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The first shoe (er, boot) to drop was announced a few days ago. The two service battalions in New Brunswick and Newfoundland have been merged. (I always wondered how functional the reserve battalions really were, when the regular force ones have been befuddled as far back as 1970.) The news release had all the right words that have been mentioned above.

There were grumbles about amalgamating the bilingual armoured unit in my hometown with the franco infantry unit. Some sharpie read that A and C Companies of a long gone predecessor 1940 mobilization regiment were rebadged to one corps while the B and D Companies became another corps. In true Canadian compromise fashion, the equivalent of US Civil War division of loyalties, one went overseas, landed on D-Day, produced many fine battlefield results and came home as heroes. The other .... did nothing even close. In fact, its battle honours are the same as the other regiment's without having left Canada. Compromise is a funny thing.