Bridging a gap
by Richard Bray Tomorrow’s Canadian Army will get to the mission faster and safer, moving over a new generation of bridge and gap crossing equipment. At the Directorate of Land Requirements, Major François Langis has been working on the Bridge and Gap Crossing...
Stimulus policy
by Chris Thatcher Like the proverbial iceberg, most of what you see at the Directorate of Land Requirements (DLR) is happening below the surface. The periodic requests for information and letters of interest issued to the defence industry on its behalf by...
Culture of austerity: Maple Resolve challenges brigade by prioritizing resources
by Bill Williams Exercise Maple Resolve (Ex MR 19) continues to bat above its weight when preparing Canadian soldiers to deploy. Nearly a third of the more than 3,000 troops from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (1 CMBG) who took part in the annual event at...
Disaster relief: A model Op Lentus
by Allan Joyner When the LAVs of Duke’s Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment (1 RCR) squeezed up the congested roads in Constance Bay, Ont. on the morning of April 26, the spirits of the local volunteers who had spent days filling sandbags to protect...
Unmanned in demand
Unmanned aircraft have long been catnip for commanders on operations. The persistent feed of sensor data from ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance) platforms has been vital to the success of coalition missions globally. For over a...
The Job I Wanted
by Ken Pole When Lieutenant-General Wayne Eyre officially took command of the Canadian Army on Aug. 20 at a ceremony on Parliament Hill under a cloudless summer sky, he was taking over from Lieutenant-General Jean-Marc Lanthier, newly-promoted to Vice-Chief of...
