Search results

You have touched on something here that is actually quite important and probably one of the biggest barriers to reforming the reserves. It became a very major issue in the late 1990s and since then most RegF leaders have shied away from restructuring the reserves. Back in the 1960s we had 6...

My thought goes by months actually. The contract starts July 1st, when the first day of DP1 starts for a high school student. The first waypoint is on Aug 31st of the following year when DP1 should be complete. All subsequent contracts run from Sep 1 to Aug 31 to coincide with the annual...

One of my favourite guys - I love his Dirty Jobs series. 🍻

damn paywall. :mad:

And so much more. In a world short of munitions manufacturing capability, opportunities abound. A little government support would help. 🍻

How it fits in is an easy question. Why we aren't maximizing this potential, is a much more difficult one to answer. :unsure:

They'll all be needed for the EW build-up. 🍻

For DP 1 the system consists of basic military qualification, basic environmental qualification, and basic military occupational qualification. At that point an individual achieves the operationally functional point (OFP). By my way of overview, a rifle section of let's say ten men needs four...

The red over yellow square was very common to armoured corps vehicles in the 1960s. They disappeared around 1970 or 1971 when we went to the black NATO tactical signs, I can't recall ever seeing that red over white pennant on any Centurion in Canada during those days as my experience at the time...

I think that you're bang on in all three of your evaluation. Your first crowd is the one I target for a period of obligatory service with a limited number of mandatory collective training days. The only purpose for them is to provide the mass you need to 1) make good collective training...

That would be desirable but in my view is impractical. The start point is that most ResF recruits join up in high school or at the end of high school before university or community college. Basically they have at max eight weeks of training which barely covers BMQ. I'm a proponent that the DP1...

:ROFLMAO: My first CD - which should have been when I was still with the RegF - didn't get to me until my second year after transferring back to the ResF. The three bars to my CD - all in the ResF - came on time. 🍻

There are two issues in what you say. The first is that losing "that many people is not necessarily a bad thing." It is. If you waste resources - both pay and instructor time and training resources - on people who leave immediately after a summer, then you might as well just burn the money in a...

The graph actually varies a bit with what Doran said in the Journal article which is that: I'll make a small caveat here in that Doran doesn't quote much in the way of a source for his statistics (nonetheless that hasn't stopped me from citing his information in my book "Unsustainable at Any...

I expect the MLRS issue is correct. The upgrading of the Brit's MLRS fleet of 44 launchers has been in the works and budgeted for several years. They gave some to Ukraine so would be replacing those and planning on increasing their fleet between 50-100% - a total of 71 fits that well. I think...

Agreed - although this was for the carrier capable F-35B. I got the impression from this that this was an RAF contemplation to replace their Typhoons which they still have 137 of. I'm not sure if they'd go with the B for commonality or the A variant. 🤷‍♂️

The Brits are currently 17 Billion Pounds short in their budget vis a vis funding their intended acquisition programs. This would be a tight squeeze. On the other hand the Typhoon's best before date is 2025. Obviously the Brits don't know how to keep things flying for decades with bailing wire...

So is riddling babies with bullets. Did we have to wait for violence against women before Canada's official outrage could be registered? :mad:

My mother, bless her soul, was a dressmaker at the CBC and a union shop steward. Notwithstanding that she and I would argue endlessly about my military conservative leanings and her obvious flirtation with communism, I tended to side with her wholeheartedly about the stupidity and delusional...

Speaking of universities, and U of M, my old alma matter and one of my old classmates, Gail Asper, is in the news. Not a fan of the liberals nor of Izzy Asper for that matter, but this article was right on. Good for Gail and good for U of M. 🍻