Recent content by markppcli

I think it’s also just a massive increase in complexity, weight, and cost for a SPH to build them off of IFV / APC hulls that are armoured for resisting direct fire and have power trains built to do an entirely different job.

Well obviously I have no experience in the NCR, nor will I likely ever. For which I am deeply thankful as I don’t think I’d financially survive. I admit I probably came off to strong in my wording. You’re right no one in the combat arms has ever worked nights. My comment was that the entire...

Glad to hear it, I was basing that off what the previous commenter had said. Where did I say this? What I said was that expecting to work the same way that civilian civil servants does probably says a lot about how a service member, I never said you, views their actual role. You chose to...

The CAF is a job about humans working with and leading humans, fundamentally. While we had to temporarily set that aside, for a national health emergency, those skills do atrophy. Every base is back to working on site. Bde / Div staffs are showing up to work, talking to each other, briefing in...

It’s a bit of a chicken and egg. There’s a strong argument that the virtual abandonment of down towns during Covid has created this whole mess affecting down towns across the country. Stores are boarded up, less people around = more crime and delinquency.

Possibly more that if every Aviator, Sailor and Soldier is now expect to be at work in person than surely those the lead them ought to be as well. Something about knowing your troops and sharing their hardships?

For clarity that leadership comment wasn’t supposed to come off as being at you in any way shape or form

I’m sure @FJAG will be in here shortly, but you can be charged as a Class A reservist, and you can be ordered to attend that charge. It’s not an easy task to charge anyone, but some times we have to be willing to do hard things. Some might call it leadership.

Some of the CAF meme pages are reporting LT Patrick Whites NAVRES division, I suspect they’re trying to get the name of Officer X out in public. This whole thing is an own goal, in trying to protect a member and their reputation the NAVRRS division in question has now created a public affairs...

Only it’s objectively not built to do what you said. It’s not meant to do pretty much anything we expect a light tank to do. Rather it’s meant to provide limited direct fire support to the air borne and air assault divisions. The 105 has been an obsolete tank gun since the mid 80s, the armour...

This take is precisely the problem with the Booker. It’s not a tank. Was not designed to be a tank. Does not fulfil the role of a tank in any way shape or form. Yet it looks like a tank, and therefore will be employed as a tank. He isn’t, but the tank still has to be able to withstand...

I’m sure this is occupying an incredible amount of otherwise useful man hours.

Possible, bearing in mind every LAV I was in in Afghan was loaded straight HE in both bins as I recall that may have had something to do with problems punching holes. As a guy who does the RCAF effects for the army kinda business…. That’s not the case at all. At 0 point in any of our doctrine...

Well the army that uses Warriors most certainly doesn’t use M113s. The Germans have 37 left, I don’t think it’s really in front line use as an APC anymore. Well they never had AMX 10Ps in Africa, the VAB and VBL operated (and still operate) there. Those weren’t part of the VCBI program, rather...

Respectfully it’s not what they did at all. They up armoured the Vikings because that’s what 3 Cdo had. While in Afghanistan they proved to be effective and they stayed, frankly because they were already there. While it was deployed, it wa employed alongside other vehicles by the “armour support...