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Frankly, no. As nice as many of the CCV candidates are, there are far better places to spend $2B than on 108 of these. Also, LAV upgrade will improve the capability of our LAV III fleet significantly.

It's more likely we have no accurate idea as to the cost. There are two parallel initiatives going on right now that may shed some light on it; the Treasury Board driven Strategic Review and the internal Defence Force Structure Review that are looking into the CF/DND corporate world. I know...

Oh there are metric ass loads of them. The bloat I see in Ottawa is just staggering. Everyone is very very busy, but soooo much of it is not usefull work. NDHQ has become such a self-licking ice cream cone that a huge amount of time and effort is spent on the left hand trying to figure out what...

Only interested if the bed warmer is Lucy Pinder

The 108 or so CCV's would have augmented the LAV III fleet, not replaced it. Also, the CCV may have been a wheeled veh like a Boxer or VBCI in addition to the tracked vehs you mentioned...

Unworn Meindl Safari desert boots. Marked UK 9 - EU 43 but fit like a US 10.5. Same as here. Yours for $250 + shipping. EMT preferred. First "I'll take it" gets them.

No. The DART D&S platoon is a standing high-readiness task to 2CMBG due to the short NTM timeframes involved. However, I have a feeling there will be plenty of spots for qualified reservists to deploy to Haiti in the upcoming months, we're likely there for the long-haul.

It should be noted that Land Staff Class B Reservists would be on the LFC PRL, not the NDHQ PLR in most cases.

[Capt Mancuso] "The hard party about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch" [ /Capt Mancuso] I doubt the sea-hippies can sue for anything. Besides being eco-terrorists and general retards-of-the-waves, harassing the lawful Canadian seal hunt and the lawful Japanese whale hunt, in this case...

Naw, triple-dipping is when you leave the Reg F with pension to become a DND Public Servant, and are also a Class A Reservist!

I would suggest that operational experience trumps courses or time-in-rank, regardless of Reg/Res status.

And it's not just the Inf NCM's. I know a Res Inf Maj who was just told the same thing after he put his CT in: "closed". He also did a tour overseas, 4 of them. And Reg Force Phase Trg (incl Ph IV), and Reg F AOC. Oh well, maybe he will still be around when the trade opens. Or maybe he will...

Just in time for the Olympics, hmmm....

I agree that this should be the norm, however there is no doctrine to support it either way. The current allocation is varried dependant on individual units/org as far as who gets one. If you look at pistols on the TO&E for TFA it was almost exactly based on rank, with MCpls or Sgts and up...

Way to far out at this point to speculate what the replacement pistol may be, but as this pistol will also be the MP issued sidearm I doubt it will be a single-action, as most police services have moved away from those type. The Army still has to decide what role the pistol fills and who needs...

Wes, both the BHP and Sig P225 will be replaced by a new pistol in the next few years as part of the first phase of SARP II.

I don't want to be uparmoured like robocop, I want to be light, quick and agile. Hopefully materials science and engineering will continue to progress to the point where armour capable of stopping rifle rounds will be as thin, light and flexible as current soft IIIa armour. In the short term I...

The article was a great read, thanks for posting it. Now think of what MGs are capable of with modern ammo like SLAP and HEIAP! http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/slap.htm http://www.nammo.com/templates/Product.aspx?id=204

Kev already brought it up but FNH is already producing the M240 E6/Ti, which is 3.5lbs lighter. Not a huge difference but when you're lugging it around every bit helps. http://www.fnhusa.com/mil/products/firearms/model.asp?fid=FNF015&gid=FNG008&mid=FNM0139 If an even lighter 7.62LMG is desired...

The design in the MERX doc looks very similar to the Crye Combat Shirt, less the integrated elbow pads: http://www.cryeprecision.com/Item_Detail.aspx?ItemCode=APRCS402LGR&title=Combat+Shirt+Ac