PHOTOS: Arctic Ram 2012

[dapaterson]

How about captions that get ranks wrong? "Pte Harris from 1 RCHA" instead of Gnr.

From a purely pedantic standpoint, the caption is correct. "Gunner", "Sapper", "Trooper" and other such ranks are not authorized for use in the CF.  They appear in a table to the NDA, but the QR&Os are clear that only certain ranks are approved for use.  Pte, Cpl etc are OK for use; those in naval DEUs are authorized the use of AB,, LS etc; but the old names are not currently authorized for use.

(That everyone does in fact use them is a different topic entirely)

 

[FSTO]

Just watched the National. I was pleased with the report until they got to the conclusion with the earnest young reporter. She reported that one vehicle rolled spilling fuel, that a helicopter knocked out power to Yellowknife for a week and that Arctic Ram was actually held in the sub-arctic. Nice to end the report with a downer ma'am, you are Toronto bound for sure!

 

[Zoomie]

and that Arctic Ram was actually held in the sub-arctic.

Which is a very valid statement.  This scale of operation would not be possible in the actual arctic - unless all the vehicles were shipped up via barge during the late summer months.  Once we re-establish an arctic warfare school at Res Bay - we might be in a better position to hold true arctic exercises.

 

[Strike]

What's also important with this exercise is that it's testing the efficacy with which the Bde can deploy as a whole domestically and employ its forces. Think how much easier it will be to react to flooding in the prairies now that the HQ and Sigs has managed to devise a system that allows them to set up the HQ in only a matter of hours.

 

[FSTO]

Which is a very valid statement.  This scale of operation would not be possible in the actual arctic - unless all the vehicles were shipped up via barge during the late summer months.  Once we re-establish an arctic warfare school at Res Bay - we might be in a better position to hold true arctic exercises.

Oh I realize that. But the way she said it (to me, but then I mistrust everything the media reports on us) made it seem that the Canadian forces had no idea that they were in the sub-arctic. She did say that next years exercise would be outside of Tuktoyuktuk (sp),then in a snooty voice (once again sounded like that to me) "which is actually in the Arctic."

 

[Strike]

Sometimes people are so literal!  Do they really think we would have called the exercise Sub-Arctic Ram?