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Ex Military Officer, current Railroader. interested in Operational Planning, Strategy & Tactics, Economics and the Supply Chain.

Views are my own.

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@vrexec I find it's only in the finance/consulting industries where you see this. You never see anyone from Oil & Gas, Mining, Rail, etc doing this.

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@simonharley @0ct4v1 More like Dieppe, medieval edition!

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Funny, because I literally did exactly what you talked about. You do what you gotta do to earn a living for your family. Why even bring up the Harvard bit? It's irrelevant anyways.

I work with all sorts of different people in my current industry, from all walks of life. Nobody cares what you did previously or where you went to School, they care that you perform.

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I have a chum who was a CANSOF operator in Canada. We discussed this very thing. He was an Officer there and he was saying the exact same thing. Tough guy but doesn't look like your typical SOF guy now. He was very adamant that if he had to do selection now, he wouldn't pass half their testing regimens.

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As an aside, I could think of a number of "problems" in my current line of work that someone with a Tech background could tackle, and objectively make the World a better place. It would certainly be more impactful work than slaving away for a Company like Meta, which is the 21st century equivalent of a big tobacco company.

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@BeerfoxTheWise @schuttsm @NipseyHoussle Disagree. If you have education, there are opportunities to move in to Management, work on projects within these industries, etc. These industries are quite lucrative and they are always looking for bodies.

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Sell the house and move, stop overextending financially.

There are lots of opportunities in the back Country. I say that as someone who did the City life for a number of years, then relocated for work in my current industry to the backwaters. I'm not quite at $200k a year but am pretty close and when a mortgage is $150k vs $1million+, purchasing power is way higher.

Nobody said it was easy. People are surprised when they stop in for a visit though and see what we have and how well we live.

"You have how much land?!"... "this is your house!?"... "how much did you pay for it!?"... "Amazon delivers way out here?!"

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@DivebumChef @AndrewScheidl This is untrue. Standards are lower now than they were two decades ago. The CAF even did away with the aptitude test to increase intake numbers.

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@AmyJDR_awake @goodfoodgal Every military is exactly the same. Senior Officers receive medals, orders and titles to make themselves look more impressive to the general public. It's a status symbol, and for optics, nothing more.

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@jiggyatamos @RoddySputnik @RoyalEndeavour It's so common that it's the accepted way of doing business.

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@SGTWipper1Each I was an Army Officer for a decade, then switched to the Navy. I can't describe how awesome the ocean is. It's indescribable when you first feel the power of the ocean underneath your ship.

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Looks like the Police aren't trained in IARD (Immediate Action Rapid Deployment). In Canada, the standard response for this is for first responders to rapidly descend on an active incident and assault into the area in small, hastily assembled teams to confront the threat as quickly as possible.

Which is why almost every law-enforcement officer in Canada is issued a rifle/carbine along with their standard issue sidearm.

This wasn't always the case, but some hard lessons were learned here, which saw a change in tactics, particularly police who look after more rural areas.

Of course, we have far more gun crime than Australia, but their tactics look to be decades out of date.

I expect some very critical after action reports from this.

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The Combined Arms Rehearsal theater is dead.

If you’re still building one in 2025, you’re not training for LSCO—you’re planning your own funeral.

Picture it: 300 leaders in a hangar, 47 projectors, 12 hours of rock-drill perfection, brigade commander walking the miniature terrain like a god scripting every bound.
Meanwhile the enemy’s recon-strike complex just watched the whole thing from orbit: thermal bloom of the hangar, 300 cell phones pinging the same tower, every vehicle parked in neat rows outside for the satellite pass.

Day-1 of war: that rehearsal site is the first precision grid removed from the map.
Day-2: every CP you just rehearsed in place is gone.
Day-3: the brigade commander is either underground or dead, and nobody has comms because we never trained without them.

GWOT taught us that perfect synchronization wins.
LSCO teaches us that perfect synchronization is a targeting signature.

Your 96-hour Exchecl and sync mat -perfect scheme dies in the first 30 minutes when:
- Every emitter is a beacon
- Every static node is a target
- Every rehearsal of record becomes the enemy’s pre-planned fire plan

Mission Command isn’t a nice-to-have.
It is the only thing that survives when the sky is full of drones and the brigade commander’s voice is a memory.

Yet we still measure readiness by how pretty the rehearsal looks, not by how violently a company can attack when higher is burning and the net is black.

Stop building theaters.
Start building leaders who can fight with a map, a compass, and two sentences of intent.

Because in LSCO the rehearsal isn’t in a hangar.
It’s the enemy dropping 40 loitering munitions on the exact grid you spent three days perfecting.

Perfection is the enemy of survival.
Control is the fast lane to the grave.

Kill the GWOT rehearsal culture or it kills you.

#RehearsalTheaterIsCoffinNail #LSCO #MissionCommandOrExtinction #CPTargetingEndsControl

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@esquiregee @Martyupnorth_2 Yes, and they literally print money. I work in the industry and it's extremely lucrative. I know guys with a grade 10 education and a Locomotive Engineer certification who are multi-millionaires from their career on the railroad.

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This isn’t a well-reasoned take and I say that as someone who is normally in agreement with much of what you say. We have our own Military history, that isn't necessarily in step with American Military history. We have also had our own Military campaigns that didn't involve the United States.

It's true that Canada did not actively participate in the Vietnam War. Why is an interesting question but I believe much of it has to do with some fairly serious domestic issues that were going on at the time within Canada. Google the "October Crisis" if you want a primer. There was a period during that time frame when we were under martial law.

Needless to say, decisions to stay out of certain conflicts seem very wise in hindsight re: Vietnam, 2003 Invasion of Iraq, etc.

I am in agreement though that the Canadian Armed Forces is in dire need of a shakeup and our foreign policy and current direction stinks.

The North American continent has a mountain of unrealized potential and USMCA has the potential to be the most powerful political and economic force on the planet but we need alignment.

I don't think anyone is trending in the right direction though. I say that as someone who has family ties on both sides of the border.

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Sorry but disagree completely. Not everyone is a teacher or banker btw. I left the CAF and became a professional railroader, I manage a territory the size of France and deal with $$$ millions of dollars of equipment and goods every single day.

There is a golden fountain of untapped potential in the private sector the CAF could tap in to. The Reserve Force is not structured to harness that talent though.

I am still in the Supp Res but have zero interest in going back to the Forces. Doesn't pay enough, they have zero respect for the Reserve Force and it would be a waste of my precious time.

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@Hades51155014 @SRobot26845 @SandyofCthulhu NA freight railroads are superior to anything that exists in Europe when it comes to moving freight by rail. European freight trains are capped in terms of length/tonnage. Our freight trains generally are 4 to 5 times the size of those that haul freight in Europe.

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We have way more trackage in NA than Europe does. The maps as presented are completely inaccurate. The difference is our railroads primarily transport freight whereas in Europe, they transport people.

Our railroads as commercial enterprises are also wildly more successful than any European venture.