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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.

It's good that we can cut the RCN and put it under command of the CCG!

With any luck we can break pilot into at least two different occs - rotary and fixed - and streamline training as well to increase throughput.

Because both the RCAF and the Army like to pretend Trenton doesn't exist?

And? Despite appearances, the RCAF does not exist for the sole purpose of ensuring the continued operations of 431 Sqn.

Excuse me. That's tactical entry and egress from strategic transportation skill development and reinforcement.

Unless you've done nine BFTs in three days to seventeen different standards, the terrorists have won.

Obviously we're moving the Snowbirds to Twin Otters. Canadian aircraft made in Canada.

Hopefully the RCAF will be making such recommendations. If not, well, what follows is the result of their choices.

Except they didn't maintain them. The Army has chosen repeatedly to order trigger pullers to maintainers. The Army could absorb a couple thousand maintainers and related sustainment troops immediately, before thinking about any more.combat arms soldiers, regular or reserve. Indeed, the Army's...

An interesting discussion of the friction between Ukraine and Israel, and Israel's unexpectedly close ties to Russia. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/grain-dispute-reveals-bad-blood-ukraine-israel-9.7191839

As long as we have two regular force infantry battalions named as light when they are in fact mechanized, we can forgive the guns for a similar sin.

Why should one class of victims be able to pick and choose the venue for their alleged assailant, and not others?

It's disingenuous to say that HUIMARS goes back that far. While there my have been a dusty capability deficiency identified, real project work at the ID/OA phase was next to non existent, since it wasn't a funded capability. "Random staff officer has a dream" does not necessarily equate to...

There is no documented proof that the Snowbirds are an effective recruiting tool.

Scott Thompson is Canada's Queen.

It's impossible to kill. It has failed multiple times in multiple ways and costs more than it should because the USMC has a disproportionate influence on US defense procurement.

Almost sounds like a DNS issue.