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Joining the reserves as an officer can be tricky though. There are generally very few ‘off the street’ positions available for new recruits to come in as an officer. It may simply not be an option open to him now or in the near future.

I’ve been out for almost five years; my recollections and observations are dated. I recommend against releasing and re-enrolling; it’s not a shortcut. You could release on Thursday and reapply next Tuesday and the system would bog down verifying your former service. In the regular force, your...

Drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and proxies oh lots of the first two. Interesting Twitter source: Iranian focused reporter working out of Spain. Twitter has a useful built in translation tool. He’s reporting potential hits near nuclear sites and seems to be ahead of English...

In an urban PRes unit, figure half the junior troops are probably university students. I saw a few switched on young Cpls with 3-4 years who were able to make the jump to officer. Not saying it’s easy or likely, but PRes units have more individual freedom at unit level to fill their officer...

First 24 hour rule is in effect. Assume everything is bullshit unless independently and multiply corroborated. Remember that you’ll see 40 Twitter accounts breathlessly quoting “reports of…”, but they’ll all be plagiarizing the first report to hit, probably from a relatively unknown quantity...

I fall mostly into this category as you describe. Appears he’s been banned, likely for admitting to harvesting screenshots. I don’t believe there was any good faith to be found in his sudden return to this site. No loss; at least, none worth the hassle.

Is there any reason not to just apply to join the reserves as an officer cadet in the officer trade that interests you? It’s normal in the reserves to have new officers who are still going through university on their own dime. Now, you would have to be competitive of course- but there’s nothing...

Be great to see Ukraine sneak some of these into the Baltics or the Med. Or even the Pacific if they could somehow pull it off. Make no Russian navy vessel safe.

The smoothest of brains, that one…

You’ve still ignored repeated questions about where you stand on Hamas’ attack of October 7th, and how it was conducted- that being the original subject of this thread. Silence can be loud when it speaks.

Yup. Easier said than done, unfortunately. Hamas and its mindset need to go- but it’s not realistic to make any future rapprochement contingent on this being completely or mostly accomplished before any reciprocal steps by Israel. The West Bank settler situation is the obvious low hanging fruit...

Classified briefings don’t muzzle; they merely cause you to need to do the work to speak within the limits or what’s classified and what’s not in appropriate fora. Thousands of Canadians working in national security and defense do this every day. Information is regularly sanitized, downgraded...

That doesn’t square with reality; by your reasoning no free society can possibly exist. Social consequences are implicit in any society, or any gathering of humans. You are free to both associate and to disassociate. If I’m, say, an employer, and one of my employees goes viral for some racist...

I would hope so, but it would be nice if he walked in the door ready to go, and if for the next year and a bit the opposition could contribute maturely to the discourse from a position of being adequately informed, or at least guided by someone who is. It’s a hell of a big subject to play catch...

I’m just going with the context and flow of the thread. Your post was reasonably specific:

Goons will be at your door shortly.

It varies.

The talk was of rights, and of government censorship; not social consequences or employers/groups disassociating themselves from views they don’t feel reflect their values.

If you’ve paid enough attention to recent events, it would be obvious to you that my criticism is not limited to the leader of the opposition. I’ve even alluded to that already in the thread. Given that intelligence officials are offering the briefings, I accept their judgment that the need to...

So like the PM or any senior member of government would? I would hope that anyone wanting to lead the country can be discrete. It is absolutely possible to raise concerns and to debate government policy without compromising classified material. Right; staying ignorant of classified national...