36 according to a slide deck from September.

But Scottish isn't a religion, Sikhism is. How do you have a religious regiment in a country that is supposed to be secular? How do you have a religious regiment that doesn't expect or only allow its members to be practitioners of that religion? Why are we targeting 1 million Canadian Sikhs with...

But how does this work in practice? There are a million Sikhs in Canada, so we stand up a Sikh regiment. Can only Sikhs be a part of this regiment? Does that mean we will stand up a Christian regiment, a Muslim regiment, a Jewish regiment, and an atheist regiment? If I join the Sikh regiment as...

Yea, that's my bad. I've talked to reps from both in the last months and mixed up my acronyms.

No. There are existing units in every major city. It is way more work to create an entirely new regiment than to just authorize the expansion of an existing one. In the next 5 years, we can expect to see most PRes units authorized to increase their establishments to their doctrinal orbats.

That is why ADM(IE) and DLR have initiated an Army Reserve Infrastructure review and are looking to begin constructing/purchasing new facilities as early as FY 26/27. Yes. A CARB building will be built around the entitlements set out in those documents. 10 m2 office space for the CO, 4.5m 2...

Infrastructure for the reserves is guided by a policy called the Army Reserves Scale of Accomodation, which details how much training space/classrooms/etc a reserve establishment is entitled to. This combined with the Army Reserve Establishment and the workplace 2.0 office guidelines will...

That's why we can't put our hands in our pockets. Pockets are for magazines, not hands.

About once a week, usually Friday afternoons, I check sharepoint for updates to the various projects I am interested in. Last I saw on SD roll-out was like 2 weeks ago. There's a slide deck for the Canadian Army Dress and Ceremonial Committee that met at the end of November that said rollout...

I look forward to seeing the data in a year. Did more troops make it to their DP1/RQ than other cohorts who did not do this course? How were they employed in their formations while waiting? It will be an interesting read.

Wait, you guys are getting RegF Capts in your unit?

Growing the ARes at the moment is not necessarily that daunting of a challenge. This Fiscal year, every reserve infantry regiment from Barrie to St Catharines will enroll 40 privates and 2 officer cadets. And that's not because they can only enroll 40, its because that is the maximum they are...

ICE jacket and parka still have magazine pockets, no need to fret!

New Army service dress rolls out, issued by unit, in Q4 2026, and new combat uniform rolls out in Q4 2027, you just gotta hold on until then.

Modern combat uniforms looks very similar across nato, particularly with everyone also using multicam. When I was in Kuwait, the only nations who's uniforms stood out and could be identified without having to see the flag were us and the brits, and we only stood out because the Canadians were...

Maybe we leave the MRes speculation in the other threads, and keep this one for being uniform nerds lol. I don't think the MRes gets uniforms though.

I will neither confirm nor deny the existence of a draft 'No. 5A garrison dress' image on Sharepoint which shows the new combats with the shirt tucked in and a regimental stables belt represented by a royal blue canadian army stables belt. I will share these images of the trial uniform that...

That is literally the concept. everyone on the MRes would be expected to attend a yearly 5 day training event. DAG, update education/qualifications on record, weapons handling, fitness test, handful of other lectures/lessons. Start missing your 5 day event? off the list. It will take some...

While I can't speak to 33 CBG, I can tell you that the GDLS boogeyman in 31 CBG is way overblown. There are way less GDLS employees who are Class A than the jokes imply. If anything, GDLS employment is over represented at the Snr Officer level, and 31 CBG has enough Majors and LCols to fill the...