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Mountie reacted to Skysix's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with
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Close, but.... Get out of the 412 platform for tac hel (move them into domestic only use for dispersed SAR etc (like 417 SQN) or RW... -
Mountie reacted to KevinB's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
I cannot support the Griffon, I'd gladly take the Hook's - but the Griffon really isn't a useful UH, unless 4 troops and a Toboggan is...
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Mountie reacted to Kirkhill's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
An easy way to start, if they wanted to go that route, would be to buy another 24 CH-47s and split them between 408 and 438 while adding...
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Mountie reacted to KevinB's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
The CAF needs to figure out what it really wants to be. Right now IMHO the taxpayer gets a pretty terrible return on investment due to...
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Mountie reacted to Skysix's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
Ummmm. Prove me wrong, but there is also a 2% GDP "pledge" of actual funding of the Canadian Forces. The 6% you refer to, and seem far...
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Mountie reacted to FJAG's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
I agreed fully with everything you said. I wish, though, that those three highlighted words weren't part of the reality of how the Army...
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Mountie reacted to TangoTwoBravo's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
This thread is indeed a wild ride as the train derails down multiple rabbit holes. The three Reg F Armoured Regiments are not moving...
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Mountie reacted to Underway's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
Agreed. Its not like Army Reorg doesn't derail all the other threads around here. Take that Reorg Thread you get sidetracked too! So...
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Mountie reacted to ArmyRick's post in the thread FORCE 2025: Informing the Army’s future structure with Like.
The CAF getting the TAPV for its role in the army is to me as logical as purchasing a cement truck to bale my hay instead of a hay baler.
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Only in doctrine, never in a real world formation's name. I hear 1 CMBG has been playing with an idea it calls the tactical deep fight...
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Unfortunately, when you don't have even basic equipment, and you don't have anyone higher than a Cpl or MCpl to fill the Pl WO...
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I don't think that we do but leaving aside our heavily bloated headquarters structure in Ottawa, I find that we aren't getting enough...
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We don’t seem to want to actually going to a major war equipped as you’ve described. We are a Counter-Insurgency/Constabulary Army that...
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If I haven't been branded a cynic on this forum a long time ago, then do it now. Does anyone here really think or plan on going to war...
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Rheinmetall has developed a Boxer-based bridge layer. If we're going to stick with the LAV as our primary combat vehicle then something...