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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
He doesn't set the training calendar (at least I hope not), this is on Command for ####ing the dog.
That is a tonne of quality training that could have gone on, the more you sweat in training the less you bleed in combat.
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I would agree with you, however it just seems to be that this more then any other government has a Minister of Defense setting the pace and the priorities of the Chief of Defense Staff right to the fine minute details. So in this case, training and equipment procurement and how this military is supposed to fight and respond has been set aside in favor of reforming the military justice system and how it deals with gender and sexual harassment.
These are laudable things to work on, and I respect them for doing it, but they've to an extent lost a large part of the mission here.
I also believe that the combination of Jonathan Vance and our current Minister is a poor combination because both of them have the same weaknesses.
I tend to believe that the Minister really needs a strong minded CDS but we haven't had those since Natynczyk and Hillier, I also find it funny that we haven't had a CDS from Maritime Command since the late 90's.