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Have you considered going in to the armoury and discussing training with personnel there?

Not from a social engineering context. If a member is mentally and physically fit, great. If a member has mental issues which are contributed to by the outlook of society, which undermine their ability to serve, the place to start "fixing" their issues isn't to start fixing society by enrolling...

I don't think I disagree with you very much. Deferring maintenance for the sake of saying "we don't have a deficit" or "look at me, I paid off the debt" is stupid. Having a plan for infrastructure spending in the long term is the smart way to go. Making late, costly triage decisions at the top...

Alberta has a cyclical economy. At high points, the cost of building infrastructure becomes ridiculously high, and it makes sense to defer it. There are many unsexy projects that it would make sense to fund and ramp up right now. One more notable one might be the twinning of highway 63, but...

Then expect not to be surprised. I've eaten at navy mess halls for weeks at a time, with menus just like those in army bases across the country. I know that you've skipped posts. Refer to Pusser's post about potatoes sometimes being the only vegetarian dish available; he's navy. Likewise, all...

Except that shouldn't be an option, as it compromises the mission. If I've got two troops to get two troops' worth of work done, including heavy labour, and the food isn't vegan, is it ok for my one vegan troop to just eat the crackers and apple from their box lunch? Maybe they get weak, maybe...

It blows my mind that the stars and bars flies at the state legislature.

I remember a mess dinner about three years back where the RSVPs had three meal options, beef/chicken/vegetarian, and one vegetarian private got her meal preference "satisfied" by just lots more side salad.

Rolling with the science fiction, this is making me think Harrison Bergeron. Everyone "normal". Forget representative politics, just have the average joe make national policy decisions. Society gets the government we deserve. EDIT: For clarity, I used sarcasm. I think that if our current...

I'm a Heinlein fan myself, but I have serious doubts about structuring a military around it being a test of citizenship. Service being two years or the duration of an emergency would default to a huge fraction of the junior leadership playing nursemaid to troops at a battleschool or at holding...

Or something along the lines of a Bomarc?

Great. Waste a huge fraction of the junior leadership as staff for a revolving battleschool, most of the graduates of which will release as soon as their initial, probably low, obligatory service ends. And whose numbers will include a considerable portion who don't want to be there in the first...

My only issue is with his constant interjection of himself into everything. Every episode feels like "Al Pacino told me not to namedrop, but..."

=armouries+training areas?

You posted that while I was opening a new one with "Does anyone else have an image of amalgamation potentially resulting in more HQ bloat?" Make three or so geographically-dispersed units an amalgamated regiment. Take the RSS/class B positions, put them into a pile, these belong to the...

Since even a class B private makes more than that in a month, wouldn't that clearly stay under the threshold criteria listed?

My example was from multiple Saturday training days, post-amalgamation. One CO, one RSM.

In principle, maybe. When the implementation ends up being three sub-units meeting at the most central location to conduct collective training (that was previously done on their own), driving everybody else 90 minutes, with breakdowns and holdups and coordination on site, orders are given, and...

Course calendar from your school.

Its an easy bone to toss to a narrow interest faction, garnering their support. Those sorts of bones would be different in a Canadian first-past-the-post system, but if non-critical trappings of the military were styled for the sake of support on important legislation, you can bet the party in...