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Pretty sure (although I may of course be wrong) that is also an old wives tale. But if I am wrong, do people really belief that any CDS, and especially this one, would agree to a raise as some kind of quid pro quo?

Umm...not sure that is a thing

Try and post a LCol or Maj to Toronto, or Vancouver etc....who will receive no CFHD at all as that is tied to your gross salary.

Still wondering about your experience with working outside the CAF? Seeing as your argument is mostly based on how good it is on the CAF compared to outside the CAF?

So sometimes command is about theatre. It is the theatre of command that we never really emphasise enough. Gen Leslie was being consistent with the approach he had used for a very long time, and to some considerable effect. Remember this is the fella that started the Army Run...and the same one...

Because that would add a lot of weight to your contention...

Just curious. Do you have a lot of first hand experience with working life outside the CAF? Upon which you can base your comparisons?

And that is the argument for keeping every single Reserve Unit. And never evolving. Or changing. Or even doing a though experiment as to how to become more relevant. Shrug. Change is scary. Status Quo kills

Bishop's enters the chat And a host of other universities in Canada who are not directly funded by the taxpayer, and who do not pay their students a salary

I was there for 10/90. I have said, on the record, that symmetrical brigades are indefensible. I served in a very famous Regiment that no longer exists: The Royal Green Jackets. The pressures on the larger institution demanded the amalgamation, and I heard some of the discussion amongst the...

I will be blunter. More beholden to that institution than THE institution, and will sacrifice the latter to protect the former.

Nice whataboutism. The MilCols should have been shut down a long time ago....but almost all of the decision makers over the last half century or more are products of said institutions. #VMI

That happened to me once or twice. I now write my answers to the questions etc in a Word doc, and then cut and paste....

In my experience (Iraq) it is a careful dance with many a fig leaf. In fact, I was one of those fig leaves...

With the added bonus of no Leahey vetting etc...

Real countries have hospital ships because they know that in order to protect their National interest they may have to put troops in harm's way. Fakey Smarmy Finger Wagging virtue signalling countries make noise about having one to save others and make the world a better place...and hope that...

Umm. Before we go all high-minded and mock the foreigner....any thoughts on Canada's Strategic Policy, and the interest it has garnered amongst our politicians, press, academics, and military professionals? Oh that's right. We are not a serious country, and so we have no serious conversations...

#DM #CFO #Makenodecisions #milleaderswithoutabackbone

This highlights one of the things that Canada and the US share. We both have violent failing democracies to our immediate south

Wx and 3VP?