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As a company commander I had a Sgt wanting to deploy to Afghanistan whose full time job was working for the base in Ottawa. The GoC policy at the time was "You shall let Res F members go for deployments". The base commander personally refused his request. Eventually we got it sorted, but yes...

The long time uniformed personnel doing that with the CAF are often the class B lifers. On the Army side, many seem to be folks who'd never survive the Reg F and lack professional and or social skills for outside employment. They're also incentivized to play games rather than take an...

DND lacks internal understanding of their own business, making it challenging at best to be responsive to government. Being able to articulate problems needs a program understanding that most operators do not have (nor should they - that's not why / how they're trained and focused).

Look, on the plus side, it's not a LockMart product.

So... Canada is destroying itself by letting millions into the country. The only way for millions of people to enter a country is over a land border. Han Island is uninhabited. Therefore, Canada has a problem with its land neighbour having a lack of border control...

I suspect that the move of business panning at the Departmental level from VCDS to ADM Fin is behind this. ADM Fin is notorious for not realizing that other L1s are much larger and ore complex than their own minor satrapy, and bringing in last minute demands that are unreasonable and...

Pretty sure the Turks have surgery for that, too.

Where are the quotes around "member"?

Now I'm no business man, but I'd think that if I try in public to get a better price from another supplier then return with my tail between my legs that I'm not in a position to try to negotiate pricing.

That's at the NDHQ level. So th funds then flow to Navy / Army / Air Force and all the rest. What the various Level 1 organizations do with their baseline vs in year funding is up to them. Unfortunately.

On the plus side: during an election campaign, the caretake convention means that the good idea fairies are making promises, not actually doing the stupid things they're promising.

DND's normal budget cycle relies on carrying forward underspending from the prior year to address non-baseline adjustments/requirements in the next year. So if the department didn't spend $100 in 25/26, that $100 will be pulled into 26/27 and used to cover new /emergent issues raised during the...

A modern Logan's Run would just be a Leonardo DiCaprio dating site.

Further enshittification.

Traditional C Suite behaviours aren't meritocratic either.

An organisation dominated by Europeans is heavily bureaucratic?

This is how I imagine you. https://www.dailysabah.com/sports/turkiyes-yusuf-dikecs-iconic-pose-takes-sports-world-by-storm/news

Just order this from Amazon, then get an extra large double-double. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N34X8D6?ref=clp_hp_h_pc

Stairway to... Gilligan's Island?

Legit pipeline issue, or semi-legit pipeline issue being leveraged to force Europe's hand and draw them into the Hormuz stalemate?