Not to throw more mud in the fray but (and I recognize most of these questions are going to be above everyone's paygrade, but, since I dont see any gold leafs around here...):
1) How much of a problem do we really have? Put another way, how much of it is it based on immediate and pressing need to have more infantry troops to deploy?
2) How long until (ballpark guesses are expected) we are able to sustain required volumes of troops? Essentially, how long would this measure have to go on for, or would it be quasi-permanent?
3) How long to implement anything realistically? From today until additional 31 troops on the ground wherever we want them?
4) What is the likelyhood of us having a new federal government in the interim who decides we are cutting back our presence (and thus optempo)? (I realize this sort of belongs in another thread, but I mean, with recent polling data showing over half of Canadians feel we are not succeeding in Afghanistan, and with the Cons coming into budget season soon with budget amendments that are not popular with any of the other parties.... a non-confidence motion could easily happen next spring). Perhaps better aligned with the thread; if optempo were reduced by a new government marginally or even considerably... would we still need to readjust manning along the lines discussed here?
5) the capbadge and beret thing is nothing new, and does not exist solely in the military world. I used to have customer service staff who worked under me who were revolting because we wanted them to upsell and do "sales". They didn't sign up for it, and its not what was familiar, so they dragged their feet and made what should have been a very marginal training/learning curve become near impossible.
1) How much of a problem do we really have? Put another way, how much of it is it based on immediate and pressing need to have more infantry troops to deploy?
2) How long until (ballpark guesses are expected) we are able to sustain required volumes of troops? Essentially, how long would this measure have to go on for, or would it be quasi-permanent?
3) How long to implement anything realistically? From today until additional 31 troops on the ground wherever we want them?
4) What is the likelyhood of us having a new federal government in the interim who decides we are cutting back our presence (and thus optempo)? (I realize this sort of belongs in another thread, but I mean, with recent polling data showing over half of Canadians feel we are not succeeding in Afghanistan, and with the Cons coming into budget season soon with budget amendments that are not popular with any of the other parties.... a non-confidence motion could easily happen next spring). Perhaps better aligned with the thread; if optempo were reduced by a new government marginally or even considerably... would we still need to readjust manning along the lines discussed here?
5) the capbadge and beret thing is nothing new, and does not exist solely in the military world. I used to have customer service staff who worked under me who were revolting because we wanted them to upsell and do "sales". They didn't sign up for it, and its not what was familiar, so they dragged their feet and made what should have been a very marginal training/learning curve become near impossible.
