MERX WATCH: Infrastructure Going Up....

[The Bread Guy]

...all over the place - .pdfs attached if links don't work.

MERX listing for shoothouse upgrade @ Meaford

.... Land Force Central Area Training Center (LFCA TC) Meaford, Department of National Defence (DND), needs to have an existing Live Fire Shoothouse (LFSH) expanded and upgraded. This facility was purchased from Advanced Training Systems of St Paul, Minnesota in 2006. This expansion will consist of the addition of a 20' x 24' expansion module and ballistic barriers to the existing facility. The ballistic barriers are required at each of the two exterior exits in the expanded LFSH. The existing interior layout will also be reconfigured as part of this project. Intention is to reuse as many of the existing wall panels and other components already purchased as possible.  ....

MERX listing for new confidence course @ Burwash, Ontario

.... The work includes, but is not necessarily limited to the supply of labour, material, supervision and equipment necessary to erect a confidence course containing thirteen (13) wood and rope obstacles at Canadian Forces Training Area Burwash as per drawings and Specifications ....

MERX listing for DRASH shelters (see photo below)

.... For the provision of DRASH shelters on behalf of Department of National Defence, CFB Gagetown, Oromocto, NB.  PWGSC intends to enter into a sole-source contract with Norleans Technologies Inc of Ottawa, Ontario.  The estimated value of the contract is $196,626.72 GST/HST included  .....

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[PuckChaser]

Those DRASH shelters are pretty highspeed. I've used em once or twice to set up a CP. Takes 15 minutes and the whole thing is struck, tied down and the vehicle ends installed. They are pricey as hell, but well worth the money.

Who uses CFTA Burwash? I've never even heard of it...

 

[George Wallace]

Those DRASH shelters are pretty highspeed. I've used em once or twice to set up a CP. Takes 15 minutes and the whole thing is struck, tied down and the vehicle ends installed. They are pricey as hell, but well worth the money.

Who uses CFTA Burwash? I've never even heard of it...

What time of year did you use it ?

 

[PuckChaser]

It was summer, point taken.  ;D  Pretty sure we'll have it again in January for another week ex, so it'll get its paces then in the nice cold weather.

 

[BC Old Guy]

Who uses CFTA Burwash? I've never even heard of it...

Burwash is just south of Sudbury.  When I was in Sudbury, it was used by 2IrRC. Nice training area for sect and platoon, with some scope for company level training. I don`t know who controls the training area, but imagine if someone called the unit in Sudbury they could provide the info.