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    LAV III Integration Within the Infantry

    It would be a 2 vehicle formation that is the smallest element that can cover and move at the same time. And, once you’ve established a vehicle pair as the base unit, then it would give the officer more flexibility to have 3 or 4 of these base units to command. As a percentage, the actual...
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    The School Funding Thread- Merged

    Children who have richer parents will receive many advantages over their cohorts; why should we add education to this? There will be many points in a person’s life where merit and competition will be significant factors; but no child starts life having earned a better education over others. On...
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    LAV III Integration Within the Infantry

    Other infantry platoons were larger than a rifle platoon: Recce, AAP, Mortars; admittedly those platoons were led much differently than a rifle platoon. But how unwieldy would a rifle platoon’s command team (or a modified version of one) find it to control 3 pairs of rifle section vehicles...
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    DND may be shopping for new subs, sources say

    I think that the Global Warming “issue” has caused a shift in the popularity of nuclear power. Tie in the non-use of fossil fuel, especially in the sensitive arctic environment, with sovereignty - and this might actually have some public support.
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    The School Funding Thread- Merged

    All problems that are solvable without having to throw money away for the benefit of private schools and those that use them. No; what happens for businesses that want government contracts is that they lowball their bids and then do not meet the requirements they were contracted for. And one...
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    The School Funding Thread- Merged

    Public Private Partnerships are not ideal for public health or public education; they have to make profits, are exclusionary, and favour those with cash who just want a subsidized form of a purely private service. But private schools and private health facilities must be made to pay for exactly...
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    The School Funding Thread- Merged

    Why would there be unlimited choice with total government obligation to pay? Parents are not being charged to use public (secular) schools - and so they are free to choose any of them they can get their child to. Nowhere is there the right for parents to choose the school that offers a free car...
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    The School Funding Thread- Merged

    The idea that there is a specific amount of money due to parents for their children is a myth, propaganda, poor logic, and bad math. Why should Joe Gazillionaire get to drop off his Precious at Madame Truffle’s School of Short-pants and Beanies, and then get a cheque from the government to go...
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    Deconstructing "Progressive " thought

    We are in a democracy - attempts to label some government services as socialist and others not, are pointless. This brings us back to your earlier statement: Trying to arbitrarily label some government services as socialism (and therefore to you: as being the result of greed and laziness) is...
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    Deconstructing "Progressive " thought

    I disagree, if it can be termed “socialized medicine” how can it not be, for example,  “socialized policing”. Further response here:
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    The School Funding Thread- Merged

    That is completely wrong; it is special treatment being asked for - it is private education at everyone else's expense. The public (secular) system is already openly funded for them - there has been no limitation of choice or freedom.
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    Deconstructing "Progressive " thought

    Common need is the reason for socialism. We have a common need for defence so we collectively form a military – the same applies for other services. Without some level of socialism you do not have a country. Using religious and individual freedoms as excuses for shovelling money over to...
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    LAV III Integration Within the Infantry

    That would make splitting a 4 vehicle platoon easier; on the other hand, is a 2 vehicle assignment really in need of an officer? Interim - wonder if that’s from lack of agreement, or from lack of need. No argument on that one. The ability to smoothly form a combat team at as low a level as...
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    LAV III Integration Within the Infantry

    I’ve seen USA Bradley orbats that, in a 4 vehicle platoon, have the platoon’s senior NCO in a separate vehicle than the platoon’s officer – so that, if working in vehicle pairs, they would each take one of the other vehicles with them (though I’ve never asked if this is actually how it is done)...
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