Mid-Career Army Officer

🇨🇦 Army Officer. Carl Gustav enthusiast. Mostly jokes but some thoughts about doctrine, leadership, culture, & tech.

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[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

I like to write threads with funny gifs about Canadian Armed Forces culture, doctrine, and management issues - mostly late at night to avoid sleeping. This is a meta 🧵 of 🧵:

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@m_Janelle @LatinMilAv @CDNPolicyHawk @NoahGairn @DFChant @CanadianVetsABC @ItsDeanBlundell @CanadianCoffey @SteveDaly15 @MikeTheNavyGuy1 @YarvinBiodiesel @AlexRMcColl @JesseTweeting @Drake_Marcus @SpencerFernando @TrueEager @UberJumper One of the biggest tasks for 2 Div is going to be figuring out the best investments for both RegF and Class B positions to maximize the value to the reserve program. That likely doesn't mean symmetry!

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@m_Janelle @LatinMilAv @CDNPolicyHawk @NoahGairn @DFChant @CanadianVetsABC @ItsDeanBlundell @CanadianCoffey @SteveDaly15 @MikeTheNavyGuy1 @YarvinBiodiesel @AlexRMcColl @JesseTweeting @Drake_Marcus @SpencerFernando @TrueEager @UberJumper The Army will need to put greater controls in place. Over 80% of the reserve pay budget is going to Class B. We are spending more than enough to support a proper full time cadre, and yet here we are, cancelling contracts, with no central visibility as to what we got for that $.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@LatinMilAv @m_Janelle @CDNPolicyHawk @NoahGairn @DFChant @CanadianVetsABC @ItsDeanBlundell @CanadianCoffey @SteveDaly15 @MikeTheNavyGuy1 @YarvinBiodiesel @AlexRMcColl @JesseTweeting @Drake_Marcus @SpencerFernando @TrueEager @UberJumper @1963Canuck While I personally hate that any of this happened, the reality is the Army has overused local short term contacts of up 364 days. It was never reliable employment and it needs to be gripped.

Reserve members need to be part-time, or, in properly approved & baseline funded posns.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@LatinMilAv @m_Janelle @CDNPolicyHawk @NoahGairn @DFChant @CanadianVetsABC @ItsDeanBlundell @CanadianCoffey @SteveDaly15 @MikeTheNavyGuy1 @YarvinBiodiesel @AlexRMcColl @JesseTweeting @Drake_Marcus @SpencerFernando @TrueEager @UberJumper @1963Canuck If the goal is to increase the Army Reserve size, and add a new component, while buying ships, subs, F-35s, etc, the simple option of add more money is unlikely.

Instead the Army needs to get tight control of existing $625M envelope and ensure part-time is funded first.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@Ursus_Maior I always find there is a percentage of both soldiers and observers who argue that vehicles like this aren't enough and demand purpose built, heavier military vehicles.

But like you know, the comparison is usually against rental vans and walking, not a better vehicle!

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

I am once again suggesting that given the current political, security, and industrial environments that Canada simply hits the 'Brampton go brrrrr' button and motorize the entire Army Reserve in Senator MRAPs.

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

A damaged Roshel Senator armored vehicle evacuates Ukrainian warriors in the Pokrovsk direction, after being hit by an FPV drone.

This is an extraordinary and powerful moment—the Senator brought our fighters back despite significant damage.

📹: @ng_ukraine

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@YKTrekkie Twice the price in three times the delivery schedule - that's the Canadian defence promise.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

Lieutenant Justin Boyes

2009-10-28

Never forgotten.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@DivebumChef @C_Somos Pay delays don't impact eligibility for any benefits tied to Class C service. If a member was injured after the official start date of Class C service, but before a pay hitting their account, they would still be entitled to any Class C benefits.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@C_Somos For your original question - some resources:

https://t.co/5MDZIWjFbE

There's also two options for income replacement, depending if an injured member is on a Class B or C contract:

https://t.co/O9wnNXNgN1

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@Cody_FE98 @C_Somos Generally it's done when being attached to a RegF unit for a deployment, which means 9-12 months Class C pay on average. In that context a few weeks delay is manageable, and the host unit is responsible.

Shorter Class C tasks like domestic ops or NANOOK work less well, clearly.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@C_Somos Not defending the timeline, but the delay comes from the fact that Class C contracts need to be paid out of the Regular Force pay system, which individual reserve units don't have access to as most Reserve service is Class A & B.

Next gen pay will be a single system for both.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@NoLore @Zozmachine 20 years in the Army including designing complex ranges in Wainwright.

It is incredibly common for live fire training to start grass fires in the training area within any military base. The fires aren't deliberately set, but rather are ignited by the ammunition being fired.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@DirtyLeg79 Extended line sweep through the permanent impact area!

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@RobACooper It's disgusting - so many grifters trying to profit off a tragedy before we've even buried our dead.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

Something I'll never understand is that we live in a world where billionaires & trillionaires manipulate politics, culture & economy to get richer at the cost of humanity's health & prosperity - but instead of dealing with that - people just make up dumb conspiracy theories.

[Mid-Career Army Officer @MidOfficer]

@Tootall516 @CDNPolicyHawk Any kind of projectile is sensitive to wind, but broadly speaking the wind risk in live fire training on the prairies is that small fires are common + expected but the wind expands them very quickly, not that the wind would blow a projectile out of the safety trace.