dapaterson said:At historical levels, actually... 7%(+/-) attrition.
Halifax Tar said:I have a hard time believing that. But I am willing to eat crow if I am wrong. Have a link for those stats ?
PPCLI Guy said:564 Billion dollars (80% of which will be borrowed, as the deficit is 446B) buys you a lot of things - including over 2 million people in uniform and 1.4 million civilian and contractors. They have the critical mass that makes PXs and lifetime health care make sense. We do not.
As an aside, our military spending represents 120% of our deficit, (19B vs 25B).
Flavus101 said:I found an open source report: http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_201611_05_e_41834.html#p109
5.109 Actual attrition. In the 2014–15 and the 2015–16 fiscal years, the Regular Force lost 5,487 and 4,804 members respectively, which represented about 8 percent and 7 percent of the total number of members in the Regular Force in each of the respective years. We found that attrition rates varied significantly among occupations and were particularly high in some. In the 2015–16 fiscal year, 23 occupations had attrition rates higher than 10 percent.
5.110 We found that whereas the total number of members leaving the Regular Force had outpaced the number of enrolments between the 2011–12 and 2014–15 fiscal years, this trend reversed in the 2015–16 fiscal year. We found that the total number of people leaving during the 2011–12 to 2014–15 fiscal years was about 2,400 more than the total of enrolments. Although the total number of people leaving was 500 fewer than the total number of enrolments in the 2015–16 fiscal year, we observed that in 44 occupations, the number of people leaving had still outpaced enrolments, as it had in the 2014–15 fiscal year.
dapaterson said:Attrition, its causes, models to predict it and such are interesting and important topics; I don't think this is the correct thread to discuss it.
Eye In The Sky said:Does this mean we can't do *something* small for deployed OPs? IIRC you've been to Camp Canada. Sustained op now, would it really kill to set up a small Tim's? Put it next to the barber, put it over on the LSA side. A small touch of home that I think a lot of people would take advantage of...Green Bean is good but Tim's is Tim's ( I don't drink it myself regularly...just using as an example).
dapaterson said:There are provisions in the policy to provide different pricing, where warranted, for shift workers. As for lugging kit on the bus: been there, done that. (Or buy a buddy a beer and carpool or... many ways around such problems)
And yes, driving to work is often a choice. In Shilo, Wainwright or Cold Lake? No. In a major urban centre? Yes. And note that in those remote areas, there is no fee for parking...
Life is about making choices. If you choose to have a large house on a big piece of property far outside town, then that's a choice you made. If that choice means you have to drive to work instead of taking a bus or subway (in an urban area where that's an option) - that was your choice as well.
On to "The government pays for that" comment. How wonderful. Government gets its money from where, exactly? (Hint: Look at your T4) Maybe the people who benefit from it (the folks who drive in and park on the lot) should pay for it?
PPCLI Guy said:Or, we could be on ops, and do our job, without a "small Tims". Camp Canada and Mirage 2.0 is hardly a tough go....
PPCLI Guy said:Or, we could be on ops, and do our job, without a "small Tims". Camp Canada and Mirage 2.0 is hardly a tough go....
Journeyman said:I'll save some bandwidth by pre-emptively adding, "the author doesn't have a clue what he's talking about because the numbers haven't been released." :
Journeyman said:The Canadian Global Affairs Institute has published a 2017 Defence Budget Primer, which provides some points on things to consider ahead of the 22 March budget release date.
I'll save some bandwidth by pre-emptively adding, "the author doesn't have a clue what he's talking about because the numbers haven't been released." :
jmt18325 said:That was directed at me. I thought it was a good article, btw (even though he does actually have little if any idea what will actually happen, just like almost everyone else in the world).