>Not sure why you seem pissy, I wasn't faulting their methods. > >Do it right and half assed methods? I know they are decent infantry, >and I know they are doing great work in Afghanistan. Hell we've based >our Stryker brigade combat teams loosely on your medium wheeled units. >Now when it comes to specialist units, Airborne, Air Assault and so >forth we take the cake, hell we've got an airborne division and two >brigades, you guys have a couple of companies.
The equivalent of a fat battalion - one company from each reg forces regiment, the Queen's Own Rifles Regiment (militia), plus the special operations regiment. Given that the Canadian military is around 85,000, not including the militia, that's pretty good. > >Our manning requirements are much more severe than yours too, do you >guys even have any divisions? 14 brigade groups. > >I know we have some training weaknesses, but all you have to do is look >at how low our casualty rates are and you'll see it's not like we're >just throwing these kids to the wolves. The 4 month figure is for a >basic infantryman. The only place you'll see them is in the back of an >armored vehicle (Bradley) as dismounts. All other infantryman >(Airborne, Air Assault, javelin gunner, machine gunner, mortar, scout >sniper, riverine, ranger) have additional schooling before they get to >their units and can be certified for deployment. even then you only >know about 10% of your job, with most of your real skills coming through >OJT, which s how it's done in most professional armies around the world. > >Also you're earlier comments about mounted patrols. I wouldn't put a >cherry in the drivers seat or on the gun. They'd be in the back seat >where they can't hurt anything. Drivers should have some experience a >to what to look for when it comes to IEDs, route planning, terrain or >urban channeling, and know how to react to near and far ambush and other >situations. My basic break down would be an E-4 driving, probably E-3 >or E-4 on the gun, TC or vehicle commander in the front passenger seat >and the cherries in the back. Different training doctrine. Every soldier assigned to peace keeping duties in Cyprus was fully trained. I had to have my final portion of the RCIC advanced in order to be qualified. That also includes driver training for vehicle patrols (usually on jeeps). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:261558 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
