Save Our Army Regiments!

[Mike Timoshyk]

If there was a dictionary specially designed and maintained for our ever changing military jargon and one looked up Militia, ARAF or NRD it would direct you to the term "Force Generator".

I believe this is now the primary role of the Primary Reserve. It may be a new term but it is an old idea. Always the poor cousin, the PRes will be called upon to fill up the ranks of the Regular Force. This even more so considering the latest operational tempo of the last 12 or so years. One only needs to revue recent changes and "streamlining" to transfer from PRes to Reg Force to see the "writing on the wall". Look at the last few months for the Militia units...forced to reduce parading and eliminating so many class B posns.

Old prides die hard... I used to wear two cap badges...one inside my beret and one outside.

Mike in Windsor

[malcolm erik bogaert]

the Goverment here has stated there is no cash for Cadet Units or the University OTC always a good recruiter and my original point was....The Generals/Admirals/Air Marshal's at the top are penpushers not fighting men...they have all resigned in disgust..best regards malcolm

[maple_leaf_eh]

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.