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I have had Cpls and Mcpls working FOR me when I was a Cpl. I was senior and in the position. I was a Company Quartermaster SERGEANT as a Cpl. I was given the authority by the CSM, No one had a problem. Why can it work for troops and not officers? Lt Chard and Lt Bromhead at Rorkes Drift.

Read my lips SENIOR OFFICERS

Again Brevet ranks. Its been done for a long time and it work. You dont have to permanent promote.

"What’s your solutions for a 450 person infantry Bn, probably a Lt Col I assume? And if we group several of those together surely a Col commands it? You’re taking your experiences from a small reserve unit and attempting to apply it globally across the CAF. That’s simply not the case." It was...

"I remember when 3 Cdn Space Div was formed and people were wondering why 200 folks needed a BGen as Comd. Well, bc the job isn’t person-intensive but the effect and cost of those systems is orders of magnitude greater than the typical combat arms unit or ship’s company." I was a gunplumer with...

I was Army. I know very little about the Airforce so I defer to your opinion on that.

I only mean downrank senior Officers not everyone. We need Cpl/Ptes not Generals. Put the money where it needs to go.

Slash and burn would be my motto, lol. All I am saying is if we dont start to something concrete than it will just stay the same. No excuses.

Last time i checked lower ranks mean lower pay. Use the extra money to buy bullets and gas. And yes, I know all about different budgets and all that but fu*k this if we cant fix it then disband the whole s**thole. Thats how we get into this mess Give me a good reason why?

I knew Australia was getting worse but not that bad. Saying that, how many tanks and aircraft do they have compared to us? A LOT MORE. All militaries are doing this and all are getting bad, should it continue or should we get efficient?

CUT ALL GENERALS POSITIONS! We do not have the manpower to need even one general. You reduce positions as the lower the rank of the CO is you reduce the number of underlings. Why do you need 1 Div HQ AND CJOC? Why do you need social media to be 100s of organizations when it should be one...

We dont have real brigades, we have hollowed out ones that cannot do a brigades work. I am saying that we have to put the money into getting the brigades up to real numbers. Until a brigade is full strength you dont get a BGen to run it. If it only has enough troops to be a Company then its run...

If you downgrade the CDS from General to Colonel you downgrade all ranks below that. Thats is getting rid of hundreds of LGens MGens and BGens. If there is no position, then there is no need for anyone to occupy it. You would reduce the amount of senior Officer postions by a thousand, How does...

Yes, but the Army dont have an actual Div do we? We certainly dont have a Corps. Our "Div" is an HQ and doesn't have 15000 in it. I am talking about the real number of Troops we have in the Army, not paper. We should rank people for reality. You could run the Army with a Colonel. We had Brevet...

How many troops do we have now? 60 to 70 thousand? That doesn't need a Lt General.

I have heard that so many times it makes me sick. My first "command" in 1987 was as a no hook regforce Craftsman. I had the skills, so I was in charge and had 2 Cpls and 4 Ptes under me. Also was a CQMS as a Cpl. No one ever had a problem. I know lots of other instances of similar. Why is it an...

But then there will be a hell of a lot less of the of the Snr Officers and we still save money to use on other things! win win.

Yes the GOC had a lot to do with what has happened but the Military is just as guilty. It could put a stop to the bloat at NDHQ etc. I could put the money it spends on the 1000s of senior Officers who really dont have anything to do but have meetings. Why does the Infantry have no bullets or...

The military gets more than enough money to buy and do what we need with it. Just compare the money we get with other countries who are similar and see what they have in the inventory i.e. Australia and Spain. They seem too be able to buy equipment.

The military should not get a cent of money till it can clean up the mess that it has become. Get rid of all the bureaucracy and make the CDS a Colonel and down grade or fire anyone under that rank. We need a proper fighting force and actual Brigades (with equipment) so get rid of anyone who...