The Canadian Airborne Regiment was an excellent unit that had its dirty underware displayed a bad time. The CAR as orgininally envisioned was an excellent unit, no substitute for a "true" special forces unit, but a necessary unit for the Canadian Army. The CAR was orginally designed to be similar to the US Army Rangers and not the UK SAS, UK "Paras", or US "Green Berets." To know more about the formation of CAR, read Significant Incident by David Bercuson a very well respected Canadian military historian and analyst. Orginally, the CAR was to be a commando unit, indeed the orginal name was to be the Canadian Commando Regiment. It was to be used for direct action missions of platoon, company, and battalion sized. The last being the least important. It was not to have an artillery battery, or a combat service support company, but simply to have two Commandos (large rifle company‘s treated as units and not sub-units), a Combat Support Commando, and a Headquarters Commando and Regiment Headquarters. This is actually almost identical to the current structure of the Royal Australian Army‘s 4th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment (Commando). The Australian‘s also have a reserve commando regiment and regual army special forces regiment {ASR (Australian)}. I think the Canadian Army should again create a CAR/Commando/Ranger like unit of battalion size, but ensure that it is battalion sized without all the supporting elements that old CAR had before it was downsized. Essentially I would argue that the new para-commando regiment have 3 Commando/rifle companies each with 3 rifle platoons, and a company combat support platoon and company headquarters. The battalion should have a combat support company with a pioneer, anti-tank, mortar, and reconnaissance platoons, and company headquarters. Finally the headquarters company battalion headquarters would support the unit, the same as any other infantry battalion. I would suggest that the JTF II be retained and expanded; possibly renamed the Canadian Special Air Service. Commando skills and special forces skills are different, and their roles and missions are quite different. The commando is a highly trained light infantry shock troop, whereas the special forces is designed primarily for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance missions (ISTAR). Also the SF soldier tends to be dual hatted for counter terrrorist roles. The additon of a commando unit would go a long way to improving moral in the infantry, which is the heart and soul of the army. This is not a corps knock, just a statement of the importance in terms of numbers and not capabilities. Having a unit to strive for is important, but the capabilities of a commando unit would go along way to making the current combat incapable army combat capable. The latter comment is not a knock to the personal commitment and capabilities of Canadian soldiers, just the recognition of the lack of overall capability in the Army.