Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

[KevinB]

Re the 300,000 and organization.

I. Recruit the 300,000 willing.
2. Organize them after they have been recruited and their skills and availability evaluated.

That makes zero sense.

You need to know what you need in order to recruit and train.

300k is an enormous jump for the CAF.
A lot of effort needs to be put into to planning what to do with that number of personnel.
Lot of infrastructure and equipment will need to be acquired and planned out even before the first recruit is sworn in.

 

[childs56]

Re the 300,000 and organization.

I. Recruit the 300,000 willing.
2. Organize them after they have been recruited and their skills and availability evaluated.

Then you loose 299,999 of those people because as always the money for wages will dry up, no rifles/ equipment to train with, no trucks to drive, no fuel to put into the trucks and the list goes on and on. Then you have 299,999 people telling 4 or 5 others how much of a crap show it is and now you are into over a million people with credible knowledge of how bad it is. You might end up with a 20,000 of that million saying it cant be that bad. Until they try it out themselves and decide wow this sucks.

Sorry but it is time the Canadian Military either gets serious or hands the keys over to the US or other allies for our defense. I hear Greenland is nice this time of Year.

 

[Eaglelord17]

In Vietnam the average age of an American soldier was, famously, 19.
In WW2 the average age of a frontline Canadian soldier was 22.
In Ukraine the average age of a frontline soldier is 43 to 45 years old.

Vietnams average age was 22-23, Hardcastle lied to you in the catchiest way possible.

 

[mariomike]

In WW2 the average age of a frontline Canadian soldier was 22.

Any idea what it was for the other services?

My father joined the RCN when he was 17 in 1943.

Served as an Engine Room Articifer's Apprentice on HMCS FUNDY ( J88 ), HMCS LOCKEPORT ( J100 ), HMCS UNGAVA ( J149 ), HMCS FORT ERIE ( K670 ) during the war.

My uncle was 21 when he was KIA with the RCAF over France.