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I wonder what they're hitting. Looks like an old shack to me.

Let's send all the LAV6s. GDLSC needs some LAV700 orders anyways haha.

With the threat of warheads flying, I'm not so sure. I want to see the Russkis fucked up as much as the next guy but let's not forget they have the world's second most dangerous nuclear arsenal.

I wonder how they're using them? RAS/TACSEC jobs? Combat admin roles? Last ditch APC on the front? I'd be interested to read reports on what it's actually being used for and to what effect.

Idk where you're going to school pal but that certainly wasn't a thing where I went to school in the humanities (U of M), we just had a lot of debate and open enquiry.

Grand Thumb told me it was good and I believe everything that guy says lol.

In a perfect world, I agree. In the realistic world I am 100% stealing every bullet not mandated by policy from every purple trade and the RCAF and RCN to ensure my combat arms and Army centric CSS guys actually know how to fight. I hate that we have to fight for scraps but alas, here we are.

Sounds sufficient for purple trades and air force/navy types imo. What the combat arms folk need to get back into is the range practices and treating the PWTs as tests, not the yearly ammo allotment. The best times I had on the range were when we were given a few crates of expiring 5.56 and...

That is fucking dire. The BC interior is rapidly becoming a snow desert it seems.

Ah yes, many proper decisions were made in the procurement of the TAPV, AOPS, etc etc.

Major Johns knows his shit. The state of the Leopards is abysmal. A big problem was the lack of a unified maintenance plan because we had to maintain 2A4s, 2A6 and 2A4M all at the same time with our severely understrength tech pool.

Tanks are a hard sell to Canadians by both governing parties. For the Conservatives, they are maintenance heavy and very expensive. For the Liberals they serve no purpose in our "peacekeeping" public zeitgeist since they are offensive weapons first and foremost. This rationale goes for all...

You're not wrong but then at least vacant positions will mostly be filled. PS talks and people like to avoid DND. A poster above mentioned hundreds of vacancies at DND's procurement shops. Spreading them to the regions will get those spots filled as people fight for those Fed jobs. It won't...

I use that as a general example but your point is taken. Ottawa having a death grip on all things DND certainly isn't helping.

They should strive to spread work out to the regions. It's tough to find DND procurement staff in Ottawa. It's hard, thankless work that often gets canned under your feet after you put three years into a project. People jump ship to different departments. A solution in my book is to spread out...

In your opinion, would it be better at the platoon or company level as a tool in the toolbox? Like attach them to the weapons dets?

There is currently an Bill tabled to created something similar, C-386. That said, it's a Tory Private Members Bill so it has about as much hope getting to second reading as a Bill to award me $1000000

Colour me convinced.

Not to mention it's frequently far more dangerous than most deployments. 30 consecutive days would be appropriate imo.

Apparently the Ukrainians have cut off a BTG or so worth of troops in Vovchansk. They're hunkered in a chemical plant and are getting pounded by Ukrainian glide bombs. The irony...