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If we buy 20 CB90s and crew them, then face an ASW threat in blue water, will you admit your pet project was a waste? That's still a police job/problem. A few FPVs/USVs is a terrorism threat, not a job for the CAF writ large. The RCN maintains a MCM capability, one of the unsexy capabilities...

Between the German subs, and GDLS unveiling a LAV based SPG... I'm pretty sure they have read the writing on the wall. Canada is not open for business. Rather than position ourselves as an indespensible partner in the Pacific, we have gone full "small Canada", and decided to be Jr. partners...

"Sir" or "Ma'am" is pretry much always safe. If they are navy, "Chief". If you're not sure "MWO" is also safe, at worst a Chief will tell you they're a Chief. Having briefly been an MWO, can confirm they are not people.

Tell that to the government that decided the RegF should only be 70K, and the MND who decided the CA should eat most of those numbers... There are more tools in the tool shed than just CPFs and subs. There are various small boats, up to and including the Orcas and remaining MCDVs. The various...

Because Victoria is so far away... CAF responses are intelligence driven, for anything routine it's the police that hold that responsibility. It's akin to being upset that Vancouver Fire doesn't have a armed tactical team to deal with hostage situations. When there is a threat, the RCN send...

Is it lack of strategic thinking, or is it restraint in the face of budgets that were insufficient for the capabilities we already had? When you can't fix the boats you already own, you don't go out there asking for more boats. When you can't afford to keep tanks and GBAD, you don't go asking...

That's completely untrue, because some of the qualifications exist only in Reg occupations. They don't have Res versions, because the training required doesn't mesh with part-time service. The new trades will require Res sailors to do full-time service to advance past the lowest levels of the...

I'm guessing the RCN hasn't been interested in it, because they aren't normally tasked with patrolling internal Canadian waterways. Most of the sailing on the inside passages out West is training sails, not patrols. The RCN's interest might change with the way the RCN managed trades are...

We are already running into this problem, in a big way. I have a department of 70 with 6 C&PO's (including myself) and one D level NWO to run it, the rest are Jr pers who need a ship to train aboard. As much as we have complained about not having enough people to sail our ships, we are now...

The group that lead to this whole foolishness happening was Cambridge University, for picking him and shoving him into the limelight when there were some questionable claims tied to his achievements.

You seem to be going out of your way to interpret this who scenario in the worst way possible. Nobody was a human sacrifice... There was a threat. The POTUS was shifted to a different aircraft because of the threat. If the threat was serious enough that it was likely the aircraft would be...

Except, that's not how it works. Making it obvious that the POTUS wasn't on the plane would have created new security issues. I get it. Nobody likes to know they are just a number, but for 99.9% of humanity it's reality. The people on that jet should have known that, so I don't buy the...

If you're travelling around with anyone important and think you're as important as them, that delusion is on you... I don't get the hay people are trying to make of that situation. It would have been the same if it was HM The King, or PMMC. The others are less important than the leader... Not...

If we are about to get into something gnarly, for the first few tours we can count on young men lining-up to prove to themselves they can do it. By year two or three we might need to start rounding up the others with white feathers, or other means.

This is a Jamry-ism, that leads to people not interested in the army being a bit put-off or disillusioned by training. This is part of the reason the RCN started it's own BMQ, and I suspect the RCAF will follow in due course. Jarmy-isms lead to dumb things like living in tents and dressing like...

In the current security environment, expect those sorts of activities to start disappearing. The CAF is slowly waking-up to the reality of the modern world, and is looking to make bases more secure. Having a few hundred randos show-up at the gates armed for an event is not really in line with...

America is often times more interested in maintaining their presence than the host nation is in having them... Alienating allies is what got the usage of bases restricted in the first place. Further alienating allies is asking for host nations to invite America to leave. Particularly if the...

Interesting training, compensation, and maybe some form of "bling" for fancy civilian occasions. Free range membership alone is not going to attract the kind of people we need.

The cadet programme exists to generate interest in the CAF, and develop the leaders of tomorrow. So yes, the cost is worth it. Could the programme be improved? Obviously. Realistically, the cadet programme is the closest most Canadians will ever come to the CAF. If we cut it, we will lose...