Recent content by WestIsle

Sorry DWAN. My brains turning into government word salad

Dont have DWAN open at the moment but its Regt d Hull, Voltigeurs, and another saying they are somehow related to Victoria Rifles of Canada, Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, and Royal Rifles of Canada. The whole thing is pretty cynical considering why those regiments got shuttered and why the...

Ironically most of the supp order regiments are seemingly in the process of potentially being merged with active francophone unit like the Volts who all have no battle honors. Because.... of the implication... The irony though is not lost on me

Twin Otters are built or will be built out West so thats a no go. Just look at the new purchases of Beachcraft for training.

I believe that the area where the yacht club used to be in Esq was cleared to look at adding pens there. Though that was before the number of 12 boats came up. Id imagine a sorta land swap could be done with the local Songhees to get the area nearby.

I believe the main partner here is going to be Babcock so expect them to be involved with the in country work

Yes I know but it is also a CAF issue as it pushes people to hard leave the military at certain milestones. I know people who have wanted to stay in part time but couldnt pass up on the money on the table. These are often people in the prime of careers and are motivated to stay in. There is no...

Pedantic point but an obvious way to assist with the numbers and make up for the bleed of Reserves to Regular force would be to allow Reg members to access their training benefit while being in the Reserves. This would shore up the numbers, inject experience and in some cases fill gaps in...

Seems like there are hard caps at least out West due to training capacity. These are limiting any growth in many cases.

Yeah but two different issues from the same organization. Some examples I have heard and/or seen include having much shorter training then even their PRes compartments when they do get on course, minimal to no processing files of files for weeks while staff attend recruiting events, closing...

From my experience 50% in a major city simply going "no further contact" is pretty much par for the course. It was actually much worse when PRs were first allowed in but that is a different story. A lot of people I have met who talk about applying but not hearing back/took too long etc had files...

Powerpoints seemed to point at the government which is kinda in line with most other easy win small procumrent projects atm.

It could have been rolling out already but no new funds were provided by the government even as there will be now gaps in service uniform issuing to new members.

The dry cleaners at Depot will be put out of business by this lol

Keep in mind that this is the same branch not so long ago that was advocating for a MPF light tank battalion at the division level alongside a spattering of new versions of the Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle in a division that would have included MBTs in each brigade. It seemed at least at the...