Army Reserve Restructuring

[Kirkhill]

Reading about Carney, he wants to likely have a strong military to back up Canada's soft powerr to be a true middle power. If he can stay in long enough to pull it off, we will be talking about half a million canadians under arms. Which would make Canada by 2040 the 3rd largest force in NATO potentially. I do hope to see such a thing happen but a lot needs to change first

Half a million Canadians willing and able to bear arms is not the same as half a million under arms. 400,000 of those could be doing their day jobs at Tim Hortons, waiting for the call.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Well we have 70,000 people applying each year, if you are willing to drop standards and take risks on people, we could stream some of those into a 2 year fulltime program as basic soldiers/responders and have them on a 10 year callup list.

 

[Kirkhill]

Well we have 70,000 people applying each year, if you are willing to drop standards and take risks on people, we could stream some of those into a 2 year fulltime program as basic soldiers/responders and have them on a 10 year callup list.

At this stage I would drop standards to create a separate category of those willing to engage but not commit. Maybe some of those can be convinced to upgrade themselves to more active candidates. In the mean time more people are familiar with the institution.

 

[MilEME09]

Well we have 70,000 people applying each year, if you are willing to drop standards and take risks on people, we could stream some of those into a 2 year fulltime program as basic soldiers/responders and have them on a 10 year callup list.

Standards isnt the problem, the process taking 12 months plus is

 

[markppcli]

My point is that your 45.5 day calendar under estimates the training opportunity.

Also, leaving training in the hands of 200 discrete sections of 11 (one per unit) seems to be at best inefficient and also likely to produce highly variable results. Especially if those 11 are expected to prepare their own lesson plans and schedules and source training areas and materials while managing individual training for people of at least two skill levels (eg year 1 and year 2) as well as organizing collective training for each of the various arms.

Does CADTC provide one single text/workbook that the new entry can work through and to which the instructors can supervise and teach?

I remember being given a bunch of pams and being told there were many more in the system. I was then taught Methods of Instruction and how to build a lesson plan and told to carry on. The unit instructors got the same instruction and support.

And the RSS consisted of a Capt and WO. The WO's vocabulary often seemed to collapse to "DILLIGAS, Sir!"

It would be nice to think that CADTC had got round to creating standard courses that worked within the bounds of the Class A schedule.

Yes we’ve had army electronic library for around two decades now, and all course information including master lesson plans are available for all army courses. That said what your describing is essentially home schooling and most army stuff is fairly hands on, I don’t think it suits a read the text book model very well.

 

[markppcli]

Well we have 70,000 people applying each year, if you are willing to drop standards and take risks on people, we could stream some of those into a 2 year fulltime program as basic soldiers/responders and have them on a 10 year callup list.

If they wanted to, in the trades they want, etc. let’s bear in mind in that 70k figure there’s everyone who created a login for the CAF recruiting process. I’d be curious to see how many actually finalize a package - I’d bet it’s around half.

 

[Kirkhill]

Yes we’ve had army electronic library for around two decades now, and all course information including master lesson plans are available for all army courses. That said what your describing is essentially home schooling and most army stuff is fairly hands on, I don’t think it suits a read the text book model very well.

So they are readily available to all instructors at all armouries then.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

If they wanted to, in the trades they want, etc. let’s bear in mind in that 70k figure there’s everyone who created a login for the CAF recruiting process. I’d be curious to see how many actually finalize a package - I’d bet it’s around half.

Well you could turn a bunch of these 2 year term soldiers into ceremonial troops, who get good at drill and take the ceremonial stuff away from people with really valuable trades. Basically treat them a bit like conscripts with basic training and doing stuff the army needs doing but can't spare the bodies for currently.

 

[Kirkhill]

Is Emergency Preparedness part of the remit of the proposed reserves?

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[FJAG]

The point where this all loses credibility is the issue of gear. From basic uniforms and weapons (even for a home guard) there needs to be a fairly robust logistics system and infrastructure in place. Then start adding on vehicles, ammunition (and its TDMs) heavy guns and tanks etc etc. And that's before you ramp up the nay, air force and space and cyber.

Visuals do it for me. If someone can show me an org chart for where the vision is going then I'll start to believe that they actually have a plan. If all they say is "we'll grow to (and, I presume, sustain) 400,000 then I stay highly skeptical.