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Ex-Civ U ROTP here. It's a good ride. Enjoy it. I will add that you should do your best to make sure you get some professional development done before graduating. You'll be lacking that and French compared to RMC.

To be fair, the vast majority of the population went along with the mandates. Canada had some of the highest rates of vaccination in the world. The few that were troublesome were really so. I think it also depends on how national service obligations are constructed. How long is it? Are...

Indeed. One of the problems with our Hodge Podge of schools and training programs is the lack of a consistent schedule. It's that lack of consistency that makes it hard to scale. Everything is more as hoc or even bespoke. Something like what I posted above can actually be scaled much more...

This varies substantially. And some of it is terrible organization. How long is POET? Like 6 months? And it's supposed to be the equivalent of a 2 yr college diploma. We do that at a quick pace, have high failures, then have months of wait for their actual trade course (like say AVS)...

This also plays out in very different ways for officers and ncms. I got a substantially subsidized undergrad and two fully subsidized graduate engineering degrees, which would be highly valuable in the civvie world. Meanwhile we try really hard to make sure that NCMs don't get training that...

^ Will add that the American GI Bill is essentially this kind of generational contract but in voluntary form. Serve 5 years. Get 4 years of post-secondary with no cost limit that is transferable and divisible within your family. They also get VA loans for mortgages and get some health...

Countries that have national service usually have some sort of deal for their young people. Like free or cheap postsecondary for example. The British Tory proposal was nothing but rank generational warfare to secure the votes of seniors. Something not said, was that if they didn't end up...

It's amazing to me how many people have come to believe that it's "the procurement system", or "the process" or "the bureaucrats". And virtually nobody blames the politicians who could fix most of this with policy changes.

More like the PMO was told that the requirements had to be competitive enough that they would get multiple bids, allowing Industry Canada to get maximum direct offsets. The only way to accomplish this was to drop certain requirements that would have excluded the 295.

The show great in person too. The F-35s were particularly awesome.

A smaller part. They are playing the hand they've been dealt. Just the same as any military officer of DND PS. We shouldn't expect them to somehow not do their jobs so that our projects advance.

Blaming "nameless manadarins" is a great way for a whole bunch of politicians to escape accountability. Most of our procurement failures are a result of poor political choices than process and bureaucracy.

Oh totally. But this is kinda the problem. We've taken so long with procurement that technology and doctrine has moved on. Same thing now with GBAD too.

I guess the debate is whether we would have been better off with a Hi-Lo mix of a HALE for domestic surveillance and a low end MALE for the armed reconnaissance mission or our current jack of all solution.

Kinda ties in. Gotta wonder how useful Reapers/Guardians will be when CCAs hit the line and can be controlled from AEW aircraft.

Agreed. Nothing groundbreaking. But doctrinally developed to be substantially part of LSCO. Here's a hypothetical. If we had the SkyGuardians right now, would we be deploying a det to Latvia as part of our EfP? Here's where I have doubts. I think something a bit smaller and thought of more...

I stand corrected. I thought they were pushed to their border agency. But I guess it's the RAAF operating them to assist the border agency. Isn't the Mojave being developed with SOCOM input? In any event, Mojave is closer to this thing (that it is supposed to replace)...

Loved this. By the way cost asymmetry has been a concept for over a decade. And really came to the fore when the Israelis used a patriot missile against a drone that you could probably buy on Amazon. There have definitely been calls to incorporate the idea into doctrinal development. But most...

Requirement: Must be able to communicate with the F-35. Contractor: We are giving you unsecured VHF radios.