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Yeah having seen that I am not going to expect great things. Another L1 of rerorganized existing staff directorates is likely a bandaid solution at best. Maybe I will be wrong.

In this entire conversation there is one question in my mind, I’m curious about if the CA 4-5 years ago as it was building this GRFT ORBAT and the NTM ideas actually discussed this with the RCAF. From my knowledge of the process it was a CA only process inside the CA HQ, the Div HQs and the 3rd...

Found this while trying to look up what the 1980 course covered. THE EVOLUTION OF CANADIAN FORCES STAFF EDUCATION AND OPERATING IN A POST-COLD WAR WORLD Seems that the 1980s course morphed into the current JCSP. ALPs is now the Army’s effort to address supposed JCSP deficiencies in the Land...

My understanding is that’s it’s only for a 12-24 month period. Given the Army career mgmt and the post JCSP nature of the nominations I would be surprised if the graduates are employed in a directly related position past 36 months. I would also offer that it’s likely not great odds that they...

That’s one reason I think the post JSCP selection is perhaps an issue. The concepts aren’t necessarily Bde level but employing them at that level does two things in my mind; It allows for the Div and Corps plans to be better understood at the Bde level. It allows for personnel to gain...

As the Army attempts to upscale itself from Battalions and Battle Group to Brigades and Divisions, the Army is introducing a new course. The Advanced Land Power Studies - ALPs for short. This is supposed to take its origin from the US Army’s Advanced Military Studies Program better know by...

CANSOFCOM is not headquartered out of Suffield. In general terms if you don’t want to advertise what units your personal are actually employed at you can just publicly state they all work for the HQ. Various CANSOF units have LOs across the country in various positions. I expect Suffield is...

How about no buyback period and we just allow all Canadian citizens to own their property that they became licensed to own. There was nothing wrong with the general system in 2015. The named prohibition of certain firearms, magazine restrictions, and range only restrictions were really the...

There is a line between breaking the very very strong institutional inertia in the Army and breaking the Army by having everything in motion with no foot on the ground. I suspect we are going to make that line very fine and then try to walk it.

The limited funding leads me to think they are hoping secretly for mass non compliance and/or people to just Dewat their guns on their own. That way the government doesn’t have to spend money and can just pretend this doesn’t exist.

The current and historical Liberal stance on gun control guarantees that the Liberal Party of Canada will never garner a vote from myself. I could like every single other aspect of the LPC platform but the LPC gun control policy is a poison pill I am unwilling to swallow. If the LPC adopted the...

Last I heard was early December.

Here’s what might be in discussion for this. Likely a total of 4 CARBs. Reservists would sign up for 12-24 months of Class C. Talk is mostly of 24 with some push back that 12 is more realistic to expect. Readiness would rotate among them and the individual augmentation to the deployed Reg...

Danish contract with Colt Canada for 26,000 C8 MRRs to start. I like that it’s a IDIQ contract. https://soldiersystems.net/2025/08/21/colt-canada-awarded-major-danish-contract/

Some Canadian FMS funds directed to supporting SM2 Block IIICU development and manufacturing https://www.defense.gov/News/Contracts/Contract/Article/4272801/

Yeah, that’s all basically what I was tracking but maybe I missed something on the optics decisions. Those pictures clearly show a mix and match and I should not have maybe called them C8A4s. I found it amusing that they were running ELCANs with flip up iron sights in the up position with no...

I wasn’t tracking we had decided on optics. Which optics were picked? Any idea if we are proceeding with our proprietary reticle?

Some pictures of the C8A4. Apparently from a TASO course last year.

Ya, I have a 6004 with that half moon cut in it. Wish I could get a BHP now to use with it. I thought that the Aussie BHP upgrades were okay. I got to use one a bit before they retired them and they incorporated new grips, sights and safeties (I think? It’s been a while). I don’t think they...

I will take a look this week once I am in the office.