Recent content by Furniture

Only get you so far, as evidenced by the recruiting and retention problems faced by most Western militaries.

Very true, but out of 60K+ CAF members, it's still a small number, and we still send people who don't really want to go, and that don't enjoy it up there. Make that number 600-900 and you're going to significantly increase the number of people who hate it, and want to get out however they can...

We only have a few people up there, and they all screen for it. It makes sense that those who make it through screening enjoy it. Double or triple the numbers and you'll likely find a lot less happy campers up there.

They have 9 years of LPC government to use, they are not short of material. If you have a tool that works, you use it, when it no longer works you use something else.

It seems interesting that they chose to go after the demographic most likely to support them. Not many working class people have second homes or cottages, but lots of upper-middle/upper class people do.

I wonder how well it will do in Canada. I suspect there will be a lot of "hate" watching, and a lot of angry posts about it all over social media.

Can't do that, might raise morale. Forcing people to move to a high cost of living area, to do a thankless, soul crushing HQ job is the CAF way.

You implied that those who enjoy a hybrid work schedule were somehow less dedicated to the CAF, and were more civil servants. I'm curious what NCR experience you have to come to that conclusion? It's not a tangent, if you'd read what I wrote you'd see that I was highlighting that all jobs have...

You seem to be under the impression that nobody in Ottawa is ever in the office, and that in-person meetings/briefings aren't occurring. That is not the case, and has not been the case since Ontario loosened it's COVID restrictions back in 2021. What is happening is people are working a day or...

Pembrooke is 1.5 hours from a city of a million. Oromocto is four hours drive from Halifax, 8 from Montreal or Boston, etc... They also aren't in the land of the midnight sun, with winters that are long and bitterly cold. True, but it's largely unpopulated and can be defended from the air...

You're making my argument... All jobs all have different hardships, and different perks. Using "sharing hardships" is a weak argument thrown out there by people who want others to have their hardships, but not wanting to acknowledge their own perks. As hard as it may be to believe, working...

I'd love to have a well funded CAF with a strong northern presence, but as Alan Jackson says "Here in the real world, it's not that easy at all". The CAF is struggling to attract and retain people now, if we move thousands up north we will definitely have an even harder time. The better...

Except amenities and opportunities don't work on population percentages, they work on raw numbers. A city of 230K has more opportunities and amenities than a city of 25K. Most of the Canadian population lives between Sarnia and Quebec City. An area that has a population density that is close...

There are 730K people in Alaska, there are 45K in Yukon, 44K in NWT, and about 39K in Nunavut. Anchorage has 230K+ residents alone. Alaska and the Canadian north are not the same beast. The big base in Alaska is outside a city about the size of Victoria, not a place the size of Charlottetown...

Why is every aviator, sailor, and soldier back at work if they can work from home? Because the SM needs to see them daily to feel special? Next time my techs are working late on a Friday with no scheduled PT I suppose the rest of the CAF should to ensure my techs don't feel left out, and stay...