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Wish they'd had any of these programs when I transferred from RegF to ARes to go to law school. Tuition and all fees and books ran at about $2,500 per year in those days. Best money I ever spent but a little help from the CAF would have been appreciated. These look like great programs. For...

I'm pretty sure that this isn't the last word on this case. The issue of what constitutes a "loss" isn't the relevant part here. I think it has more to do with the word "governed" v "guide." At the end of the day, payments out of the fund for losses are discretionary "Governed" may have been a...

Now, that I agree with 100%. We learn as much from trying and failing as we do from succeeding. We do have R&D but there's never enough and never enough trials and evaluations either. Ukraine's situation truly is one where necessity is the mother of invention. 🍻

I take the point on the use of UUVs. It makes sense. OTOH, I'm not sure why one would go to a STUFT if one could develop smallish purpose-built UUV mine hunting tender ships to move and deploy them. In the long run it should make control and training them easier. 🍻

Not a sailor but I can do math. Not having two JSS per coast simply doesn't make sense if preparing for a wartime scenario. Ships will be lost or at best go down mechanically. You can't run two fleets on two (three) coasts thousands of kilometres apart with one ship. You might get away with that...

Sometimes one has to throw a lot of crap against the wall to see what sticks and what slides down. As I said, it's effectiveness takes a lot more evaluation than we can do here based on the odd article dragged off the internet. It's only "now moving towards series production," meaning that...

Many of those won't be reusable as they will be destroyed enroute to their target and I expect the cost of one of these munitions will be equal to or more expensive than a guided cannon-launched projectile. It would take better study then we can do on this forum to determine the usefulness of...

In short and IMHO, No! There's a world of difference as to air self defence, which should be decentralized and broadly deployed using people who are trained to operate in the units they belong to but also have limited air defence training beyond their own weapon and subunit and area air defence...

I agree that a degree of selection is required but even in mud gunnery there are skill tiers. Not everyone is cut out to be an OP or FSCC tech or less a det commander. There are recruiting selection tests (assuming they are back in vogue now) that will determine who has the skills. And not...

She hasn't lost the licence but merely has had it suspended. That's a step short of disbarment. Unfortunately these cases aren't unique. During my years as a bencher we dealt with many of them. In most cases its because folks get so far behind and are so busy that they lose focus on what is...

Yes to all. Yes to all again. - IAMD 🍻

This I'd like as an RWS on quite a few armoured systems. I note that there is a Bullfrog M2 for the 12.7mm and a range of 1,500 m. Every SP should have one. Also a Bullfrog 230 with a 30mm under development. 🍻

I think that when one starts to address the issue of air defence at the scale we now have to deal with it then there is no longer a need to have air defence gunners keep their hand in mud gunnery. AD has a need to develop skills all of its own from command and control to sensors to effectors to...

I currently have a primarily RegF light airborne brigade as part of the central Canada DOC div with a primary role up north and a secondary role as Canada's QRF. I'm toying with the idea of putting it in the GS Div. In '72 when I was in 3 RCHA in Wainwright, we worked together with the Brits'...

I wouldn't say Defence of Canada per se but still a viable system. We currently have enough M777s for 4 batteries and enough LG1s for three. I won't count the C3s other than as saluting base guns. With the number of M777s and G1s, we have enough guns for two regiments (or maybe three if you...

While rewriting "Unsustainable" and looking at reserve forces to compare to beyond the US and UK, I looked at several others and it became clear that for the most part they all have a form of SuppRes which in most cases is mandatory and part and parcel to the initial enrollment form, statutory...

That's my thought. IMHO, a division is a tactical entity and needs to me smaller, leaner and faster. I think the same about the brigade. The difference is that the brigade has the means and tactics to fight the close battle directly with its battlegroups while the division has the means and...

2008, damn it! 2008! First Danish now 2008! :(

Here you go mate. That one's at a the RCA museum. The rest were in storage in Montreal as late as 3008. Don't know where they went after that. Do you wonder why I get cynical at times. :(