Recent content by markppcli

I don’t blame him for the state of the military at all. Has he improved it? No, but I don’t know that he’s made it all that much worse either. I was more pointing to his inability to say “we are announcing today that Canada will commit an additional x and y to the Baltics and will immediately...

Trudeau just finished his remarks without a troop commitment number for Latvia, but us and Spain will lead a global feminist movement so that’s neat.

Probably but that doesn’t mean their really fit to task anymore. Not that a parade square isn’t a good multi purpose facility, but they need to be built with class rooms and maintenance facilities as the for front.

Interesting given thst they had spent money upgraded some BVP2s, I think mostly for recce ? How extensive it was I’m unsure.

I mean I’ve ridden in a Slovakian BVP2, anything would be an upgrade.

. And the Spanish provide a tank platoon, and the majority of the engineer support, full time.

I would say we’re in the operative word here. See my point about them being very dated. Most of my time in the Reserves I thought it was a very weird structure; having armouries built to facilitate drill nights for essentially neighborhood or community regiments is a concept that should have...

Gee what could possibly make us less inclined to wear uniforms out in public ? Was there perhaps a fairly recent violent event ? Bearing in mind that Gault was already a Captain when he did that, it was a massively different world when he did that. Same with Lord Strathconna, paying for...

Yes. Reserve armouries, almost without exception, are very very dated buildings generally build to house more social clubs that training facilities. One could make a strong argument, for example, to shut down both of them in Edmonton and have the reserve regiments use the enormous LTF and TAPV...

Sorry but that’s not true anymore is it? Bradley’s and Strikers are crewed by 11Bs no?

I meant specifically for doing the parade. I’d call that good scheduling, not a short as a reward for doing the damn thing.

I have never had a short day after a change of command.

I guarantee the serfs are more than happy to not be on parade lol

I’m flashing back a couple years to the Commander of the Army answering Comd 1 CMBGs question about how we could get night vision for every soldier in the high readiness brigade with an king discussion about the next generation digitial night visions he’d been shown that was going to be...

I would deeply love to pick you brain about what’s up and coming or dying on the vine.