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The returns that I've been hearing from the guys just back are not at all positive about the Dutch.  The best that I've heard is "well, they're the best of the continental Europeans, and maybe if I could get past their ear-rings and long hair and goatees, they'd be decent soldiers."  In the same...

Hear, Hear. I look at my own corps and can see the damage caused to the troops from the lack of troops.  Look at your average engineer Sgt and you'll see a guy with a rack of medals that puts most WW2 veterans to shame (at least in number, if not intensity).  They've been on the 1 year on, 2...

for those who are interested, there's actually a series of books entitled "What if..." that are about counterfactual histories, written by some of the world's top military historians.  Examples include Alexander being killed early on in his conquests, the greeks losing at Thermopylae, the German...

While others have commented on the topic from a practical perspective, I'll take this on from the theoretical one.  1.  Corporals are, like it or not, doers, and for the most part, what you get with a 10 year corporal, on the average, isn't much different from what you get with a 4th year...

Scott Reid's not worth the effort.  This clown is arguably one of the most incompetent spin doctors operating in high canadian politics. Rule #1 of spin doctoring: don't let yourself become the story.  How many of you remember Mr Beer and popcorn...

another Hillier as next CDS...If you ask me, the next guy who's going to get the nod will be the second McNaughton to be CDS (Leslie).  Yes, that's another army guy, and yes, that's unprecedented, and yes, the other branches are going to howl.  He'll be a good CDS, although he'll have a much...

Just to stir things up a bit, how much does it change if the drugs in question are steroids?  Discuss.

The maximum fine is determined by who heard your trial.  If it was a delegated officer (ie. company commander), then the maximum fine to a reservist is 25% of monthly pay.  A CO can give you a lot more- up to 60% of monthly pay.  Because reservists are paid on a daily and not monthly rate, this...

As it's from Senlis, read with the usual caveats.

That's right.  The following is happening (West to East): 6 FES, 44 FES, 54 ESS  --> 39 CER 8 FER, 33 FES --> 41 CER 2 FER --> 32 CER 3 FES --> 33 CER 9 EGC, 3 FER --> 34 RGC 10 EGC  --> 35 RGC The interesting thing out of this is that it's likely to create a few more LCol and CWO positions...

This news is a couple of weeks old, but I thought it would be worth mentioning that George Blackburn died recently.  For those of you who don't know who he was- he was an Arty offr in the second world war, who by the war's end, held the Canadian record for longest service as a FOO (I guess that...

A study group on Afghanistan could be valuable, if only to highlight the ignorance of most of the commentariat.  That said, they didn't recognize the nonsense on stilts of the ISG for what it was, so perhaps not. In that spirit- time for a fisking: - the ISG challenged the "stay the course"...

For those of you who are interested, the MOOs for the new reserve regimental names, mirroring the brigade numbers were signed off last week (ie. 33 CER, 34 RGC). So, as soon as the CFOO is complete (give it a couple of months to work through the system), there will be a whole bunch of new...

It's absolutely legitimate.  McTeague's one of my sappers, and the Capt Johnston referred to in the article is his AO. The idea for the fund came from the recognition that there's this gap between what the system will pay for and what guys need.  Ideally, this gap shouldn't exist- but there's...

Interesting item.  I came upon the ROD for a recent CLS meeting (might have been army council- it's not at my fingertips), but one of the resolutions was that the pioneer specialty be revived within the infantry, specifically to allow engineers to put greater focus into horizontal/ vertical...

With the current awarding of individual honours for valour, we seem to have returned to a place where the recognition for engagement with the enemy is acceptable again.  So, the question is- if it works at the individual level, why not at the unit level? In other words, are there some Battle...

Number 2 is intriguing to me.  It doesn't exist now because the CF has typically been a steady state, government job like all the rest.  You don't provide inducement to people who would stay anyways.  With the current pace of activity, I'm not so sure that model continues to hold.  We're...

There's a screaming need for a better approach to CT these days.  The issue isn't so bad at the Pte level, but moreso as the rank level increases.  As many rightly point out, this is all done on a case by case basis.  Beyond the boards though, there's also the issue of what happens on arrival at...

Actually, there is a recognition of this, and the rules are either out, or soon to be out that Op Tours should not constitute a negative on the merit boards- including the fact that if a soldier missed a planned course due to tour, that acting/lacking would be considered if all other factors...

Obviously, the statement was either not well thought out, or did not capture the full expression of the thought behind it. If he's saying that soldiers shouldn't have to do multiple tours in a short time, sure.  If it's no multiple tours at the same rank level, then that's perhaps also...