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Originally Posted by worth
I'm interested to know how we can support a NATO deployment to Eastern Europe and a UN deployment to Africa at the same time.
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You can't, remember at the end of Afghanistan the Forces was suffering from major deployment fatique.
the LAV's and other equipment used was either completely worn out or in serious need of an upgrade.
We had personal fatique because of the number of troops that rotated through the battlegroup.
On the plus side, the troops that we did use were battle hardened and experienced and Canada did what they could to get those people into training rotations to pass on what they know.
On the negative side we probable lost a lot of experienced troops who came home and left the military.
The nice part of using the F-18's in the mid east is that it allowed us to continue to rest and refurbish.
Now we're majorly committed to the Nato deployment in Latvia with 450 troops, that might not sound like much, but on any long term deployment with a military as small as Canada's its actually a lot. On top of that we still have troops deployed in "training" roles in the middle east as as well with operation impact which I believe is nearly 800 troops plus 2 patrol and refueling craft.
I think we also have 200 troops as part of UNIFER in the Ukraine as well.
IF we do deploy to Africa, its going to be a complex mission, we're going to need probably significant troop numbers, and its going to stretch our logistics and air lift to the limit.