How big is the Army? How big is the CF? What about the DND civilians?

[2 Charlie]

MC, you are scaring me. As for the gun control law, I think a look at what was just imposed upon us, and what some of the alternatives are, well hmm, for a Liberal - I think my next vote is going else where.

So MC, why not post this in Current Affairs and let the size post be just that, because size matters.

2 Charlie,

 

[JRMACDONALD]

MUD- your statement on gun laws only prove to me ,and others , you know nothing about the laws in existance or proposed alternatives. as for the guns you "want", you‘ll be lucky to own a picture of them. please become better informed.

 

[JRMACDONALD]

MUD- your statement on gun laws only prove to me ,and others , you know nothing about the laws in existance or proposed alternatives. as for the guns you "want", you‘ll be lucky to own a picture of them. please become better informed.

 

[G I JAY]

THERE IS TOMUCH WRITING TO READ EVERYTHING YOU GUYS SAID SO I WILL JUST MAKE MY STATEMENT ABOUT THE ORIGONAL TOPIC.CANDAS ARMY WOULD BE BIGGER IF WE WERE LIKE THE U.S AND HAD COMERCAILS TRYING TO GET PEOPLE IN THE ARMY BUT IN CANDA WE HAVE NO COMMERCAILS ABOUT THE ARMY SO PEOPLE THINK THAT IT IS A WASTE OF TIME JOININH

 

[RCA]

What are planning to do Mud - what are planning to do - go postal. Your statements prove that this country needs effective gun control laws. There is absolutly no reason to own all that firepower.

I hope your not planning to join the forces beacuse you think it will be a blast to play with all sorts of neat weapons and and get to go on all the niffty super soldier course. It doesn‘t work that way. You will send the first part of your career -whether officer or NCM - of learning your basic soldiers skills (in your case inf) to become a well trained and effective infinteer. It invoves a lot of tedious work. Even in the Reg F you don‘t get as much field time as you would think.

I‘m just giving you a heads up beacuse I have a sneaking supision that you don‘t quite know what you are getting yourself into. By the way if you want to an officer you will ahve to make the decision soon, To become an officer from the ranks, you are basicly chosen not you chose.

Ubique

 

[G I JAY]

this thing is sweet know but anyway we need to find a way tio get or army bigger and better so if you have any ideas reply to this

 

[pat]

Well I won‘t comment on the other comments or points made beyond the original question. The largest complaint I have is that every one compares our size of military to every one else‘s which is wrong. The most common one that I hear is "look at how big the American army is."

Well the reason they are so large is that their trades are very specific. If you are a driver you are taught how to drive and operate a certain type of truck. That is why you get your name painted in the corner of the windshield.

As for here you are taught on several types of vehicles and on any given day you could be driving and iltis or an HLVW or any thing in between. Don‘t get me wrong, I fully agree that our numbers should be doubled (tripled if I had my way), I just wish every one would stop trying to compare our forces strength to other forces.

 

[colgan]

I was just watching the news it thay said that the toronto police force had more men(7700) than the army.Does anybody know the right numbers for the army,navy and airforce.

 

[Cdn Blackshirt]

Where can I find a current Canadian Army TOE????
Many thanks....



Matthew.    

 

[Da_man]

Troops, Organization & Equipment?

 

[OLD F of S]

      Table of  equipment


  I don't know your location but any unit in your area would have a TOE. I have only used them at Regt level. I am not sure one exists on a National basis if it does the only copy is likely in Ottawa.



            Cheers

 

[pbi]

Look in any copy of the 2004 Army DayTimer: your unit should have several copies.  Page 27 at the rear has a good breakdown of the structure of the Army.(There is alot of other good info in the Daytimer as well...) If you want to know detailed TOEs for each unit, check the Army Electronic Library under LFDTS on the Army site. Cheers.

 

[Cdn Blackshirt]

Yeah, I was looking for something similar to this:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/army/unit/toe/

I guess that means there isn't one online....



Matthew.   ???

 

[Fishbone Jones]

TO&E = Tables of Organization & Equipment

 

[P Kaye]

Does anybody know the current numbers for the total strength of the CF in terms of number of people in uniform?
How many are regular force vs reserve?
How many are Army vs Air vs Navy?

 

[M16]

The CF has about 60,000 members in the Regular Force and about 20,000 in the Primary Reserve Force. DND employs about 20,000 Public Servants.

 

[PViddy]

and about 55 000 Air/Army and Sea Cadets......that's scary!

 

[Scott]

Cadets are NOT included in the strength of the CF.

 

[PViddy]

I'm quite aware of that fact.  Posted, rather as a comparison.  Interesting tidbits if you will.

cheers

PV

 

[M16]

We have almost as many Cadets as we have regulars.  That is scary.

55 000 Cadets
100 000 CF/DND

I got the figures off of the defense site so its actual statistics.  I was kinda doubting that it's that small.