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Are you suggesting removing the "Asshole" PO from MARS training?

Dan Ross never understood that he was in the delivery, not requirements definition, business. He was also one of the most reliable sources "DND sources report that..." quotes for the media ever.

The challenge: post unit CWOs will likely need the writing and analytical skills that ALP should deliver. When is the best time to provide them? Why not do it earlier?

CO plausible deniability is a hell of a drug.

The C130 and C17 user communities enter the chat.

From an industrial offsets / maintenance of the defence industrial base perspective, offshoring heavy maintenance is a bug, not a feature.

Look, this is the internet. Wild conjecture and deranged ravings are OK, but stop bringing logic and reason to the discussion.

Someone who won three elections (yes, I know, the Conservatives lost three) gets a lot of consideration.

There is no good answer for housing in the short term. Higher rates? Folks who are heavily leveraged who bought because of FOMO will lose their homes, something no government wants on their watch. Lower rates? Without new supply (and we'd need to double current building to make a dent in pent...

Lessons learned, regardless of where, are dependent on leaving egos at the door an acknowledging what went wrong and where mistakes were made. That can be seen as attacks against people, senior people, and therefore CAF LL is often self-congratulatory nonsense that refuses to have hard...

The RCN sounds like NASA in late January 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report

New iPad for 2Lts.

Every year the CAF is shocked to discover that annual things happen. "Remembrance Day? When is that happening?"

Question: Does the updated MRP recognize APS as a planning factor? Or do we continue to certify units as "ready", then post out large swaths of leadership, replacing them with new leaders who did not complete the workup training?

209.295 –Transportation Assistance for Reserve Force Personnel on Class "A" Reserve Service https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/policies-standards/compensation-benefits-instructions/chapter-209-transportation-expenses.html#sec-209-29

There's a difference between entry training and employment constructs.

Pro tip: the drive isn't as bad if you're in an old CAF pickle bus, still massively hung over from a birthday party that went well past last call at Earthquake Annie's the night before

The fires caused by a machine gun course firing tracer despite an extremely elevated fire index? Those fires?

Bases should have access to training areas. The scope of training areas will vary - what's needed for a sub unit for a week is not what's needed for a brigade for a month, for example. Sticking a unit in the middle of nowhere so they can be adjacent a training area they use 60 days a year may...