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  1. quadrapiper

    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Thoroughly bewildered now. A bump to the next tier's pay for the duration of the "sorry, reached down" posting would make sense.
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    The War in Ukraine

    Is what Iran has been sending properly top line, local best effort, or the sort of cheap as chips thing they'd build to send to their proxy groups?
  3. quadrapiper

    Soldier Operational Clothing and Equipment Modernization

    If it would boil down to costing the same (or more) than not worth doing. Wonder how the cost dynamic would shift if combat/field clothing was treated like more widely distributed flying clothing.
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    Soldier Operational Clothing and Equipment Modernization

    Still, a common (let's say NECU/these trial things) cut with different colours, as with the goretex jacket, should lead to some savings. Wonder how much the NECU fabric costs compared to a "normal" fabric with similar comfort and durability.
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    Soldier Operational Clothing and Equipment Modernization

    Yes, and not as amenable to starch and nonsense as the garrison dress. All garrison duties that aren't No. 3x office roles, CIC (and cadets too, for that matter... would be cheaper than continuing to produce a smaller batch of what's basically the old OG combats), and anyone/any role that...
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    South Alberta Light Horse Regiment to amalgamate with larger reserve force

    What? Not after an ethnic group that might not even have been the dominant one in the unit at formation, definitely isn't now, but comes with the fanciest uniforms available?
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    Soldier Operational Clothing and Equipment Modernization

    Do a version in brown, in a non-exotic fabric, for garrison?
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    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Looks to be further aft on Svalbard, though.
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Never really been sure why there isn't a card printer at each ID section. I'm sure they're expensive, but what's the value of getting rid of the hassle for the member, the process of mailing cards back and forth, and the NDI 10 craft project?
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Would a training platoon/company/regimental or brigade training depot/whatever delivering DP1 colocated with the units offer any useful cooperative training opportunities?
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    Soldier Operational Clothing and Equipment Modernization

    Someone's trying to bring French and Latin style to the CAF.
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    The War in Ukraine

    Has anyone asked Moldova if, perhaps, they'd like V Corps as houseguests And the one that, if I understand things correctly, was positioned in a NATO context to be the mass-producing distant arsenal of democracy, as the continental Europeans would be too busy.
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    A Deeply Fractured US

    A refusal to count could, in the US system-as-written, be akin to a vote of non-confidence, and the "confidence of the House" test to pick a PM post election. In the US system as it has evolved, it's more or less a ceremonial, or at best confirmatory, exercise.
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    Would frontloading trade-specific material (NCIOP, say) and pushing the "sailor" content (and for that matter, some or all of Basic) to an intentional WUPS/OJT scheme be a suitable "break glass in case of war" efficiency?
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    The answer to our crisis of young men? Boy Scouts

    I haven't seen much in the way of issues; local dynamics will vary, of course; and when I do see problems it's at about 13-14, then things subsequently smooth out. I'm not convinced of a compelling need for gender-segregated youth programs, but am very much in favour of ones (like cadets...
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    A Deeply Fractured US

    Unless I'm totally misunderstanding things, he'd be a candidate for impeachment once sworn in, but (and I'm probably missing something) the filtering standard for POTUS is lower than for voting, as far as having a criminal record.
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    Justin Trudeau hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    Yeah; people with a legitimate concern with the state of reporting and the communication of that reporting are usually talking about legacy media rather than "mainstream," which is a much more practical and meaningful umbrella. I'm still not sure how much of the alleged "cut" to defence...
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    Informing the Army’s Future Structure

    Wonder what a day's conventional operations translates to as far as UAS travel, since it presumably won't be all straight-line flying.
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    A Deeply Fractured US

    Not sure how an elected official making political noises is corruption.
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    Foreign interference in Canada/stretched RCMP

    How much of that's courtesy US influence? Not necessarily sinister, THEY KILLED THE ARROW TO KEEP US DOWN nonsense, but corporate nudges to avoid competition? Canada came out of WWII with a fairly healthy defence manufacturing sector. I wouldn't necessarily blame social programs so much as this...
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