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So they are, although the RCN's in process of addressing the lack of specific training, which was always a risk. There will still not be a standing unit let alone a specific trade for the capability, however.

Six BGens strikes you as too many for an organization of ~20K people? Hardcore, man. I don't disagree with your general point about staff flags (necessarily - I could make a compelling devil's advocate case, though), but six PRes BGens definitely aren't the issue.

You're both right (sort of) - the previous version of the leave manual specifically prohibited granting two sets of short leave in the same leave period. This means that the common practice of doing exactly that over Christmas was technically not permitted. The last leave manual revision...

Gearboxes and powerplants - Not at all. You won't find civilian ships with the complex CODAG sort of arrangements that are common (and necessary for redundancy) on warships. Hull - Nope. Naval hulls these days are optimized for radar cross-section reduction, which isn't even remotely a civilian...

If we managed time like we manage budgets, we'd all be working 120-hour weeks through the month of March to avoid having our units disbanded.

"Seek out every opportunity". Yeah, sounds like the COs' hands are really tied there.  ::)

I think you would find that if you submitted a grievance on the basis of the CDS Guidance to Commanding Officers, you'd find that COs continue to have wide latitude in implementing the many and conflicting directions and priorities set for their units. The specific implementation of that...

From the article: Can that possibly be true? The fleet wasn't much to behold in the early-90s prior to the introduction of the Halifax class and TRUMP. We were operating 1960s combat systems technology at a time when the state of the art had progressed a great deal in the previous fifteen...

I wouldn't read that much into it. Maddison was the navy's most recent real hope for the job, and he went down over the issue of contradicting the Senate vis-a-vis royalization (a waste of a good officer, but it suggests he wouldn't have played well at the political level). McFadden left his job...

Won't disagree there's a political component that makes it easy to sell to cabinet, but the whole "buy in Canada" gag is, from the military's perspective, about the strategic imperative to maintain at least a limited domestic defence production capacity that can be of use in time of crisis...

Hands down, the people I work with. Job satisfaction comes and goes, but the friend network is always there.

To be fair to Irving, SeaSpan has never delivered projects of the complexity we're asking of Irving with CSC. And I'm guessing the QA guy you talked to had mostly only worked with Irving. The job of QA is to spot faults; that tends to dim their view of whoever they work with.

Actually (and this is most definitely a tangent) my point is that in the UK the common usage is the strict traditional definition: if you told a UK civilian that you were in the military, they would ask "army or air force?". Obviously, the North American usage is different and I have always...

This convention is "the way it is" in the UK - "military" is army and air force (in recognition of its roots as the army's Royal Flying Corps) and "navy" is the RN and Fleet Air Arm. Hence the "Naval and Military Club" of London.

Hey, why not go ahead and post the OPSKED, too? It would save the bad guys a lot of time and effort.

The long-term steady state was always intended to be three boats up and one in EWP/drydock: that's the 100% solution. Having 75% of your force available for deployment is very good by any standard.

The purpose of FELEX has been specifically to upgrade the systems to extend the useful lifespan of the ships to 40+ years. A refitted ship will never be "new" as one designed and built from scratch (and there are limits to how much life you can squeeze out of an old hull with successive refits)...

Of the six RJTFs, JTFN is probably the only one punching close to its weight: unless things have considerably changed very recently, the staff is only about 15 guys commanded by a Col. There has to be some minimal admin support to the Ranger programme, periodic arctic exercises and CAAW arctic...

NDHQ - Strat-level and administrative HQ CJOC - Static operational-level joint (land, air, maritime) HQ commanding multiple missions 1CD - Deployable operational-level land-heavy HQ capable of commanding a single mission The HQs that are mostly surplus are the domestic RJTFs. Even the...

Nah, I re-ran mine and you were right - about the numbers. Your point is obviously that 24% is too many, but I don't see any reason to accept that at face value. The entire CAF isn't an infantry battalion.