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Which does raise the issue of differentiating between armoured mech - Pumas, CV90 and the like (level 4-6) - and armoured mech folks in Senators and BvS10s (level 2-4). I'll leave the sorting out of this to the infantry. I always did get a kick out of the PPC-Light-I running around in 30 tonne...

I'm a great fan of those myself and for the life of me could never understand why the army hasn't replaced the 50-60 some odd of the 206s that we ash-canned. I think we have about a dozen or so left and no idea how good a shape they are in. I always thought they should be equipping all the light...

As ought to be obvious from reading the results of various campaigns/wars since WW2 everyone has been poorly structured for the next conflict. The best plan is to take a best shot at preparing for the more probable but keep something in your back pocket for the less probable. There's a very...

I was going to make an earlier comment about the B Ech being irrelevant in any event. We're really talking 2nd and 3rd line logistics support . . . and even 1st line A Ech when you look at the cockamamy NSE structure that typified the early to mid Op Athena consolidation of all combat service...

The two aren't mutually exclusive. 🍻

It ought to be a big one. We need to aim to on-shore all military equipment production. 🍻

You know, I like Ford but I wish he and others would shut up with the infantile poking the bear crap. It just riles him up and he has no boundaries. By all means on January 21, 2029 strip the Trump name from everything. Until then be the better man. 🍻

I guess that depends on what time frame you look at and which army. Back in WW2, Canadian infantry brigades were routinely supported by divisional artillery field regiments, engineers field companies, a brigade service company, a field ambulance, a brigade RCEME workshop and its LADs,. If you...

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...