Maybe, but I still look at the French Foreign Legion as a completely separate entity or branch within the french Armed Forces. Think of the US Marines being open to foreign recruitment.
When I talked about the background check, I want to clarify. It would be fairly straight forward to do a Commonwealth background check. But when you open it up to every nation, I can see where there would be difficulties in terms of doing checks and the recruiting process.
With the French Foreign Legion, if your willing to pay for your travel and show up at a FFL recruiting station they will do a cursory background check on you and then basically sign you. I don't know if that's quite the extreme direction that we'd want to go.
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The reality is it's a voluntary military and women and minorities can apply for all trades. And they do. Still...
If you want to achieve these quotas, you will have to implement compulsory service or expedite the release of serving white males. But you can't have compulsory service for some but not others for obvious reasons.
I think it is quite apparent who they are targeting.
But the truth of the matter is, the monster problem is the retention of all, including women and minorities. This is the real issue and one the highers up do not seem to want to address. For whatever reason, they feel it is preferable to recruit new people than to retain experienced personnel. You can have an entire discussion on why people leave the military. There are as many reasons as there are people leaving.
All that to say that it isn't as easy to just state we will have 25% women or XX% visible minorities and it will happen.
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The plane also has spotty communications technology – no television, limited and spotty Wi-Fi, and only one phone. In comparison, the United States’ Air Force One has a miniature Oval Office, a situation room, excellent Internet access and live TV. The U.S. has already contracted Boeing to replace Air Force One, at a cost of US$3.9 billion for two new 747s.
The plane’s relatively outdated features weren’t lost on Trudeau when he toured Ronald Reagan’s 1980s-era U.S. presidential plane, which sits in a museum, according to a source.
Trudeau noted that Reagan had better communications capabilities then than than he does no
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n 2011, it took former prime minister Stephen Harper 30 hours to get to Australia to deliver a crucial speech because the plane required multiple refuelling stops.
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I would expect that we're going to hear about mission creep where Canadian's are transporting "Anti-Terrorist" troops and doing supression missions or anti sniper missions for ground troops.
I have very little faith in our DM, I think that Vance is a big step back from other COS. I also think that we're doing this mission for the wrong reason, its going to make no difference whatsoever and we're going to be seeing rides along the Highway of Heroes at some point.
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Defence industry representatives were briefed in April by Royal Canadian Air Force officers that the tactical control radars, or TCRs, are is a state of disrepair but there is no government approval yet to replace the equipment purchased in 1991. “The new roles and tasks assigned to the radars have resulted in considerable deployment and usage increases, and have caused the TCRs to enter into a never-ending deterioration cycle,” the officials were told, according to the documents.
The radars were supposed to be replaced years ago but the purchase of new equipment, announced with great fanfare by the previous Conservative government, was a dud.
Thales Canada, a subsidiary of the French defence giant, was awarded a contract in 2011 and was supposed to deliver the radars two years later. At the time of the original contract announcement, Thales noted that its award was building on its “40-year track record of providing world-class sensor systems to the Canadian Forces.”
Also the cost of the Australian cast off rusty F-18's is still not known.
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Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough said last week at the CANSEC military equipment trade show in Ottawa that she expects the first two used Australian F-18s to be delivered in 2019. But Qualtrough said she still doesn’t have a final cost for taxpayers for the 18 used aircraft, spares, weapons and other related equipment. The Liberal government has set aside up to $500 million for the purchase.
Qualtrough said negotiations are ongoing.
Pat Finn, the Department of National Defence’s assistant deputy minister of materiel, recently said he expects a deal by the end of the year with deliveries of the Australian planes to begin next summer. The Liberal government originally planned for the arrival of the first used aircraft in January 2019.
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Trump has sent a sharply edged letter to Canada, Germany, Belgium, the UK and Norway to start living up to your NATO obligations in spending or the American's will shift their military deployments in Europe
We're beyond that point anyways. Even if we bumped up the Forces spending to the 2%, it would make little difference, we're far down the road to rust out and a ability to show basic capabilities that we'd need a major restructuring and re-investment.
And like I said, its not just the Liberal's its the Conservatives. I had hope when Harper came in and started spending on heavy lift capabilities, kit and vehicles. but Canada is completely hapless when it comes to the concept of national defense.
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Follow up on the Canada/Saudi Arabia Armored vehicle deal as arms control and human rights groups call for an inquiry as the vehicles were used against civillians
When the retired military police sergeant returned to Base Gagetown in New Brunswick last week, he brought with him the memory and the burden of friends lost to the ravages of time and cancer...........
....White claims that, in the late spring of 1985, he escorted a flatbed truck loaded with chemical barrels to a point near the base's tank training range, where they were buried in a large hole near an area known as the Shirley Road dump.
It happened before sunrise and White said he'd always found it suspicious. He kept silent, however, until he lost three friends — all former Gagetown soldiers — to cancer.
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Canada's defense spending since 1990, the last time we spent 2% of GDP on defense.
Brutal, Hate to be that guy but I wonder how much have we spent on illegal immigrants walking across or border as opposed to defending our border and funding our armed forces.