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Although, when those duties likely include a line item about "maintaining good relations with the host nation and local community," mitigating a politician's gobbing off (VP, IIRC, isn't in the chain of command) and keeping a lid on your stupider troops seems worth doing.

Quick! Nab some more guns from the Russians!

Shifting the centre of gravity away from purple could be done without undue duplication. If the only places RCN/CA/RCAF pers in a given field bump into each other is at the school, maybe that field doesn't need to be a branch. Bung the common school under the VCDS, somewhere, maintain an...

Asking from a point of zero knowledge, what's the difference, and how has it been misconstrued? Swerving the topic... this seems like an argument for higher pay at an earlier career point: if Pte Bloggins needs to be operating at an elevated level from historical expectations (i.e., whenever...

Are the DC schools something that would benefit from doubled capacity anyways? Would it make sense to just build two new facilities adjacent to the current ones then give the current ones a real overhaul?

Yikes. Feels like an easy start for spending money on the Army. Had somehow missed that mod tentage was getting superseded...

That bad, eh? What's missing as far as equipment for current doctrine?

A more overt "this is a nucleus" approach might be helpful: allows singing the song of "more PYs plz" without having to be as deceptive about it. Looking at the thread title: building out the nine battalions to full strength, including the school staff, battalion-adjacent pers from range...

Isn't being able to operate in the same area as tanks also a major argument for tracked vehicles? Or is that less crucial with artillery than IFVs?

The square holes on the frame under the launcher, which also looks like it has corner blocks similar to a sea can.

Are those fork pockets on the frame under the turret? Would lifting that off gain enough headroom, or is the Hercules cutoff height somewhere much lower?

Does the AG usually get involved in directing sentencing goals? If not, it seems like the sort of decision that creates martyrs.

Not sure how much civilianization is desirable until the "moving" support units are fully staffed, their static peers are fully staffed, and both are arranged in such a way that the moving units can pick up and deploy without affecting support for whoever is left behind. Plus the entire CSS...

Trump being who he is, Carney may have benefited from sounding like a high-end banker: a class of person DJT has actually had to make deals with, including as a supplicant, over the years. This came to mind listening to Carney on the radio, attempting to make campaigning noises: it feels like...

It's also relatively low-footprint. Want an easy way to spend a bunch of defence money? Establish skeet ranges all over the place, and also fund a) unit weapons training as a a priority item, and b) additional service weapon firing on existing rifle ranges. Start treating it in a manner similar...

If there's a need for a federal constabulary fleet that isn't RCN, why look at messing with the CCG, who're already a bunch of distinct fleets/missions with a common paintjob, and not just build out the RCMP's maritime capacity?

Wonder how unique their handling is, too, given the waterjet system.

Is there room within any of the developing defence arrangements to line the designers up with foreign work?

Perhaps only starting "up or out" after a certain rank (maybe PO1 and LCdr?), and exempting certain trades and career paths entirely?