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  1. daftandbarmy

    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    Believe me, the Reg F resources are deployed to the greatest areas of risk for the CO: avoiding criticism from higher that your returns have not been submitted on time, etc. Oh, and getting clearance so the Class A chattel can go out and sleep in the mud, shoot on ranges, do parades up and down...
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    Raid on Los Baños - 23 Feb 45

    Raid on Los Baños The Raid on Los Baños (Filipino: Pagsalakay sa Los Baños) in the Philippines, early Friday morning on 23 February 1945, was executed by a combined U.S. Army Airborne and Filipino guerrilla task force, resulting in the liberation of 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees...
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    Advancing With Purpose 4th Edn Dec 2020

    That's what Mackenzie King tried to do prior to WW2. Thinking 'hey, we'll just be the place where they train aircrew and save lives in the next war (and my political neck)' he enthusiastically backed the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan...
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    Advancing With Purpose 4th Edn Dec 2020

    For some reason, Pre-COVID anyways, we were forced to 'go through the basics' for the first half of the training year. Every. Single. Year. It wasn't until January that you could actually begin doing any interesting training. And then you only had two weekends, in January and February, to get...
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    General Vance - Inappropriate conduct?

    It's OK, I've got a big green binder somewhere full of ethics stuff that we had to plow through a few years ago as part of yet another mandatory training thing. I'm sure Diogenes has our back ;) The Statement of Defence Ethics Principle I: Respect the Dignity of all Persons. This ethical...
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    I kind of agree with the Economist on this one. Words matter. They matter even more when global conflict, and 'genocide precedent' are at stake: “Genocide” is the wrong word for the horrors of Xinjiang To confront evil, the first step is to describe it accurately When Ronald Reagan cried...
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    No. I'm no fan of the 'National Man Baby', but the principles of good diplomacy suggests that they take the middle ground - for now (which must be really p*ssing off that sanctimonious, virtue signalling little pr*ck :)). "A Liberal government source speaking on background said the cabinet...
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    Advancing With Purpose 4th Edn Dec 2020

    This was the underlying assumption of every tour/deployment I did in the British Army. The Army had already trained you and the CO & Bde Comd were expected to figure it out and get on with it. Allied with a really good 'sausage machine' type pre-deployment training program run by a Forces-wide...
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    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    Outside of a couple of career courses I can pretty much guarantee there was zero training for me planned as a part of my service over the years. And I don't count the TEWTs which, in the 20-teens, were largely indistinguishable from the TEWTs in the 1980s. I always tried to set up some kind of...
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    Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ship AOPS

    Well, after saying this: Says Gamme, “The great modern polar exploration era ended with that trip.” You just know that's like a red rag to a bull ;)
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    Chinese Military,Political and Social Superthread

    I'm sure that the families of the 'two Michaels' are watching this with interest: Vote passes recognizing China’s treatment of Uighurs as genocide Canadian lawmakers voted to support a motion formally recognizing China’s treatment of its...
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    British Military Current Events

    Someone (who greatly outranked me) once suggested - half jokingly - that the Royal Navy was probably bribing the Argies to keep the pressure on so that their 'second eleven' would still have a crack at Admiral ;)
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    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    Or even, as a start, convert all the FTEs at the Bde HQs into training positions and assign them to the units....
  14. daftandbarmy

    Divining the right role, capabilities, structure, and Regimental System for Canada's Army Reserves

    Right now there are no Reg F trainers in a Reserve Force unit. None of the ones I've been part of for the past umpteen years at any rate. Reg F staff are largely employed as either administrators (e.g., Adjt, Chief Clerk) or Ops Planners/Coord (Ops WO). Very few of them ever go out on weekend...
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    First Arctic Navigation in February Sends a Worrying Climate Signal

    Uh oh.... Melting ice in the Arctic allowed a gas tanker to sail through the Northern Sea Route in the middle of winter A tanker sailed through Arctic sea ice in February for the first time, the latest sign of how quickly the pace of climate change is accelerating in the Earth’s northernmost...
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    British Military Current Events

    I'm sure you must be alluding to the ongoing Falkland Islands Squid War, correct? :) "In the months before the thirtieth anniversary of the Falklands War the Argentine government were keen to place additional economic and social pressure on the Falklands Islands, and by extension Britain. One...
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    British Military Current Events

    Fair one as they are pretty leery of nuclear submarines roaming around those parts ;) Falklands defined as British Independent Overseas Territory by US Navy triggers reaction in Buenos Aires The Argentine government expressed deep concern following a report in the...
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