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Why is this a surprise? I was in the Military (Air Force) for 35 years and during that time we hovered around 60K (regular force) members. We had several force reduction programs to get the numbers down during my tenure. The Military was never a priority for either Liberal or Conservative governments. As for the reserves, they are quite often regular force members (in the Airforce anyway) or members that have quit for personal reasons but still want to be active. Anyway, we are where we are because we chose to be there.

If you are unable to work alongside women without abusing them, you are the problem.

I think what we "need"...is the ability to use and protect the northern passage.

You forget Space Force, American Reserves, Army and Air Force National Guard, Coast Guard. The Air Force reserve has more members than all of the CAF. The US Army reserve has nearly 4 times the number of CAF total members. National Guard has over 400K members. Point is, comparing is fruitless.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/biden-ex-chief-of-staff-admits-us-prices-too-high-experts-break-down-struggling-most Biden’s ex-chief of staff admits US prices are too high: Experts break down who’s ‘struggling’ most Two market and economic experts are siding with recent commentary from a former White House chief of staff that inflationary pressures are becoming too much for Americans to bear. "Another group that's really been hurting under this administration is what has typically been a core Democratic constituency, which is young people, but they, of course, are the ones that have a disproportionate portion of their income go to things like food and energy," former assistant Treasury secretary for economic policy Michael Faulkender said on "The Evening Edit" Thursday. "They're the ones that are really struggling to buy houses and buy cars due to the high interest rate environment that we're seeing under this administration," he added. In a surprise turn on his former boss, Biden’s ex-chief of staff Ron Klain told MSNBC host Chris Hayes Wednesday that inflation has become too high and American families are getting hit hardest. A really funny black comic said the only reason blacks still support Biden is because thanks to him, THE FIRST PERSON EVER TO SMOKE CRACK IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS WHITE.

1. There have always been a multitude of reasons why Ukraine cannot "win" this war with Russia. This one is over. Russia will dictate any "agreements" with regards to a peace settlement. That's just the way it is. 2. Israel missed their opportunity to elliveate their Gaza problem decisively. This will likely end with the Gazans crossing into Egypt in a giant refugee camp. 3. Iran and Israel need to stand down. The USA needs to stay out of any squabbles between them. Same goes for Russia and China. The stakes are way too high. We all know Israel's "glass parkinglot" policy. If the 2 fools want to waste themselves...let 'em do it alone. 4. Brandon's only chance for victory is now that either Trump is put in jail convicted of...something, or the Democrats cheat. The longer this goes, the more RFK takes Democrat votes. Hell the more Brandon talks, the more Democrats lose votes. His latest scheme...more collage debt buying...is only going to p1ss off a majority of Americans. 5. Pixie-Dust is history. The next PM of Canada will be Pierre Polievre. The Gas tax will be axed and hopefully the fossil fuel industries will be unchained. And that's the way it is, this 13th day of April, 2024.

Written by one of those guys telling women their place.

They are books by a bunch guys telling women their place. Nothing at all unusual or special about that.

I was paying attention. All you do is quote gospels. Name one woman who had anything to do with writing any of them.

If only simply insisting on things you make up actually made them true, you wouldn't be here all day every day raging at everyone, with nothing and nobody in your life besides. 🥴

So your objections are religious, nothing to do with ability. Not surprised.

Lol...oh the desperation of you Libbies. True to form, they'll drag Trump's ass into court in an attempt to effect the election...and true to form this BS will only strengthen him. Brandon is unelectable. That leaves Kennedy or Trump.

Hilarious. The Libbies are losing young voters, Blacks, Hispanics, women, men, and themselves. Their panic is fun to watch.

What century do you live in? Women have demanded equality for the past 50 and more years and in many areas, if not most, they have it. Women also have a choice, just like men do. If they choose not to crawl around in the mud, hide in the bushes or behind trees to kill someone as being in the army may happen. They will not choose that, as obviously many men have not as well. There have always been women in the military, in the occupations they choose. I have worked with many women in the aviation occupations, with great success. There are many women in the navy as well. The issue of today is that young folks do not want to work hard. That can be seen in many civilian occupations too. The trades are hurting badly as well. The trades are desperate for people. No one wants to be outside in hot summers or cold winters, let alone in the field while in the Army. This has nothing to do with men being attracted to women, this has everything to do with the actual jobs. And to make it a "liberals and leftist" issue is almost the stupidest thing you have ever posted.

Things which happened in many places after the first, second world wars. The British were the so-called authority after WW1 having eliminated the former power structure in middle east, Caliphate. Almost every country in the world was similarly affected, but since that time have reconciled with the changes. Not so in the middle east. Why, you may ask? Because says I, they are pawn pieces on a chess board game played by the Great Powers. GB, France, USA, Russia. All want and NEED instability to be maintained. It's possible Russia has been meddling, as they are the faction who would support a new war breaking out now, one that will involve US interests. The shit is chess, not checkers.

You owe everything you have to those "fools". Learn some respect, you'd be dead or conquered without these brave patriots who want to serve and protect their country. Looks like there's not very many of them anymore, no thanks to people like you.

I'm not saying it's without any merit. To stick with the subject matter at hand, if you were curious as to when Darwin wrote the evolution of species, definitely check out Wikipedia. But as it's not peer-reviewed (in fact can be edited by layman) it lacks the rigour of the source material so can't be considered a reliable resource for understanding the mechanisms required for the diversity of life on the planet.

They likely do in some form that's legal. Cocaine hydrochloride comes to mind.

Oh good. The Banana Republic is alive and well. I was worried there for a moment.

Yes the thousands of feet of audio and video tape were all in our heads. Capt. Obvious is gaslighting again.

I should stop? I don't need a half dozen paragraphs or more to demonstrate your fragility and lack of intelligence. All I have to do is type something like this, and you're predictably triggered into a spastic multi-paragraph rant where you prove it for me. 👌

No , we defeated no one. The west out spent the warsaw pact, Russia decided to pull back and broke up the warsaw pact...if we had defeated them there would have been a surrender with conditions and stuff.... russia just packed up it's toys and went home, thats all that happened...Today they took their toys out for a drive into ukraine, and decided to stay a while....

#truth

You must only be lookingat those NIHO ads meant to sucker Germans out of their money. There's nothing but available land up country. Neither the govt or the King is preventing you from buying some.

women are best suited to a service support role to subject women to close combat at bayonet range is uncivilized

Correct. They are gene therapy injections. But no one would have taken an experimental gene therapy injection, so they called them "vaccines". And genetic therapy injections are subject to different regulations and trials than regular vaccines, so by calling them "vaccines", they didn't have to adhere to regulations for genetic therapy injections.

You mean the woke have realized they can't stop it. And where was this deep concern when the activists were calling anyone who dared suggest parents have rights every name in the book including transphobes and religious freaks etc etc. They are monsters mike, they put their own ideology ahead of the children's actual welfare. And you're a part of that click. And yes - it is helpful to call out people for being monsters when they're monsters. Would you prefer i called them Chuds, you hypocrite?

Obviously ^this guy is struggling because he FAILED to pay attention in HS, since he can't even identify Ukraine on a map. Let alone understand how expensive it will be for US if Ukraine LOSES the war PUTIN STARTED. He probably doesn't even know anything about what happened. Nor does he understand that the vast majority of that $60B is being spent to employ US citizens to build the arms that Ukraine NEEDS.

I saw that video already and everybody there wanted to talk to Obamarama, and not Joe(the bimbo)Bidumb. Bidumb always looks so dumb wherever he goes. Bidumb was funny to watch just standing there looking for someone to talk too. What a bloody loser. I have to believe that Bidumb has to be on some kind of drug. Even the camel ignored Bidumb. The only one looking like a bumbling and loss bimbo these days is Bidumb. Trump is cool, man. Go, Trump, go. 😇

When it comes down to it though, the number of infantrymen would be way less than 28,000. That number includes a lot of support trades as well - cooks, logistic types, mechanics, etc. Even if we had unlimited troop carriers at our disposal, we probably have far less than 20,000 actual soldiers to drop off on a beach somewhere. I don't even want to guess.

Once gain, give your head a shake. Why have a nuclear sub that can stay underwater for weeks and only have pea shooters onboard? Canada is a non nuclear country and will never have ballistic missiles. Stay with your 200 year old British army tributes because you clearly are way behind LOL

Oh look - the leftie wants to complain about he format instead of the issues. Quelle suprise. Really. And which liberal specifically have i stopped from speaking their mind, Mike? Who was that specifically? Do you mean i call out liberals like yourself when you lie? Sounds like that's what you mean, And once again - can't address the points, you have to try to change the channel. Speaking of cowardly - Noting you can't even muster the balls to speak to me directly but have to try to speak to me indirectly.

The military has a serious recruitment problem. I wonder why? https://obbc.ca/menstrual-products-now-in-mens-washrooms-at-canadian-military-bases-soon-at-all-federally-regulated-workplaces/

You mean like all the Scandinavian countries, Finland and Switzerland? Good old Canadian sense of entitlement. We have a right to be defended. By someone else

Misleading title. With Navy, Air Force -our military has about 50,000. By comparison, the US with 10x our population has about 1.4 million active military. IOW, the US has about 3x our numbers. I favour our way of doing things. ===== In Canada and the US, soldiers now choose to join. (In Canada, we have always had a voluntary military. Since Nixon, the US has not had conscription.) IMHO, when a State resorts to military conscription, its leaders are imposing a tax - a weird tax.

Not only to Europe, but across DND and MDND, people have been stepping up and telling anyone that will listen, that we are in need of deep investment...Everyone already knows most of the globe has noticed our lack of participation, and have said politely hey your a loser time to step up...We are losing capability's along with the expertise in using them every year, once they are gone we will have to pay other nations to teach us the basics on all of these lost capabilities... Lets not forget there is 1/2 a dozen or so european countries that have stepped up to a war footing, are desperately thinking conscription,and boosting their defense budgets into the 3 percent range...We are one of the few that seems to be still riding the wave to the beach....as history has shown, we have always cashed in the peace bonds hard, and paid a price when crises happens in lives...history repeats itself over and over here in canada.

Boots on the ground are but one part of the total commitment we made, Canada scrambled to get ships to assist with convoy duty, during this struggle good men paid for the life's for sub par equipment....and the airforce, they had weeks of training and then shipped over to bomb germany during the night...during their time in the air they learned what it took to survive or were scraped out of the hull in buckets ...So young Canadians were paying the price from day one...and lets not forget that small Dieppe raid for the army, which seen a sizable chunk of the army gone in a blink of an eye... One just has to look at the all 3 elements before each of the great wars...there was not enough full time soldiers to train the amount we needed, not that it matter as the equipment they had at the time was relics...and with everyone around the globe looking for the same equipment, we got what we got... Ross rifle, and the rest of the junk we ended up buying...cost lifes, which is my point... The next conflict will be come as you are, it takes months to build main battle tanks, and aircraft, and years to build ships...so we won't have the time to get ready or build new...we will fight in what we have and what little we can build before the main fight...we'll run out of ammo in a week.....and when your your looking at just 40 main battle tanks, because the rest are training tanks, LAV 6 and now rebuilt M113...in a world were new IFV will tear us a new one before we get past the embarkation line...good Canadians will die, while the rest of Canadians will shrug their shoulders and say nothing....good thing it its not me...

You wait until after you get the disease and then inject yourself with bleach. As if that press conference wasn't the most embarrassing act a sitting President has ever done. As if being a whole 4 years older is more repugnant than being a rapist. And a fraud. And a compulsive liar. And a contempt of law and justice. And referring to groups as vermin, etc.

In order to defend this country, we need a viable military. That requires conscription and an annual trillion dollar budget. Try selling that to Canadian voters / taxpayers.

With all that said, wars usually involve foolish young men, between the ages of 17 and 21. Who is in Gaza now? In Donetsk?

One reason few want to join the Canadian Forces is because of their DEI and LGBTQ policies. Mixing women with men in the CAF was a mistake. Men and women should be in separate branches of the armed forces. I think that is the way it was in WW2. It is unnatural to mix men and women together and not expect sexual abuse and other problems.

In the conflict between Israel, the United States, and the Palestinians, Iran, the good ones are the Palestinians and the Iranians. Israel's provocative acts against Iran is a plot by Israel to make Iran go to war and the United States to go after them, and while the focus is on the war, they will be able to kill all Palestinians.

none the less, every infantryman must be required to ultimately close to bayonet range in extremis to include fixed bayonet fighting unfixed bayonet fighting and unarmed combat that is the standard Ducimus

HM Royal Canadian Infantry Corps is charged with executing the full spectrum of close combat tasks up to and including killing the enemy soldier with your bare hands as necessary never pass a fault

anyone could meet the elite standard of HM Royal Canadian Infantry Corps ? with respect, MWO, I must disagree at the RCR Battleschool, many fell to the side of the road and failed to meet the standard only those who refused to quit, whom put one foot in front of the other, for the brothers to the left & right of them, come what may; met the standard training ground of the warriors, at Camp Petawawa, Renfrew Garrison, Ontario Airborne