Recent content by Maybee

As I understand the procurement process - PWSGC and the Treasury board are involved in addition to DND's own bureaucracy. Complicating matters further all those departments have staff rotational cycles that are not in sync. Meaning the PWSGC guy who was working on the TV project (or whatever...

Yeah. Roger that. Anyways I found a pair of articles that described the difficulties facing the US NG and Reserve elements. Plus a government report.  Basically well worded legislation that provides some sort of incentive to the employer seems to be the solution. That and as much predictability...

All good posts here so far. I am researching this for my day job as well as personal interest. Unlike some posters I have not been able to find any solid evidence from the US experience (with the exception of one credible anecdote) about hiring discrimination. If anyone knows where I can find...

For what it's worth the suggestion that Majoor made has been tried with some success at least once by my unit. The Coyotes set up in a screen and then tell the jeeps (no milcots or suvs please) to " go look at that". Works like a charm. The bonus is that if you get into a contact the worst that...

Unless you are some sort of SF guy all concentration exercises are a great opportunity to shake the rust off and get some (simulated) trigger time. If the Iron Talon series that 32 CBG put on are any indication of how well VG06 is going to be...I wouldn't want to miss it. Train to fight, fight...

To address Kirkhill's point: The rapid expansion that you are talking about was the first and second world wars methinks. Both of those were stage four mobilizations where the reserve (militia) units flushed out from their usual sub unit size to full regiments and battalions. As far as I know...

Apologies to all if this topic is covered somewhere else (yes I tried searching). Does anyone have a suggestion for someone who can do Court Mounting of Medals, and provide Ribbons and minis? This would ideally be someone in the Toronto area who has done decent (verifiable) work before. And is...

Apologies to all if this has been covered. The first time I was on tour I seem to recall an aide memoire that had patrol orders formats that were specific to things like Presence patrols. Or at least were specific to the "less than war" style of patrolling. Anybody out there have an electronic...

Really no market? I bet you that said reporter would have to link but one article to this page to get a reasonable following going. I know that I would buy any media publication that could correctly identify and/or factually report about the CF. On a related note how many times have you hurled...

Infanteer posted that one. I agree handles strike a nice balance between a little familiarity (part of the team, good troop etc) and the important distance between the soldiers and the leadership cadre. On a completely unrelated note that quote for your signature isn't from the novel "Gates of...

Mr Wallace. Classic! Since you put it that way...funny how a good analogy can clear something in your head pretty quickly. Thanks for that. :)

Geo, That of course makes sense. But say you were an infanteer augmenting a Reg F BN on it's way somewhere and they needed LAV III drivers. Would it be unreasonable as said augmentee to expect a shot at that course? From earlier posts it also seemed that the augmentee's parent unit was still...

Thanks for the clarification Unknown C/S! I gather that was what Mr Wallace was trying to get across to me as well.

Ok I get it. I agree with you from a procedural point of view. My point was that people in the Battle Group were being coursed (Reg F guys) in order to get them up to spec for the deployment. Why then not include some reserve soldiers on those same courses? Since they are being run anyways does...

You didn't happen to serve in that unit did you? I am interested in getting in touch with them and the official channels seem to be occupied...any advice?