>Larry was in the Canadian military, they must do it pretty different. Yes they do it right and don't use half-assed methods. The Canadian army may be small but they're good.
I started off in the Canadian militia (equivalent to the national guard but more professional). I then got into the Reserve Officer University Training Program (a good way to get through school courtesy of the government). After I finished my committment I decided that the military was not for me. The Canadian military is darned good, just look at its record, and its members consider themselves having a reputation to uphold. And despite the decades of neglect its still a very effective military. Or at least that's what the Taliban are finding out. As an FYI, the Canadians in Afghanistan have a proportionately far higher casualty rate than any other allied force in either Iraq or Afghanistan. > >You can go from the street to war in about 4 months min, considering in >processing time, schooling, pcs move to your new unit, and deployment. You can do it in four months, you mostly have cannon fodder but it can be done. To really have a trained infantry man, it takes at least 6 months (basic plus the first half of the RCIC). > >Now you have a limit of how many people you can push through in that 4 >months. Space that over three years and you get battalions and brigades >being built. You can clone the battalions by taking the 2IC's all the way down the line to section leaders and bumping them up one grade. Along with some experienced senior enlisted ranks you can flesh out a battalion relatively quickly. There will be teething problems, but those units would be ready in in about a year and a half. \ >Aside: I was reading something the other day about our civil war. id >you know the Union Army occupied the confederate states for 10 years >after their victory. A lot of that however was the vindictive nature of the Federal and Reconstruction governments of the time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:261545 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
