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Now you've gone and done it... provided a rational explanation that will shut down all the bitching from irrelevant people like me
No more rifles on drill/grad parade?
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Now you've gone and done it... provided a rational explanation that will shut down all the bitching from irrelevant people like me
RangerRay
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As I stated above, all cutting weapons drill from BMQ/BMOQ will lead to is pushing that onto the tight schedules at trades training, or at units that are operational all the time (eg aircraft maintainers). It’s like robbing Peter to pay Paul, in a way.
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Now you've gone and done it... provided a rational explanation that will shut down all the bitching from irrelevant people like me
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You. You are why we won the Cold War.
I am not speaking to just rifle drill. Just drill. And it’s concepts. You can have rifle drill or no rifle drill that part does not matter in the grand schem. Ditching drill altogether on BMQ does though.
Military training systems have been studied ad nauseam. If drill was useless you can bet that most professional fighting forces would have dropped it by now as a building block for discipline.
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The Soviets took one look at clearing point drill at RRMC and said “we want no part of that”.
Iron curtain comes down. Boom.
Brad Sallows
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And so with the Soviets defeated, we could close RRMC.
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That or Little Ivan the Cultural Exchange Cadet partook in a round of 'Saracens vs Indians'The Soviets took one look at clearing point drill at RRMC and said “we want no part of that”.
Iron curtain comes down. Boom.
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See, you have this whole correlation/causality thing all figured out.
Plus, the X-Men needed an HQ…
daftandbarmy
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I hear they had to move it becases the Peacocks were keeping them awake.
There's a difference between vigilance and terminal sleep deprivation
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Great, you found a ceremonial unit. Now do the 300,000 mobilized soldiers fighting and dying.
There are a lot of assertions being made on both sides without one bit of objective evidence or empirical data related to effectiveness and discipline. Also, I haven't seen a convincing distinction made between drills at large (some of which are important), battle drill (which is what army small unit manoeuvre is built upon), and ceremonial drill, which is really a form of vestigial battle drill. If we have battle drill, what forms of ceremonial drill, and how much, are worth maintaining?
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How many mobilized troops for the Alberta fires are doing drill right now? Be realistic.
People are making assertions about drill on BMQ and somehow equating that with what the CAF does on a daily basis everyday all day. Because they were likely tasked or asked to do a parade maybe once or twice a year and didn’t like it.
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Wouldn't it be cool if we modernized ceremonial drill to be more like battle drill
Brad Sallows
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Maybe just do public appearances in drag, and check off another box.
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Wouldn't it be cool if we modernized ceremonial drill to be more like battle drill
Ceremonial close order drill with rifles is literally 1700s battle drill.
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