Young KH said:But I am having fun. And you guys are talking but if My ideas are so wrong Please set me right with better ideas Please I want and need to know how the ARMY can be (fixed is not the right word) bettered.
But to set all of you to tasks I have mentioned that my knowledge is at best TV News and can only draw from my time in the Army witch was more then a few years ago. All the information in the world will not make me think that it was a good idea to get out of tanks or to cut the ground troops back to where they sit now. So all the giving me heck for lack of fact is great but meaningless if all you have is fact and no suggestions. Or am I wrong in thinking that no one can dispute that the numbers of Infantry are too low for the tasks at hand.
Sorry if I made anybodies blood pressure go up but sometimes you have to shake it up a bit to get answers.
Young KH said:OK
My believes are:
Infantry to increase to pre 1960 numbers. Support to increase as needed
Armored corps to have Tanks again, type unknown.
Navy to have Transport capacity for troops and equipment.
Airforce to have Transport planes for troops and equipment.
Coast Guard to be increased to the point where they can take over coastal watch/ Air and sea rescue.
No granted this is very simplistic and without any tec facts but as you can see I am not proposing any cuts to anyone.
When I was in the Army I felt that there were not enough postings, however the tasks that the modern army is being asked to do seem (YES TO ME) to be a bit over whelming and in my opinion does not leave enough room for error on the home front.
I don't feel that this is radical and I do believe that with double figures billons of budget surpluses that it is doable. So shot me.
Old Sweat said:Having said earlier than I am not very knowledgeable about the current army, I will now prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt. It seems to me that as a first step we should aim to bring units up to a proper war establishment, which in the case of the infantry would be four rifle companies per battalion. I would also like to see the CSS world separate base and field functions, eg a base establishment and a service battalion as two distinct units.
It may be that this is in the works. If so, good.
As a next step, I would like to see a bunch of smart folks design a structure to maintain two deployed battlegroups, perhaps with a brigade headquarters, in a hostile environment for a protracted period. With this as an objective there no doubt would be a number of solutions, which then could be war-gamed.
hehehehehehehehehe not so nicely put but also valad. Nice to see some opinions now.KevinB said:Young KH,
Who are these phantom voices? The troops tell you... which troops?
I am HERE to tell you what troops want at least from my perspective as a 031 Cpl.
Training - more of it, and more innovative an relevant.
REAL Missions - which we now have.
What more could and Infantryman want - but a chnace to train and then DO.
Sure we could use many things - but fiscal reality is we will never have a Carrier Airwing or a Nuclear Sub Fleet let alone a 1 Cdn Army force. You seem to be from the HRDC mindset of lets through money and bodies at it - well we have neither - so we need a force structure that works - your ideas are starrey eyed and rose coloured.
Stick in the here and now. Half the units around WASTE tons of money on bullshit rental vehcile for brass etc can drive in style - or waste thousands in sloppy excercises with no clear point (like validating yourself on doctrine you've designed :). Or getting a Officer with no shmick trying to teach urban ops rather than qualified urban ops instructor NCO's. Proving himself and his chain that put him there RTFO.
Stick that in your too PC pipe and smoke it.
I'm tuning you into ignore mode until you have something worthwhile, and I'm not holding my breath.
If that browns people off, Tough, learn to live with it.
My mistake, but it sure seems at times that there are no one out there with any opinions and when someone dares to make one, that there are hundreds of Snippers waiting to pick any statement word by word instead of looking at the content, and what was actually meant.
and I'll add mine as a 031.KevinB said:I am HERE to tell you what troops want at least from my perspective as a 031 Cpl.
yepTraining - more of it.. more innovative and relevant.
most of all. To go out and do the damn job!REAL Missions - which we now have.
and this sort of fiscal irresponsibility is found in every unit across the nation, at every level.Half the units around WASTE tons of money on bullshit rental vehcile for brass etc can drive in style - or waste thousands in sloppy excercises with no clear point (like validating yourself on doctrine you've designed ). Or getting a Officer with no shmick trying to teach urban ops rather than qualified urban ops instructor NCO's.
paracowboy said:. All the crap we do in Canada is just practicing. The job is out there.