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

[QV]

They are literally the least desired postings beyond FN’s now. They are runnings 20-30% vacancy and posting GIS positions 5 or 6 times in those places- nevermind the front line positions.

No members are signing up for a military base.

How’s recruiting going for you now?

 

[Booter]

Poorly. And they certainly aren’t signing up to go overseas. International policing is struggling hard (for a variety of reasons) . These aren’t the fellas that signed up when asked during the second world war. .

 

[RangerRay]

Wait - was he a Freedom Fighter or a Terrorist?

Where I live now, he’s considered a Father of Confederation. I’m not sure how someone who took up arms against the Confederation can also be considered a father of it too…

 

[RedFive]

Poorly. And they certainly aren’t signing up to go overseas. International policing is struggling hard (for a variety of reasons) . These aren’t the fellas that signed up when asked during the second world war. .

Weird. Its almost like the further we get from the Afghanistan "you will go out with the ANP, ANA and their CAF mentors and take the fight to the enemy" days of international missions, and the more we focus on "we need to send women on this mission because optics" the less interest and uptake there is.

I also know a non-zero number of Mounties who went and did that, and fought shoulder to shoulder with CAF OMLT team members and their mentees who were then denied the GCS that people who never left KAF got, because the CAF decided the RCMP was "civilian only".

There is absolutely still a core of RCMP members who can and will step up to the plate if the bell gets rung and the gloves come off, but the number grows smaller by the day.

 

[brihard]

Poorly.

Is the issue the number of applicants, the inability to process them in a timely manner, or both? Or something else in terms of where recruits actually go on graduation? I’d gotten the sense that there’s no shortage of people applying, but that the perennial problem of how long it takes to process them hasn't been sorted, and so other police services snap many up before RCMP can hire.

I’d also been given to understand that the ‘return to your home province’ offer that’s been advertised for some years now may be causing major issues for the prairies who just don’t have as many people proportionately signing up.

Wild that a job where you hit six figures at a year in is struggling to hire…

 

[ytz]

For coastal defense using Anti-ship missiles mounted on trucks, you just need a series of surveyed pads connected to a road network. Your sensor net tells the Battery Commander where they need to relocate to. It will be the sensor net that tells it where and when to fire and then likley corrects for the last part of the flight.
It could possibly free up a ship for other tasks or give them a larger magazine depth to draw upon. Likely will never have to shot in anger, but that is part of a successful coastal defence, making the price of attacking to high.

You army guys are so obsessed with getting toys that you refuse to understand how our sea control system works. We do our best to detect, classify and sometimes even intercept ships thousands of km from our shores. If it's a military threat? A coastal launcher will not be as quick to respond or have the range of a P-8, F-35 or MQ-9. If we're at the point where we need a coastal defence battery to drive up to a pad to fire off a missile with 500 km of range at most, something has seriously gone wrong.

Also, unless the ROEs change and we're now going the American route of blowing up dinghies indiscriminately, the government generally wants us to actually support law enforcement doing the boarding and detaining part. Blowing them up isn't the first priority.

 

[Remius]

Is the issue the number of applicants, the inability to process them in a timely manner, or both? Or something else in terms of where recruits actually go on graduation? I’d gotten the sense that there’s no shortage of people applying, but that the perennial problem of how long it takes to process them hasn't been sorted, and so other police services snap many up before RCMP can hire.

Time to process is definitely an issue. A lot of applicants have multiple applications with other services and get scooped up first with a more definitive offer on where they are going and what they will be going.

I’d also been given to understand that the ‘return to your home province’ offer that’s been advertised for some years now may be causing major issues for the prairies who just don’t have as many people proportionately signing up.

Managing expectations is not a strength right now. The magic bag of finding out half way through your training where you will end up is an issue.

Wild that a job where you hit six figures at a year in is struggling to hire…

Other six figure jobs are offering more concrete things up front in better places.

Rumoured changes to the CRA will probably help a bit but won’t address the other issues.

 

[Rifleman62]

At least the 11 year old, 1 billion dollar project for the Light Armoured Vehicle Reconnaissance Surveillance System is on schedule and going well.

You can goggle the latest (2 Oct) which cannot be posted here.

A $1 billion procurement project has run into serious technical problems = a possible cancellation.

 

[Kirkhill]

You army guys are so obsessed with getting toys that you refuse to understand how our sea control system works. We do our best to detect, classify and sometimes even intercept ships thousands of km from our shores. If it's a military threat? A coastal launcher will not be as quick to respond or have the range of a P-8, F-35 or MQ-9. If we're at the point where we need a coastal defence battery to drive up to a pad to fire off a missile with 500 km of range at most, something has seriously gone wrong.

Also, unless the ROEs change and we're now going the American route of blowing up dinghies indiscriminately, the government generally wants us to actually support law enforcement doing the boarding and detaining part. Blowing them up isn't the first priority.

Rules of Engagement are subject to change. Hopefully in timely manners.

And is this 5600 km rocket launched vehicle, that is driven to a pad and launched from a trailer, an army toy? Or is it an air force toy? It has many of the attributes and capabilities of the MQ-9Bs. It can be used to sink dinghies. Or it can be used to circle an oil tanker in distress.

Or is it in Canada's future at all? Does either service want to engage with them?

 

[MilEME09]

You can goggle the latest (2 Oct) which cannot be posted here.

A $1 billion procurement project has run into serious technical problems = a possible cancellation.

those in the know have been reporting for weeks its dead, that latestest is probably two weeks behind

 

[brihard]

Rumoured changes to the CRA will probably help a bit but won’t address the other issues.

What’s this about?

 

[Remius]

What’s this about?

Increasing the cadet recruit allowance

 

[IKnowNothing]

those in the know have been reporting for weeks its dead, that latestest is probably two weeks behind

Makes the seemingly sudden emergence of MCAV make more sense- RCAC needs vehicles, and if the 66 it was imminently waiting on aren't showing up...

 

[Kirkhill]

We Don't Need a New Force Design, or National Strategy

...we need a national understanding

cdrsalamander.substack.com

Disregarding the power difference our geopolitical strategic positions are close approximations of each other, if not identical.

We are less than 1800 km from Russia over international waters.

 

[Booter]

Is the issue the number of applicants, the inability to process them in a timely manner, or both? Or something else in terms of where recruits actually go on graduation? I’d gotten the sense that there’s no shortage of people applying, but that the perennial problem of how long it takes to process them hasn't been sorted, and so other police services snap many up before RCMP can hire.

I’d also been given to understand that the ‘return to your home province’ offer that’s been advertised for some years now may be causing major issues for the prairies who just don’t have as many people proportionately signing up.

Wild that a job where you hit six figures at a year in is struggling to hire…

It’s a mix. There are people applying- I’ll give you a vague example. A division brought in four recruits during a class- three had restrictions of where they could be posted- family medical and religious access and one got a small spot, that one left before graduating because of the post,

That is anecdotal. But the numbers are- there is a slow slide to vacancy everywhere except the hubs- and those hubs also have vacancy where there has historically been none.

There is also the whole- “just recruit more” but the lower the experience the longer the work takes- the more toll it takes- the higher the burnout- leading to more complaints and conduct which leads to shorter careers….we are getting seriously shortened healthy periods from people.

RCMP sick leave cases climb 184% in 15 years, sparking calls for reform

The number of RCMP officers on long-term sick leave has surged by 184 per cent over the past 15 years, according to a report from the RCMP Management Advisory Board (MAB).

www.ctvnews.ca

And the number is growing- and in that 1700 members that are off long term- they are by and large frontline slots not sitting in HQs and district offices….

So the more detachments like say the ones that are functionally below 50% staffing- they are burning out the officers left behind…who don’t have the experience to possibly make it through the posting off their knowledge and know how.

Recruiting does one job, but it doesn’t do all the jobs we need- there is such a hot market for experienced rcmp members that you’ve got a brain drain at 15 years to really Gucci jobs elsewhere.

We get experienced officers. We poach some experienced leadership. But again- those are filling up the front line in the spots that are drying up.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Anything coming for Prince Rupert/Vancouver also looks like it's coming for Seattle.

Anything coming for our east coast ports also looks like it's coming for US northeast ports.

Land-based coastal defence has a business case, just like every other potential capability, but it should be way, way down on the to-do list.

 

[PrairieFella]

Makes the seemingly sudden emergence of MCAV make more sense- RCAC needs vehicles, and if the 66 it was imminently waiting on aren't showing up...

Whether its CAV LAV or something like Ajax/Ares, it cant come soon enough. We're in pretty dire straits VOR wise. At least a mech infanteer can train light inf drills when the lavs are down, no such luck armour side.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Whether its CAV LAV or something like Ajax/Ares, it cant come soon enough. We're in pretty dire straits VOR wise. At least a mech infanteer can train light inf drills when the lavs are down, no such luck armour side.

We have precedents...