by Editor | May 13, 2020 | Army Reserves, News, Training System, Uncategorized
by Allan Joyner The images are indelible and, in some ways, misleading. Nightly news footage of troops filling sandbags and armoured vehicles wading flooded city streets are well known across Canada. The reality is that smaller communities, and more...
by Editor | Feb 17, 2020 | Army Reserves, News, Training System
by Ian Coutts “It may seem like a lot of work.” Lieutenant-Colonel Eric Groulx is referring to the work that led up to the chaos surrounding him. Dozens of junior officers intently tap away at computer terminals or confer with more senior officers. Paper...
by Editor | Dec 18, 2019 | Exercises, News, Training System
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...
by Editor | Sep 5, 2019 | Combat Capability, News, Training System
by Chris Thatcher It is arguably one of the more difficult exercises in the career of a major or seasoned captain – Exercise Common Ground. For an intense 24-hour period, young leaders are thrust into command of a combined arms team for the first time in a...
by Editor | Aug 14, 2019 | News, Training System
Canadian soldiers have faced many accusations in Latvia and Ukraine, including polluting the Adazi training area (social media photos of littered garbage were actually from the countryside), raising the cost of housing in downtown Riga by renting all available...
by Editor | Jul 22, 2019 | News, Training System
by Ian Coutts “We’re up in the air and we’re flyin’ around.” Forty attentive faces focus on Sergeant Brandon James. “Get ready, stand up…” As one, the soldiers rise from the benches, and pointing one hand stiffly, almost theatrically, off to their side and then...
