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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Canada currently has 1450 soldiers deployed or meant to be deployed by 2017.
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Well, to be honest, the majority of those are staff positions in various HQs. OP IMPACT, for example, has a small number of operational troops in Iraq. The rest of the mission is scattered from Jordan to Lebanon to Kuwait working in joint HQs. Also, they aren't all Army and they aren't all Reg Force. The Canadian Armed Forces is very adept at building up HQs in order to employ as many Majors and Colonels as possible.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
That's equivalent to a brigade group. to put that in perspective Canada has I believe 4 active duty divisions in the army, Each of them basically made up of 3 to 4 combat brigades, when they're at full strength, which is doubtful.
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Canada really only has 1 division (1 Cdn Div HQ) in Kingston. This is the deployable HQ, but it doesn't have any brigades as subordinates.
The other four divisions are in name only because it looks good on paper, but they aren't constructed as proper divisions and are not "active". That is, they aren't deployable and aren't capable of independent operations. Three Divisions (2, 3, and 4) have
one mechanized brigade group each. The other brigades in each division are not mechanized and are Primary Reserve. None of the Reserve brigades are deployable/operational; they are administrative. The Reserve soldiers from these brigades will augment the Regular Force in the Mechanized Brigades as required.
5 Division in Atlantic Canada has two Reserve Brigades. That's it.