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    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    But would that actually work? Something like half of Canada’s population lives in our 10 largest cities. If we can’t attract urban Canadians, then we can’t attract Canadians. Not that I’m saying that Thunder Bay and Windsor shouldn’t have recruiting centres — it’s just that it shouldn’t be seen...
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    Reconstitution

    Roger Cyr wasn’t a GOFO. He was a three-ringer (Commander, a salt-water LCol-equivalent)
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure - CAMO Discussion

    On that topic, did we ever get the FCS on the C16 CASW Automatic Grenade Launcher to work? When I left the field force it was still incapable of registering targets — a bracket for a C2 sight would have been an upgrade.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure - CAMO Discussion

    A single large regiment with two squadrons of tank and two squadrons of LRSS is certainly an option — two small regiments might be more likely. Those two regiments (units) could still be in the same brigade (formation) — probably 1 brigade, although there is an argument that scarce resources...
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    Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    I thought that everyone was united in hating 5 Wing Goose Bay — the locals (who protest it), the CAF (whose families hate living there) and our Allies (who hate the bad press from the protests). Everyone except one person. Former MND O’Connor wanted to revitalize it and put a light infantry...
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    According to an estimate published in the Norwegian media — 5600 litres an hour. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/next-threat-stealth-f-35-global-warming-92931
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    PRes - Promotion to Maj without AOC qual

    Oddly enough, even though the Regular Force will happily promote Army officers to Majors without AOC, the Army Reserve currently seems to be enforcing a mandatory AOC requirement for promotion to Major. Not sure where the reference for that is, nor what was the root of the idea that reservists...
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    Component Transfer from NWO to INTO while in Royal Military College. Should i VR and Reapply? need advice

    The vast majority of Naval IntOs work out of cubicles in Ottawa. There are some on the coasts, but it wouldn't be reasonable to expect the bulk of a career as a Naval IntO to be spent in Halifax. More like one or two postings.
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    No more uniforms in court

    Witness intimidation comes to mind.
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    ‘White nationalism’ a threat the Canadian Armed Forces aren’t equipped for: watchdog

    My own regiment has a bit of a history of serious criminality — but not much in the way of political activism. Criminal behaviour with a profit motive seems to be seen as much less threatening than extremist/violent political ideologies.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure - CAMO Discussion

    Try to look unimportant, the Hunter/Killer Drones might be low on ammo!
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    CAF now re-open to Permanent Residents

    That’s the next step isn’t it? Permanent residents are already quite far along on a path to citizenship, so enrolling them expands the potential recruiting pool, but not drastically. But enrolling non-residents or those on tourist visas? Potential game changer.
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure - CAMO Discussion

    Wait until self-propelled anti-aircraft guns make their big comeback in the counter-UAS role. They’ll be throwing up ordnance all over the sky at drones, helicopters, geese, unusual looking clouds…
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    Reconstitution

    The Legion seems to be firmly dying as a veterans’ organization. It may have a future as a social organization, but that remains to be seen. In the last 10 years I have seen a bit of an uptick in participation in various regimental/branch associations from veterans of ‘my’ generation...
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    Reconstitution

    How did we guard the nuclear weapons back in the day? Was it an MP role, or did the US provide the force protection along with the USAF Ordnance detachments?
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    Reconstitution

    But are they moving in large enough numbers to matter? The 2021 Census was a snapshot after over a year of pandemic, and it talks about the same trends — rural depopulation and growth in cities — that we’ve been seeing for decades. If people were actually cashing out their houses in the GTA and...
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    Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Overwhelming artillery requires overwhelming supplies of ammo. Since the Soviet rail network existed, but was less than impressive, and horses don’t exactly cut it — I sometimes wonder how much of the famed Soviet Operational Art 1943-1945 was entirely reliant on lend lease trucks from Detroit —...
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    Unrest in Haiti, Again

    MIF-H (Op HALO, Haiti, 2004) was not a blue helmet mission. The follow on, Brazilian-led, force was UN, but the US/French/Chilean/Canadian intervention was not a UN mission. In many ways, it felt like a NEO that sort of decided to hang around after the evac was done. Somewhere between trying to...
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    Freedom Convoy protests [Split from All things 2019-nCoV]

    That’s what everybody’s been dancing around, isn’t it? The incompetence of the City of Ottawa (specifically probably the Mayor and definitely the OPS Police Chief) and a Province of Ontario perfectly willing to let the situation play out as they had the city to blame and weren’t going to pay a...
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    Reconstitution

    Our public, that doesn’t really care, still throws the military about $22 Billion a year out of their taxes. Can‘t our integral leadership, that are specially selected and expensively trained, find some way to build some kind of combat capability within those assigned resources? I mean, we are...
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