I'll believe it when I see it.
I agree, where I see the opportunity is just like the army, most civilian jobs are busiest in the summer. Non student reservists could probably find an easier time to get time off Oct to March then they can May to Aug. Why not run a course or two in the winter catering to the other group?That's why one should concentrate on students, and train the hell out of them for the full summers when they are looking for work anyway.
In three summers and two academic years (five summers and four years for officers and certain others) you should be able to get them BMQ, DP1 and 2 trained in whatever trade. After that you go on a reduced cycle of obligatory training which caters for outside work and the family.
Get them while they're young and needing cash.
As long as your model doesn't involve 12-24 month long enrollment and transfer processes, just about anything can work...
My 2c...
No reason why not. I see a regional training organization that is part of CADTC which I conveniently call "Depot battalions". These are located out of Edmonton, Meaford, Valcartier and Aldershot but with companies and platoons located in all major cities with ResF units and student populations.I agree, where I see the opportunity is just like the army, most civilian jobs are busiest in the summer. Non student reservists could probably find an easier time to get time off Oct to March then they can May to Aug. Why not run a course or two in the winter catering to the other group?
For the life of me I can't understand how that ever was allowed to develop.As long as your model doesn't involve 12-24 month long enrollment and transfer processes, just about anything can work...
My 2c...
Problem is training courses aren't two weeks, hell mine were 3 months, had to switch jobs many tines because employeers didn't like playing ball, and it's not worth filing a complaint
^ This.That's why one should concentrate on students, and train the hell out of them for the full summers when they are looking for work anyway.
Employees are paid their regular pay provided they submit any compensation received for military service to the city treasurer, unless this compensation is paid for days they are not scheduled to work.
Compensation received for travelling expenses and meal allowance does not have to be returned to the city.
All benefits continue during the leave.
An employee’s service is not affected by the leave. An employee’s vacation entitlement, seniority and pension credit do not change.
A report that tells nothing other than the CAF doesn't manage money well.
Kicking the can down the road is what Canada does best!
2 years mandatory service immediately after high school for all.
Did anyone expect anything different????Kicking the can down the road is what Canada does best!
Jam tomorrow!Kicking the can down the road is what Canada does best!
Then 1-2 years immediately after post secondary completion.No fucking way. The mind is still developing; people on either an academic or occupational track should be in school still.
SSE= Sort of, Sometime, ExcusesA report that tells nothing other than the CAF doesn't manage money well.
Shocking.
Also the Germans just spent more in one year in Capital acquisitions than Canada expects to over 10, almost 15...
Then 1-2 years immediately after post secondary completion.
Any reason we can't get on that AUKUS SSN deal?How about 20 CSC, 5 JSS, some sort of RORO Big Honking ship, and new Subs for the Navy (I will even drop my preference for SSN if it gets a decent AIP new boat)
140 F-35's, 25 P-8, 180 FVL (replace the Cyclone, and the Griffons, Cormorants) for a pure fleet Utility, while I am partial to the Bell submission, the Sikorsky/LocMart may be better for Naval and SAR as tilt rotor has some issues with space and downwash, add 15 more Hooks, find a way to get more C-17's (used low hour ones, or see what it would take to get Boeing to kick the line back up - I suspect some other customers want the same) - and UAV's for the Air Force.
Army - sort out the Reserves.
1 Heavy Bde (30-70 reg/res) - Prepositioned in Europe (Latvia comes to mind - but the Ukraine might be a good spot after this is all settled)
2 Med Bde (30-70 reg/res)
1 Light Bde 70/30 reg/res) *rapid response force until your heavier forces can get into an area
1 Combat Support Bde (70/30 reg/res)
2 Service Support Bdes (50/50 reg/res)
I have now spend 80 years of CAF budget in less than a decade...
I think SSN is a bridge to far for Canada at this moment.Any reason we can't get on that AUKUS SSN deal?
Also holy molly the Raider X FVL looks like an amazing weapons platform. Here's to hoping all the dreams come true... hah!
Technically all Danish 18-year-old males are conscripts (37,897 in 2010, of whom 53% were considered suitable for duty).[36] Due to the large number of volunteers, 96-99% of the number required in the past three years,[37] the number of men actually called up is relatively low (4200 in 2012). There were additionally 567 female volunteers in 2010, who pass training on "conscript-like" conditions.[38]
WHAT IS THE RESERVE
The reserve is the group of military personnel who are not permanently employed in the Armed Forces, but have signed a contract with the Armed Forces to be available for military service. (Similarly, the Danish Emergency Management Agency has a reserve of non-permanent contractual personnel who are also organized in the HPRD).
The reserve consists of soldiers of all ranks from the constable and sergeant group and officers up to the rank of colonel. All have a full military education equivalent to that of permanent staff. Many reservists are former permanent line personnel who have left the Armed Forces and, like the other reservists, have a civilian job as their primary occupation.
WHY THE RESERVE?
Military defense uses reserve personnel for several reasons, the most important of which is probably that it is the cheapest way to use personnel. If a reservist is called up for service 35 days a year, he is free for the Armed Forces for the other 330 days of the year. For this reason, the Reserve is typically used for peak loads. For example, one in five international operations deployed in 2008 was by the Reserve. Secondly, the Reserve is a bridge-builder between civil society and the Armed Forces. It brings civilian values and ideas into the Armed Forces and is the Armed Forces' ambassadors in the civilian. Third, a large majority of the reservists possess attractive civilian competencies that the Armed Forces directly or indirectly benefit from. Fourth, having a Reserve Defense provides operational flexibility:
HOW BIG IS THE RESERVE IN DENMARK?
In 2013, about 3,000 reservists have an availability contract with the Armed Forces in 2013, and they deliver about 25,000 days of command, corresponding to approx. 120 man-years. In fact, most of the admission days are provided by less than 1,000 reservists. The Danish defense spends about 0.3% of the defense budget on the Reserve's available service, and is, like Estonia and Italy, among the NATO countries that use the Reserve the least. In contrast, the UK and US spend from 5 to 10 per cent of the defense budget on their reserves.
Dual Leadership
The Home Guard has a dual military - civilian leadership:
The Commander of the Home Guard, Major General Jens Garly, is responsible for the training and deployment of units and also for the overall supervision of the Home Guard
The Commissioner of the Danish Home Guard, Søren Espersen, is responsible for recruitment and gaining support for the Home Guard in the Danish population.
The Volunteers in the Danish Home Guard
The members of the Home Guard take part in the defence and support of the country on a voluntary and unpaid basis.
Men and women from the age of 18 can apply for membership. A military background is not necessary. The wish to participate is more important.
The Army Home Guard
The Army Home Guard volunteer soldiers are specially trained to support the Armed Forces, the Police and the Emergency Management Agency in their task solution on land, both in Denmark and abroad.
All members of the Army Home Guard have completed a basic military training in line with the Army's basic training. The tasks range from traffic regulation and security, to securing Danish socially important companies. The Army Home Guard also supports the Armed Forces in connection with the training of conscripts and soldiers who are to be sent out for international tasks.
In recent years, the Army Home Guard has been on international missions with the Armed Forces, for example in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
The Home Guard volunteers come from all parts of society - together they have an interest in defense and a desire to help society and make a difference.
Copenhagen attacks spur Home Guard interest
Interest in enrolling in the Danish Home Guard doubled in the week after a gunman opened fire at a cultural centre and killed a Jewish security guard, recruitment officials said on Friday.
Interest in the Home Guard increased after both the Paris and Copenhagen attacks.
The Home Guard normally receives an average of 27 recruitment inquiries per week, (189 Canadian or 9828 Canadian Equivalents per year)- but in the week after the February 14-15 Copenhagen shootings, 85 Danes signed up. In the first week following the Paris attacks, 40 Danes contacted the Home Guard. An additional 75 signed up the following week.
“I think it is natural that people react in different ways when they suddenly feel that their country and society is under attack. Some want to take concrete action and for them the Home Guard is a way to support the military and protect society,” Krenchel said.
The Home Guard recruitment process takes up to four months
One of the weapons that El-Hussein used was an M95 rifle that had previously been stolen from the home of a Danish Home Guard member. That led the military service to order its 4,300 (30,100 Canadian Equivalents with their rifles at home) volunteer members in March to turn in their rifle bolts, making them unable to be fired.
That decision led to a mixed political response. While Defence Minister Nicolai Wammen expressed his “full trust” in the Home Guard, many opposition MPs criticized the decision.
“When one hands in their bolt, it’s the same as handing in their weapon. So it is basically saying that now our Home Guard is unarmed. I think that is the wrong decision,” Danish People’s Party spokeswoman Marie Krarup told DR.
Troels Lund Poulsen, a spokesman for primary opposition party Venstre, told Berlingske it was “insane” to implement what he characterized as a drastic decision, while Holger Nielsen of the left-wing Socialist People’s Party countered that disarming Home Guard members was “sensible”.
The Home Guard's Special Support and Reconnaissance Company (SSR) is specially trained in obtaining information under difficult tactical conditions and supports the solution of the Armed Forces' national and international tasks.
As the Home Guard's national special force, SSR must be able to support the Armed Forces' special operations forces with patrols and staff - also internationally. This places great demands on the individual soldier.
The unit consists of volunteer personnel from the Home Guard who are specially selected, specially trained and specially equipped to be able to perform special reconnaissance and information retrieval in small highly trained teams.
Military service and civilian affairs
SSR gives you a unique opportunity to get the best out of the military world while you have a civilian job or are doing other things unrelated to the Armed Forces in general.
If you, like many others, still want to have the experiences that the military can give you in the form of exercises, courses and personal competencies, then SSR is a good place to be. You will be able to meet your physical and personal challenges while you can also have a civilian job.
Physical and mental challenges
Great demands are placed on your physical endurance and your mental resilience. You will be faced with physical challenges that require you to keep your shape straight.
You sometimes want to get to the limit of what you can physically handle, and you want to train for it. This option must also be rewarded, and you will therefore have the opportunity to train with others who also have this option.
This means that the physical requirements must be able to be met at all times and form a foundation for you to be able to complete the demanding exercises and courses in which SSR participates.
SSR in preparation for other military units
If you have the desire to become a Hunter (Jaeger-Commando) or a Frogman, SSR is a good place to start. The service provides a good physical, mental, personal and professional foundation. The training in SSR is demanding because we place high demands on you so that SSR can fulfill its obligations in the cooperation agreement with the Danish special operations forces.
Through the service in SSR, you get a professional and personal surplus, which can help you against the dream of being admitted to one of the two corps. SSR can give you the push to get off to a good start - you then have to complete the rest yourself.
Personal skills
An important part of the service in SSR is about not skipping where the fence is lowest.
You will be continually influenced to get things done in the best way. During the service, there will be situations where it can be directly life-threatening if things are not done properly or the individual wastes his or her professional competence. You will therefore be greeted with the attitude that you keep working until the task is solved extremely satisfactorily.
SSR thus expects one to behave properly and have situational awareness. On the other hand, one cannot have served in SSR without being influenced in a positive way.
Unique unity
When you have gone through a lot of hardships together and seen how dependent you are on each other, you get a unique friendship.
During exercises and courses, you will usually spend many hours with other people who share the same interests as you and who are willing to help you in all situations. This unity is difficult to find elsewhere and will be something that characterizes you during, but also after a completed service in SSR.
Something magical happens between people who are dependent on each other under extreme conditions. You will therefore find both support and camaraderie at SSR.
Tasmania’s very own royal, Crown Princess Mary of Denmark has enrolled in the Danish Home Guard.
The Crown Princess will learn how to handle and fire a weapon, first aid, marching drills, signal training, fire-fighting and rescue skills while she attends elementary training at the Home Guard training centre.
When she finishes her training, Princess Mary will be attached to the Home Guard ‘total defence’ region in Copenhagen.
Crown Princess Mary completes Home Guard Training
Continuing and completing her training with the Danish Home Guard between February 17 and 19, Crown Princess Mary has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant in the Home Guard. She is now attached to the staff of Total Defence Region Copenhagen.
Mary began her basic Home Guard training in January 2008, and continued with NGO training that November. She undertook a further officiers course this year between January 19 and 21, plus on January 28.
Mary passed a course in shooting, first aid and surviving in the wild, meaning that she can now serve in Denmark's Home Guard.
By training with the organisation, which would defend the nation in the event of an attack, the princess is following in the footsteps of her mother-in-law Queen Margrethe. The Home Guard was formed in 1949, with its members drawn from World War II resistance fighters.
Facts about the Danish Home Guard
- The Home Guard is a volunteer military organisation.
- The Home Guard had 46,651 members as of October 2014 .
- The active force had 15,808 volunteer soldiers as of October, 2014. The remaining volunteers belong to the Home Guard Reserve.
- Approximately 15 percent of all volunteer soldiers are women.
- The task of the Home Guard is to support the Armed Forces – nationally as well as internationally. In addition, the Home Guard supports the police, the emergency services and other authorities in carrying out their duties.
- 1,845 people applied for enrollment in the Home Guard, and 1,301 volunteers signed a contract in 2014 (as of November 2014).
- 868 of the new volunteers (68 percent) were aged 18-32.
- The appropriation allocated to the Home Guard in the Finance Bill amounted to 498,4 m. DKK in 2014.
The 2010 stats show that 47% (or over 13 million) volunteer. In total 2 billion hours were volunteered, the equivalent of 1.1 million full time jobs. On average, volunteers contributed 156 hours each (roughly 21 working days).
NFPA estimates there were approximately 152,650 local firefighters in the Canada during the period 2014 to 2016. Of the total number of firefighters 26,000 (17%) were career firefighters and 126,650 (83%) were volunteer firefighters.
Volunteer firefighters freely volunteer their efforts as a way of serving and giving back to their community. They often do not receive monetary compensation from the fire department. If they are paid, it is typically in the form of small stipends or annual bonuses.
Country | Def Exped | GDP (billions) | Per capita | Pers # | Eqpt % | Pers % | Infstr % | Other % |
(millions) | / % def exp | GDP / def exp | ||||||
United States | 811,140 | 20,601 / 3.52 | 62,100 / 2,186 | 1351.5 | 29.35 | 37.47 | 1.58 | 31.59 |
United Kingdom | 72,765 | 3,014 / 2.29 | 44,700 / 1,023 | 156.2 | 24.26 | 32.69 | 1.42 | 41.64 |
Germany | 64,785 | 3,521 / 1.53 | 42,200 / 644 | 189.1 | 18.55 | 41.75 | 3.69 | 36.06 |
France | 58,729 | 2,534 / 2.01 | 37,400 / 751 | 208 | 27.8 | 42.53 | 3.02 | 26.65 |
Italy | 29,763 | 1,821 / 1.41 | 30,500 / 428 | 174.2 | 28.9 | 60.54 | 1.67 | 8.89 |
Canada | 26,523 | 1,697 / 1.39 | 44,100 / 632 | 71.1 | 17.66 | 47.5 | 3.32 | 31.52 |
Spain | 14,875 | 1,250 / 1.02 | 26,200 / 267 | 123.9 | 22.75 | 60.12 | 0.73 | 16.41 |
Netherlands | 14,378 | 828 / 1.45 | 47,100 / 685 | 40.8 | 26.2 | 47.26 | 3.26 | 23.28 |
Poland | 13,369 | 575 / 2.10 | 15,000 / 314 | 121.2 | 26.1 | 47.92 | 4.97 | 21.01 |
Turkey | 13,057 | 1,073 / 1.57 | 12,700 / 199 | 445.4 | 29.05 | 52.47 | 1.95 | 16.53 |
Denmark | 5,522 | 338 / 1.63 | 57,700 / 813 | 18.3 | 22.35 | 45.39 | 2.44 | 29.83 |
CAF finance officers are trained as budget managers, not accountants. Most would be hard pressed to discuss why there is a chart of accounts and what it represents; are poor at differentiating between the four votes used by DND/CAF; and receive little to no formal training on the mechanics of government which is a sine qua non at the more senior levels (LCol+). A finance officer who can't discuss Main Estimates, Supplementary Estimates, and the Annual Reference Level Update isn't a finance officer.
I was recently shocked to find out they do zero training in procurement. Explains why they keep talking about multiple quotes for Standing Offers.
I think we need that right nowI've been trying to convince my sister to join her local reserve unit as a finance officer. She's an accountant, with a four year BBA in finance, and in the past worked for a procurement firm. Sounds like she might be overqualified.