Recent content by WinnipegFella

In our armoury the messes are often used as classes. Lots of PD, lectures, seminars, etc.

You guys might find this interesting. Private Members Bill to create a DOMOPS medal. It would be worth emailing the member who tabled the Bill and your own MP if you think this should exist. Despite being called the SSM in the title, the Bill mentions the creation of a new medal and ribbon...

4000 for the CAF out of the 30000 being struck. So fucking stupid. Just don't bother if we can't give them to everyone. A whole bunch of Liberal donors and allies will get medals for doing nothing.

Opportunity for reconciliation haha.

Damn, unit messes? I agree with the premise of rank segregated messes but that's just silly.

Well written and an interesting concept. A couple questions though, as I'm trying to fully understand your concept. How do you envision infrastructure? Build new super armouries or use the existing reserve armouries? Where do you see reserve rank progression going, I know a lot of people on...

The model was probably viable when single income families were possible. Pretty damn tough these days, especially if the Qs keep getting rarer and more expensive.

Please elaborate, I'm intrigued.

That was your situation, hardly the universal situation. Your reserve unit was shit, that does not mean all of them are. Anecdote is not evidence obviously but I can think of way more Reg to Res CTs currently than the other way, however that said, that could be confirmation bias on my part as...

Gen Kill as fuck

Pretty sure it's only one Armour Sqn, no chance in hell we have enough runners in the RCAC to forward deploy a second Sqn while being able to keep up the training cycle. The other RCAC contribution seems to be the bde C/S 6 Sqn which seems to be a mix of RegF and ARes inf and armd. At least that...

Tomato tomato. There was a 50/50 split of opinion on it with the Regs I would work with. Some were on one side of your question, some on others. All I know is more and more Regs seem to be catching on, CTing to the MO in their home towns and working Class B jobs. Their lives seem to improve...

Currently I'm a "true reservist" working my class a days and weekends along with a couple LWOPs a summer for some unit and brigade training but I was a Class B commando for a while, it was fucking dope. Between a great workplace culture and fun work, I loved being a Class B Army guy. I fault no...

You'd be stupid not to be the class B reservist if you wanted to be a full time soldier without the bullshit. You get to be a full time soldier at the regiment of your choosing, in the position of your choosing, in the city and province of your choosing that will have infinitely more amenities...

Ramp ceremonies have that tendency.