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Ummm... http://www.navy-marine.forces.gc.ca/en/about/structure-marlant-news-view.page?doc=serving-on-regulus-a-new-world-of-naval-development/hwn8ur0x

Having spoken quite a bit about this with a friend who was a volunteer in Kingston before becoming part of their full-time service (they have a mix of both), the relationship between the two is a strange dynamic. The volunteers are subject to roughly the same standards and receive approximately...

If you won't, I will. The difference is that a CMBG is a tactical HQ and a CBG is an administrative HQ. The work of CBGs is largely consumed with recruiting, training up to the OFP, and personnel administration - tasks that the CMBGs can entirely rely on other administrative HQs for (CFRG, CDA...

Agreed - the comment in the video about having the ship "loiter" for 30 days doing surveillance is a joke. Can you imagine the habitability issues involved in trying to keep even a small crew in a thing that size for 30 days even just 12 miles offshore? Also, it may have a low radar...

FWIW (and agreeing completely with Transporter about the state of the regulations), my understanding was that MS who take UTPNCM are only automatically promoted to Slt (i.e. given treatment similar to CFR) if they are qualified for promotion to PO2: i.e. if you have the time in rank and course...

"I certainly do not have the qualifications to compare with the learned members of the APA who have seen fit to broaden the criteria of a traumatic event. Nevertheless, in my layman’s mind, I do have reservations." Seems he presents his opinion well-qualified about his specific level of...

FTFY - ref. QR&O 9.04, para 2: http://www.admfincs.forces.gc.ca/qro-orf/vol-01/chapter-chapitre-009-eng.asp

Well, only if you're working eight-hour class A days. The half-day most reservists are paid to attend a training evening is typically about three hours long, and a full-day of pay can be for as little as six hours of work. So I guess it would be fairer to say that class A reservists "can be"...

The issue: DND spends as much as more than half of all the other departments put together. Planning a $20B defence budget is about a hundred, not twenty, times more complicated than planning a $1B Heritage department budget. TBS guidelines and planning models are optimized for the smaller...

Sounds to me like you can't possibly have enough information to have reached that conclusion. If you knew how these ships are crewed (i.e. with a nearly continual turnover of personnel, including key positions - something that's becoming more common in the rest of the fleet too), you too might...

I'm not "dismissing" the IDF as a first world military, I'm saying that it's not a relevant comparator to Canada exactly because its circumstances are not ours. Canada is NOT surrounded by enemies and our national survival (generally) does NOT depend on our military. As such, our military is...

That programme exists - it's called the Joint Command and Staff Program, but even that year-long, quite intensive overview delivered right before promotion to LCol/Cdr can't provide completely comprehensive coverage of all the "nooks and crannies" that exist in CAF capabilities, and you won't be...

While I'm inclined to broadly agree with you about unification, I'll take exception with the comparison to the IDF, which I feel is irrelevant to the Canadian context. The IDF enjoys continuous and generally growing budgetary and political support. In Canada, the forces are almost continuously...

IMNAL, however I do have a masters degree in law and I'm Presiding Officer qualified, so here's my crack at your question: The requirement for a caution doesn't arise out of legislation, but out of the charter right against self-incrimination. This right creates a rule of criminal evidence...

Well, to be fair those Branch/Occupation Advisors are class "A" positions, and positions that do indeed need to exist as reserve advisors to the branch/trade. The problem now is in how they see their role and who they work predominantly with (i.e. not with the RCN-level branch/occupation...

From what I understand, "career management", such as it is, in the Army Reserve is more or less the unit chain of command, (rather than the D Mil C-esque structure that NAVRES mirrors but isn't integrated with) so I assume you're talking about occupation management. I think in that case the...

I'm in full agreement with your sentiment: it's ridiculous that a PO2 NET can't be in NAVRES without retraining as something else. Surely he can do exactly as much refresher training on weekends and weeks at sea as any other trade; he just also happens to have years of prior Reg F experience to...

For the same reason 3 PPCLI doesn't do policing in Edmonton.

Commercial sealift is cheap and readily available for lease when needed - as compared to commercial heavy airlift, the world supply of which is limited and getting smaller, and which tends to get completely constricted by NGOs and other world militaries in times of crisis. This is why Canada...

The budget is "fixed", but that doesn't mean that the number won't change over time to accommodate inflation. As I said, the NSPS budget was quoted in 2012 dollars; the TB financial model is pretty comprehensive. I certainly don't blame you and a lot of other people for thinking otherwise - the...