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Slow all day; okay tonight. 🍻

For me most of yesterday was quite good. Late in the evening it started to respond slowly and was the same way this morning when I came on.

Too many people - no way. Too many units - one can certainly argue that - but amalgamation is also the history of unsuccessful reserve restructures. 🍻

The K9 does not meet the RFI's required highway speed of 80kmph. If the army wants to consider tracked SPs - and I urge them to do so - they need to bring that speed down to around 55 kmph. Iltis was basically a replacement for the M151. We had M151 as rovers in the M109 batteries - BC, FOOs...

IMHO, Canada can't afford NOT to buy and maintain a fleet of fighting vehicles that it expects the reserves to go to war with. To say we can't afford proper equipment for the reserves misses the point of a reserve force. In a modern army there is an absolute need for reserve personnel and...

You do not need many people for a C3 gun salute. Three will do. A number 1, 2 and 4. In fact you can do it with 2 if pushed with the number 1 doubling as the number 4. You need to double man the guns to bring them into and out of action but firing a salute is dirt simple. You can literally...

Experience vary. Mine were in Toronto in Queen's Park and in Winnipeg - always out in the public eye. Yeah. I see where cheap is in with the CF. Don't know when I've last seen a recruiting TV ad or a billboard. But I guess applicants aren't the problem. Throughput is. 🍻

No but its not that far away. GDLS is out by London Airport which is bounded to the east by lots of farmland. Pricey farm land. 🍻

World's 9th largest GDP. China and India are larger but not included so that makes us 7 of 7 in the G7. 🍻

Civilians care more about pomp and circumstance than many in the military appreciate. I'll put it to you this way. To be relevant to others you must be seen. You can see that within the CF where capabilities that are not seen by the general part of the military population are frequently...

You do know that you are wrong. Right? :giggle:

Pretty much everyone knows me to be a tracked fan. While the RFI does not specify a preference for wheeled, it does have a minimum highway speed requirement of 80 kmph which leaves out every tracked SP. We've had the argument about the validity of this requirement upthread and I won't restate it...

I don't expect it to be an every weekend thing. I expect most of their dry training and small arms training to be in their local areas. Was in 2 RCHA for four years when we had batteries bus in from Guelph, Hamilton, Brantford, Toronto, Ottawa and the Sault - signed over F Bty's guns and...

You only need three to fire the M777 - everyone else does ammo. Autoloader SPs have notoriously small ammo magazines. They will need frequent reloading. Since guns are mobile forward rearming points have to be mobile with redundancy. There may - I repeat - may - be a saving in PYs, but when you...

It's dead simple to store three or four C3s in the basement or floor of an armory. Maintenance by technicians is near 0 if all that they are used for is saluting. Enough 105mm blanks take up a tiny fraction of TDM storage space. Management of the system would be a tiny secondary task. Training...

We're left with 33 of which 24 are actively used by the three RCHA regiments, with the rest as spares and with the RCAS. The project is a major gain in operational guns. How big a gain depends on how many are bought at the end of the day and whether or not the M777s will be retained or disposed...

Its been good all day. BZ.

Agree whole heartedly if you mean the number of PYs and authorized ResF positions. Its re-organization should be up for grabs, however. 🍻

Unfortunately half of my family drinks Coors albeit brewed under licence in Toronto. The other half drinks German, Dutch, Belgian and Austrian. We're not very good supporters of Canadian home grown brew since Red Cap went under. 🍻