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Surprised no one has mentioned the Ranger Bar for the SSM you can get after 3 or 4 ranger exercises. Choose your own kit, vote on your ranks, no accountability, and spotlight trips to the PMs residence..... sounds like a sweet gig!

https://web.archive.org/web/20150326190445/http://army.gov.au/~/media/Content/Our%20future/About/Army%20101%20Brief%20Ver%207%20-%20Modernising%20from%20Beersheba%20and%20Beyond%20v4.pdf While old, the attached force structure for the Australian Army in 2015 flys in the face of a pretty admin...

https://globalnews.ca/news/9442804/canadian-forces-decade-of-darkness/ . . ....alright then

From what I heard at the time that Spring ex was spun up with a week or two notice for troops so Im surprised anyone showed up.

This is completely unacceptable and unworkable as the Royal Westminster Regiment won't be given the jump tasking and as you may know the regiment was a jump regiment not so long ago....../s All jokes aside I myself was thinking much the same thing with an attempt at a heavy and light division...

Seems like a possible easy fix by focusing on having sub units for CS and CSS units drawn from their end of the country even if you cant do most armored engineer roles in Vancouver for example.

Like I said it would appear that even though there has been consideration of a squadron of tanks for training as well as about 100 LAVs set aside as well bit no2 it would appear that all equipment is on the table to be pushed out to the field force with in house training going on at the unit...

Keep in mind there are currently 82 MBTs and those are all in play moving forward. A big thing that people don't seem to be mentioning here is that the housing and infrastructure for these vehicles is a big deal. We only have realistically space for 4 squadrons atm and that's split evenly...

A huge issue the chain seems to be ignorant of is the posting system messing up the workup cycle. Officers rolling into platoons and companies for less than the workup cycle has led many units to be on perpetual workup for years to get people their checks in the box while also never deploying...

5 Brigade usually runs trial courses for troops going on courses such as ARP and UO. This leads to a much better ratio of troops getting qualified compared to 1 CBMG or more specifically PPCLI which treats every course like selection, has half the troops fail at least, and then throws their...

I also haven't but everyone I have worked with has indicated that the area is not at all suitable to anything but dismounted operations. What usually happens is the LAVs act as battle taxis with the rest being left up to the troops as I'm told. Additionally, as much as everyone including myself...

Lol if only they knew how much of that 1.27% was real...

The quality of troops trained at St.Jean has become a huge issue. They freely admit to training troops as purple trades so many are not ready to complete training on a combat arms DP1

It would appear that this is more so the incremental companies associating with 2nd battalion despite it not being a full establishment. This is due to the 1st battalion being a SFA unit which requires far fewer troops then a regular battalion.

In my defense mortars have been an instrumental part of the infantry battalion for over 100 years now and the CAF can always handwave the lack of anti-tank at every level by pointing to the Carl G and M72s being employed in platoons. Ya know real tank killers/s

I think its extremely telling that the infantry battalions prioritize having sniper and recce platoons over mortar. Ironic to have recce platoons as we are creating brigades that are built to produce battlegroups each of which are to have a recce squadron.

Is there any interesting points here or was it largely a regurgitation of LPC talking points and gas lighting the state of the CAF?

BRP in 3 Div at least is a lot of what is wrong with the CAF all the while being a huge cost to run and creating a seemingly duplicate asset in battalion battlegroups

Cough Cough... 3VP

Look no further then all the latest "reports" and findings. The new MND is quick to throw the CAF under the bus at first light despite the latest report being a whole lot of nothing spanning 20 years of which there has been massive change. All the good will from callouts for domestic support for...