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It would be about the same timeline for us. The devilry (for us and I'm sure the Malaysians too) is in the pre-order phase.

Units rotate in and out of high readiness status. 3VP was at high readiness at the right times.

Not at all what I'm saying. It's the job of commanders to analyze and seek out command intent in interpreting orders, particularly when one order or policy appears to significantly deviate from other orders and policies, as this one seems to. At some point long stale-dated messages cease to...

Not just an 03 CANFORGEN, a 03 CANFORGEN entirely predicated on ad hoc comments made by a CDS in 1998 during a weekly staff meeting with uncirculated minutes, and which promises amplification in a subsequent publication that was never forthcoming. I'm with you.

Actually, we DO know what the injury was: he slipped on the ice and damaged his Achilles tendon in some way. Obviously the injury was not (as he claims) that his Achilles tendon was "ripped": I know about that injury and if he'd suffered it, there's no way he could have stood let alone be forced...

To be fair (probably fairer than she deserves), the mens rea of the "second" offence actually occurred in 1997 when she decided that 126 days in theatre was enough time to put up an SSM. The fact that she was sentenced the first time no doubt led to the scrutiny of her record that resulted in...

For whatever reason, you appear to be spoiling for a sh*t-flinging match. I'm not going to give it to you. I would estimate that in this case we're getting less than one-quarter of the full story.

I don't know who this guy is and - like every single other person on this forum with the possible exception of the OP himself - have no knowledge of the fuller circumstances of the case from the scanty and perspective-skewed details provided. I was just correcting some manifestly wrong related...

This is completely incorrect. While it is true that a person can only be charged under the disciplinary system for something that they do or fail to do as ordered while subject to the NDA, there are two things the chain of command CAN do: - Give you an order on one period that you're subject to...

Interesting bit of background history. At the time the contract was awarded CAE was an aircraft simulator company; the R&D contract to develop the IMCS from scratch could have just as easily been given to Lockheed Martin or any one of a number of more established international (read: US) defence...

I don't know about that... CAE/L-3's IMCS was developed bespoke for the FFH project based on the extensive consultation with industry that preceded construction during requirements definition. There's a case to be made that any first-world military procurement should be about enhancing the state...

Just because we're not selling whole ships, it's naive to suppose there haven't been durable economic benefits to previous military industry investments. To use just one example from the Halifax class frigates, a whole division of CAE (now under L-3) has been employing hundreds of solidly...

Good point - Canada has over a half-million seasonal workers, mostly of the same demographic as our military (predominantly male, same age range, etc). Even just 3% of that could form a very credible reserve force on its own: available for extended coursing and easily as many weeks a year on...

To the best of my knowledge NBP training has always included P225, MP5 and Remington 870 famil for all members, regardless of the allocation of weapons during a specific boarding. I expect you're right that that allocation would change for higher-risk operations, but I don't see why they'd want...

Well, doctrinally this is precisely the problem that having a reserve is intended to address.

I once pitched a similar "gap year" (as it's called in the UK) approach to reserve recruiting to NAVRES. Done properly, it could attract the kind of visibility in high schools that ROTP does: save some money working for a year, get subsidized tuition and have a guaranteed part-time/occasional...

But here's where the falacious comparision comes in: your CER CO with 300 engineers or your armoured CO with 400 troopers relies on the existence of LCols at CFRG, CDA, etc that support them in ways that they do not support militia units. If you left the current militia organizational support...

Okay, I'll make the case if a devil's advocate is what's needed: expecting a 500-600 multiplier per LCol and CWO is a regular force infantry battalion-specific construct that fails in application all across the regular force CF, to say nothing of the reserve. The command challenges of commanding...

Is Afghanistan now so far in the rearview mirror that we're back to conidently asserting that the militia is a hopeless bag of hammers that has no role to play? Frankly, in 68 pages the only legitimate criticism of the organization I've seen is, "Many reserve units are parading far below...

Not sure if you had a chance to look at that link, but as of the article date of mid-June, 100 people have exchanged. Not a huge uptake over three years, but far from nothing.