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Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending
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Quirky
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....training done by the reg force which is getting smaller by the day.
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And yet the army has 2800 bodies under a Maj Gen whose sole function is to train effective troops.
Independent of the field force.
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Want to build the Canadian Forces numbers.
Simple as it gets
1) cut down the time it takes to get a recruit in the door of the armoury or the Reg Force front door. Treat recruiting like the war years, line them up, give them a physical, eye test, issue the uniforms, send them off to basic. Do the paper work as they progress thru the system, if there is a problem sort it out or dump the body at the bus station that night
2) Equipment, stop the rust collection, stop buying at the end of the life cycle. Example. Trucks, lots of trucks out there, need 1000 trucks of what ever kind. Look see what other countries in NATO are buying, if made in North America that is a bonus for us. Cheaper to have delivered. Buy 100 a year or 200 a year for 5 to 10 years, that way the life cycle of the trucks is longer. Newer trucks replace the older ones as required, but the last 200 trucks that come into use, are upgraded, have the bugs worked out. Weapons, start looking for the replacement soon as the new one is purchased and issued. FN took 40 years to replace, C7 were up graded and replaced often.
Aircraft and ships have to stop being a 2 generation purchase. 20 to 25 years and it should be gone. Once a in a lifetime purchases have to stop. The electronics and the materials are constantly changing so we should in turn be changing as the technology changes.
3) Current serving soldiers and officers, offer bonuses to re up and stay in the service. Make the family life easier by making the provinces accredited programs equal across the country, so the spouse does not have to seek employment out side of their field because the next posting does not accept the educational program as fitting to their program. A nurse, a teacher, a taxi driver license's should be the same across the country, like the RED Seal programs in trades.
4) Pay the bills of the deployments or issue advances to the troops on their claims to pay the costs, do not expect Pte Bloggin to pay his way across Europe because the Government did not think about it. A SgtMajor should be taking of the troops to make sure they are taken care of at home and overseas.
5) Stop the billing of an deployment as if the shoelaces that Pte Bloggin needed in Petawawa were different than the shoelaces he needs in Poland. His laces would of broken anyways and needed replacement anyways. Exercises and deployments have the same kind of costings. Have to feed the troops no matter what. Send the required food stuffs and the mess equipment to prepare and serve it. Make it run like a base over seas.
6) Build the numbers enough so deployments are not a yearly or every other year thing because the life cycle of the troops is going to be shorter as their home life now follows them over there too.
7) Give the Res Forces an actual job that be done and trained up in the Res training system, so they come prepared to uptrain to the level required for a deployment. I do not expect any one Res unit to have the man power available to fill an entire company or even a platoon but the Res Force in the Brigade should be able to provide a well trained Inf Platoon, or MSE Platoon or whatever is required that does not require 100% retraining and upskilled. They should be able to come and operate in the Company they are deploying with.
8) Make being a soldier again a career not a resume place holder.
Simple as it gets
1) cut down the time it takes to get a recruit in the door of the armoury or the Reg Force front door. Treat recruiting like the war years, line them up, give them a physical, eye test, issue the uniforms, send them off to basic. Do the paper work as they progress thru the system, if there is a problem sort it out or dump the body at the bus station that night
2) Equipment, stop the rust collection, stop buying at the end of the life cycle. Example. Trucks, lots of trucks out there, need 1000 trucks of what ever kind. Look see what other countries in NATO are buying, if made in North America that is a bonus for us. Cheaper to have delivered. Buy 100 a year or 200 a year for 5 to 10 years, that way the life cycle of the trucks is longer. Newer trucks replace the older ones as required, but the last 200 trucks that come into use, are upgraded, have the bugs worked out. Weapons, start looking for the replacement soon as the new one is purchased and issued. FN took 40 years to replace, C7 were up graded and replaced often.
Aircraft and ships have to stop being a 2 generation purchase. 20 to 25 years and it should be gone. Once a in a lifetime purchases have to stop. The electronics and the materials are constantly changing so we should in turn be changing as the technology changes.
3) Current serving soldiers and officers, offer bonuses to re up and stay in the service. Make the family life easier by making the provinces accredited programs equal across the country, so the spouse does not have to seek employment out side of their field because the next posting does not accept the educational program as fitting to their program. A nurse, a teacher, a taxi driver license's should be the same across the country, like the RED Seal programs in trades.
4) Pay the bills of the deployments or issue advances to the troops on their claims to pay the costs, do not expect Pte Bloggin to pay his way across Europe because the Government did not think about it. A SgtMajor should be taking of the troops to make sure they are taken care of at home and overseas.
5) Stop the billing of an deployment as if the shoelaces that Pte Bloggin needed in Petawawa were different than the shoelaces he needs in Poland. His laces would of broken anyways and needed replacement anyways. Exercises and deployments have the same kind of costings. Have to feed the troops no matter what. Send the required food stuffs and the mess equipment to prepare and serve it. Make it run like a base over seas.
6) Build the numbers enough so deployments are not a yearly or every other year thing because the life cycle of the troops is going to be shorter as their home life now follows them over there too.
7) Give the Res Forces an actual job that be done and trained up in the Res training system, so they come prepared to uptrain to the level required for a deployment. I do not expect any one Res unit to have the man power available to fill an entire company or even a platoon but the Res Force in the Brigade should be able to provide a well trained Inf Platoon, or MSE Platoon or whatever is required that does not require 100% retraining and upskilled. They should be able to come and operate in the Company they are deploying with.
8) Make being a soldier again a career not a resume place holder.
isn't it all part of the 2%
may I add that one should stop the comparative rent for pmqs. It should go back to being an advantage to the troops for the stress of being on call. One price fits all and get rid of the nickel and diming on maintenance.
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Yes, a CAF-wide standard for PMQ costs that doesn't exceed $1000/month (nice round number) for a newly built with attached/detached garage. Less if your Q is older or in worse shape. For maintenance, it depends on the base in my experience, some are better than others.
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ANNNNNNND.... she's gone 
Anand moving out of defence to new portfolio, 7 ministers leaving cabinet in upcoming shuffle: sources
Quirky
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1 Air Refuelling Operator....new trade incoming or will they just qualify contractors?
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But.... we.....ANNNNNNND.... she's gone
Anand moving out of defence to new portfolio, 7 ministers leaving cabinet in upcoming shuffle: sources
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ACSO position on the new aircraft.
Same as the ones on the current CC-150 fleet, but they’ll have to do boom operations too likely.
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ANNNNNNND.... she's gone
Anand moving out of defence to new portfolio, 7 ministers leaving cabinet in upcoming shuffle: sources
…yup, that bodes well for defence…or anything, really…
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…yup, that bodes well for defence…or anything, really…
Makes you wonder what the necessary experience and prerequisites should be for Defense Minister. A script and teleprompt reader like Anand or the Architect of Medusa? Perhaps somewhere in the middle.
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I think you're hard on Anand. It's not like she got a lot of support from her Boss or her colleagues.
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I don’t think she was a script reader. She was actually decent even before DND. I think her record at PSPC was actually pragmatically decent (which is a pretty favourable description for a Liberal cabinet minister, these days IMO).
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Yeah maybe we'll get a young forward thinking energized minister who will pull out all the stops to ensure the CAF is well staffed and equipped.....…yup, that bodes well for defence…or anything, really…
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And maybe I'll finally get that shit at a one night stand with Scarlett Johansson... we all can have our hopes and dreams I guess.
Edit: God damn you Auto Correct
. Then again, if those were the terms...
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You'd do what and where with Scarlett Johansson???
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You think you can beat her in the 100m sprint?
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Maybe he has an Alice Cooper re-enactment on his bucket list?You'd do what and where with Scarlett Johansson???
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