Indirect Fires Modernization Project - C3/M777 Replacement

[PrairieFella]

The Army Reserve needs to lose a lot of its history and embrace the future instead.

Units need to have training areas within reasonable proximity. There needs to be a force structure designed for outputs, not perpétuation of fictional tales of heroism from the world wars. There needs to be institutional commitment to members, and member commitment to the institution.

Why? Why demoralize the Reserves even further without tangible benefit? There's no kit, no institutional support, limited training budgets, crumbling infrastructure, a lack of communications equipment, poor quality personal kit and few plans for actually addressing this for the next decade but the problem is reservists need to embrace the future and ditch the history (whatever that means)?

My brother in Christ, the only thing holding together most combat arms reserve units is esprit de corps and Ottawa seems to like it that way. Cheap.

 

[dapaterson]

Montreal is three hours from Valcartier. Toronto two hours from Borden.

Vancouver? Train infantry, sustainers and Provost Corps.

It's not rocket science. Perpetuation of generations of failure should not be the go to solution.

 

[ytz]

Why? Why demoralize the Reserves even further without tangible benefit? There's no kit, no institutional support, limited training budgets, crumbling infrastructure, a lack of communications equipment, poor quality personal kit and few plans for actually addressing this for the next decade but the problem is reservists need to embrace the future and ditch the history (whatever that means)?

My brother in Christ, the only thing holding together most combat arms reserve units is esprit de corps and Ottawa seems to like it that way. Cheap.

You don't need to get rid of unit history. But there's no reason the role should be so firmly rooted in history. If a former armour unit needs to become a transport unit so be it. We have RCAF squadrons flying transports that used to be bomber squadrons and a helicopter squadron that used to be a fighter squadron.

I also think the pride of your branches suffers because your regiments are so big. Each of the infantry regiments need to be broken up so that each of the battalions ends up a regiment in its own right. This way your unit ID becomes like it is in the air force or army and your branch affiliation becomes more important. Just like it it for most of the CAF.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Montreal is three hours from Valcartier. Toronto two hours from Borden.

Vancouver? Train infantry, sustainers and Provost Corps.

It's not rocket science. Perpetuation of generations of failure should not be the go to solution.

Vancouver troops spend most of their time on exercise in Chilliwack pretending to be fighting in the Fulda Gap on tiny postage stamp sized parcels of flat land surrounded by 8000ft mountains and primeval rainforest.

This is the way