Recent content by Mortar guy

Infanteer, where is this hubristic dismissal of history and doctrine coming from? Are you so dead set on making the F2025 COA work that you will throw away common sense? I know it's fun to bash doctrine writers, but do you honestly believe that we get to just make up whatever structure we want...

As a guy currently writing infantry doctrine, I respectfully disagree. We put quite a bit of effort into getting the organizational structures right - the problem is that our work and advice is ignored. I will concede that we try to impart some flexibility into the doctrine so that we don't get...

Amen Kev. What's craziest to me are the apologists and ugly-baby syndrome sufferers who cannot see what a gong-show this is. We will fail to achieve what we were told to do in SSE (concurrency, light forces) and we will struggle mightily to generate forces for current named operations, IRUs...

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "posted under". I am getting my info from within the RCIC and from my work writing infantry doctrine. "Near full strength light infantry battalion" - another word for that is "understrength light infantry battalion". As I said above, the CS platoons...

I remember talking to a hydrologist in Afghanistan who told me "Afghanistan doesn't have a water shortage problem, it has a water distribution problem." The CA is sort of the same - fully 20% of those who wear the Army DEU serve outside the CA - mostly in bloated bureaucracies in Ottawa. As many...

As best I can tell from my ACIMS recce and phone calls - about 1000 PYs. But, as you may know, no one has any granularity on the exact PY distribution yet.

OK, so "gets a LIB" is unclear. On the presentations I have seen it shows the one and only LIB as "earmarked for SOF support" - albeit under CCSB. Also, the structure presented is hardly properly structured and resourced - small rifle sections, small weapons platoons in the rifle coys, small mor...

Awesome discussion here. I note that COA 3.1 was selected and we are losing light battalions - well we are really losing half of the Reg F infantry (27 rifle coys to 12) in the Army. We will be left with 6 x 'mech' bns with 2 x coys each (along with a ARes coy). The Army seems to gain a PSYOPS...

I got my five shirts from Jeff a while ago and they are, hands down, the best shirts I have ever worn. I've ordered custom-made shirts before but they didn't fit like Jeff's do. Oh, and I got the RSM's nightmare version of the mess kit shirt!

But the DWRS is stabilized.

Reg Force candidates do not and cannot do BMOQ-A by mods. Again, of all reservists who have done BMOQ-A (and it's predecessors) since 2010, less than 1% have attempted to do the course by mods and, of those, less than half completed all five mods.

One more modularized BMOQ-A will be run, probably at 5 Div TC, then it will be only 55-day demodularized courses from then on. With less than 1% of candidates starting BMOQ-A using the mod system, and less than half that number successfully completing training, it made no sense to carry on with...

I take a mission command approach to wax - my intent is that the moustache look man-tacular - the "how" is up to the wearer.

BMOQ-L is indeed run during all three training trimesters. (Fall, Winter, Summer). The TCs (Meaford, Valcartier, Wainwright, Aldershot) run BMOQ-Ls in the summer, while the Infantry School runs courses all year round. The courses in the summer run from end-May to early August. Off the top of my...

I'll make the intro to the next edition a little lighter - maybe with a focus on moustache maintenance in patrol bases?