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It's Monday? POTUS has indigestion from some bad freedom fries? Kentucky bourbon distillers are complaining? US needs a distraction from $5/gallon gas? Xi and Putin shared a call, then told their useful idiot that he hadn't done enough damage to the West yet?

AUS paid about $125M USD per unit, a few years ago, and as far as I know that didn't include most spares and tooling. There's a range of prices from $67-125M per unit... they are not cheap.

I strongly suspect there will be fewer crossings.

Well sure; you were looking into the mirrors ;)

Another day, another desecration.

HQSS for the win!

If folks decide to skip the 2-3 weekends a year where they use the real equipment, them quitting is not a net loss. The Army Reserve needs embrace quality over quantity.

Sims are part of a trading system, not the totality of it. Working out the awkward bits in advance on sims lets the real equipment be used for more advanced training/ reinforcement.

Welcome to Thunder Bay. On the plus side, the staff sergeant will be doing federal time. https://ricochet.media/justice/police-state/thunder-bay-cop-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison/

No. No they are not. Not appealing at all.

I'm saying that the CAF leadership model favours the loudest person in the room, not the person who collaborates with the room. The VCDS very much has to have that skill. CAF leadership views strategic horizons measured in months. The VCDS is working on horizons measured in decades. VCDS is...

The Army does not control the establishment of the CAF. If the Army was unable to justify their proposed structure to the VCDS (responsible for the CAF establishment) then the extant 2 Div Comd position would be recycled.

The Venn diagram between "learned their lesson and quieted down" and "NWOs who fail" is a null set.

COS Support designate for 2XX is a full time reservist.

The first CANFORGEN announcement was just released yesterday, I suspect a press release is working its way through the labyrinth of Public Affairs approvals.

VCDS is a future looking, collaboration position. NWOs are fight today and give orders. Steve Kelsey was an accidental VCDS and has seen the CAF get unprecedented funding and increased authorities... In no small part because of his experience in force development and collaboration.

VCDS is the bureaucratic face of the CAF with the central agencies of government (PCO, TBS, Finance, PSPC, ISED...) It's an institutional leadership role, not a command role. NWOs as a rule do not fare well in institutional leadership roles, as they require skills not prioritized in RCN...

Pushing the RCN to be a Coast Guard in grey is not a win.