Some thoughts....
* I hope this doesn't kill 2nd Tanks budget. A little birdy told me that they have jack squat for funding this year.
* The exercise itself is impressive but the assembly of ships is too. This has got to be one of the biggest fleet exercises since the end of the Cold War.
* Still waiting to see the Royal Marines make an appearance. I know they have an exercise going on near Norway right now but I really hoped to see a company show up (if I'm wrong let me know).
*Also, I'm trying to find out the numbers of Canadian troops assigned to this exercise. The list of nations participating is for all to see...the number of troops (even our Marines) is alot harder to come by.
* Where is the Army in all this? We're talking about sea base and this is suppose to be a joint force thing. I'd like to see more than a few helos flying out to ships. It shouldn't have been hard to get a Stryker Brigade to self deploy to the coast for a force on force opportunity.
* I hope this doesn't kill 2nd Tanks budget. A little birdy told me that they have jack squat for funding this year.
* The exercise itself is impressive but the assembly of ships is too. This has got to be one of the biggest fleet exercises since the end of the Cold War.
* Still waiting to see the Royal Marines make an appearance. I know they have an exercise going on near Norway right now but I really hoped to see a company show up (if I'm wrong let me know).
*Also, I'm trying to find out the numbers of Canadian troops assigned to this exercise. The list of nations participating is for all to see...the number of troops (even our Marines) is alot harder to come by.
* Where is the Army in all this? We're talking about sea base and this is suppose to be a joint force thing. I'd like to see more than a few helos flying out to ships. It shouldn't have been hard to get a Stryker Brigade to self deploy to the coast for a force on force opportunity.
From what I understand, bold alligator isn't taking away from unit budgets, it was funded by the mef. 2nd tanks will be in 29 as a battalion in the summer doing a pretty Awsome exercise ( something tiger can't remember) getting back to their tanker roots
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