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The 511 map says its data set is Google Maps and yet on Google Maps its Lake Ontario. Go figure. :(

Those took a while to get to us. In 2 RCHA we were slinging L5s under Hueys and the C1s under Voyageurs until 1976 before they were given to the navy and turned into Labradors. It's quite clear that they increased tactical mobility. Remember this was the Vietnam era and aviation was shiny and...

I didn't say that. I said it would not do a direct fire support role after dismount. I didn't say it would stop doing its job. No. I expect that while it has troops on board and is moving that it uses its systems in self defence. Where the line is drawn is its positioning in defence or the...

That's the point, isn't it. Its already a "brigade" without needing to grow anything except maybe a sigs sqn for the brigade headquarters. I'm not sure if the "regiment" has a sigs element or just some staff wienees. 🍻

I won't double down on this. My experience is with M113s-which are about as two-man crewed as it gets-and Marders-which weren't. One was battlefield taxis the other as IFV. And yes, doctrine. Even for the M113 the doctrine in my day was ridiculously permissive: Yes, the doctrine stated folks...

I wasn't trying to imply that we were more flexible. In fact quite the opposite. There was a regular rhythm that we had with every year's training plan which always started in Sep and wound down in Jun. We simply took the operational tasking in stride. Life was fairly stable for our folks with...

2 1/2 months service with brand new pips on my shoulders and I was commanding my troop of armed gunners with live ammo in the streets of Montreal. No MRP, just a flight in and a 1/2 hour briefing from a JAG in a large hanger where half of the 700 of us that were there couldn't hear what was...

I'd be surprised if it didn't what with our continued 1st Air Cav wishful thinking. Lord, if I had a nickel for every helicopter exercise we had and every ride I took . . . Have I ever told you how much I hated hitching guns to Voyageurs in winter? The only air assault operation mounted in...

I presume that it has a commander when moving but just needs a crew of two - driver and gunner - to operate the vehicle and weapon system when its dismounts have left. I'm presuming, but don't know for sure, that what it has is a one man weapon station. Overwatching for aircraft on a radar and...

Did you notice who the executive-director and co-founder is? You know during my 12 years in the RegF in the 70s early 80s we got along quite well without managed readiness. We all knew readiness was shitty after the APS and that it would take us into late Oct, early Nov to get back in the...

You know when I went to the old army command and staff course and used Corps 86 as a model, doctrine actually was easy and made sense. The fact that the Corps 86 structure bore no resemblance to what we had on the ground confused a lot of folks but if you frame things in the aspirational then...

I don't think that it ever was. I went to 3 RCHA in 1970 and we were in 1 CIBG at the time but changed to 1 Combat Gp shortly after. I think 3 was 3 CMBG until the end (It had M109s, M113s and Centurions). I think 2 CIBG actually went light and became 2 CG a few years before we did in the 1st. 5...

IMHO at least one but no more than two of the section carriers in each platoon ought to have this turret instead of the 25mm Bushmaster one. It reduces the crew to two - takes the turret mechanics out of the hull and leaves more room for dismounts and ammo. Big win all around. We could do the...

Just a little speculation on my part. When I joined in 65, there was a 3rd Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Gagetown It was a mechanized brigade tasked to reinforce/sustain 4 CMBG in Germany. It was dissolved during the 1968 -70 RegF slaughter in favour of an Airborne Regt and 5 Combat Group...

Not sure if your comment riffs off my comments or @Kirkhill's. I assume @Kirkhill, but still there's an issue to discuss. The Geography is clearly vastly different. That's blindingly obvious. As is the complication that creates from pipelines to power transmission systems to key manufacturing...

Whenever I look at the air defence problem for Canada I can't help returning to the SM-3. With a range of some 1,200 kms and its Mk 41 VLS I see it as a viable solution based out of ships on the coasts and a centrally AEGIS Ashore and a couple of GBAD batteries spread around Sask and NW Ontario...

If we need/want 70mm rockets then this is certainly something we should build domestically. 🍻

It's interesting to watch. I haven't seen too much in recent organizational changes but here was this one from three years ago and another that discussed the downsizing of battalions from close to 1,000 to roughly 880. We always consider the division to be the place where one transitions from...