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We may never know.

I don't see how wedding light battalions to PRes brigades will improve the readiness of what should be the most quickly deployable battalions in the army.

Mike, What's going on here: There are a few pages that seem to pop-up this way.

If the requirement were legitimate, it probably would have been resourced. If the capability requirement were legitimate, we would probably ask Reg F battalions to generate the soldiers who were both rifleman & specialist. It suggests we are okay with capability failure by our asking the...

It’s a flaming grenade. If you are a qualified Combat Engineer, nobody will question your legitimacy in having it.

As an aside, what are the chances that (when this does get pushed to proper approval paths) the government allows changes to Seaman without also demanding changes to Guardsman, Rifleman, and Craftsman?

"The Journey" provides a path to correcting the miss-use of PRes to fill permanent full-time requirements.

There are exceptions that the PEO recognizes including train operators, stationary engineers, and the federal government. In fact, all provincial associations recognize an exemption for the federal government.  As long as the Army can get away with “combat engineer”, other technical trades will...

Okay, if your anecdotes about illness on operations and water remediation in Kandahar were supposed to be references to bad policies, then they failed to actually discuss policy.  The stuff you post now is policy, but a red herring. So what if the government has got other policies wrong? There...

Did you check any of the studies that article directly linked to? Despite not being able to run studies with control groups, there is evidence: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2007800 https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/27/3/taaa056/5822103 https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03444...

Consider that it is not about you. Everyone in their own arrogance assumes they are healthy until they are symptomatic, and by that time they have already been a spreader. You not wearing a mask for factors solely based on impacts to yourself is wantonly inconsiderate of everyone who will share...

If it is a spending bill, is it not a confidence vote?

Yes.  I see that now too. Anyway, this site's wiki has been a little difficult for me over the last few months so I've loaded my library to the parent (which leaves the files still accessible to the local wiki).  If you need a map symbol, it might be here...

As stated above and noted in the media, the CAF will continue to fly the fleet where necessary. I would suspect that the language used allows specific delegated lower commanders to decide what is necessary.