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Asked by a reporter if DND doesn't know what ammunition it has or needs, Auditor General Karen Hogan: "they have lots of weaknesses in how they manage inventory, absolutely, so that's probably an example of me using good auditor general language."
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Generals? What Generals?
The bar for becoming a general officer is in the fucking basement. You can see a trend in my posts as of late. I've gone full bluntness on this topic since nothing else seems to work.
We spent twenty years losing wars while rewarding the people who learned how to survive the system that was losing them. Strategic failure became “complexity.” No victory became “persistent engagement.” Nobody got fired, everyone got another star, and the bureaucracy learned the oldest trick in Washington: rename failure until it sounds like expertise.
Then came the cultural surrender.
The same generals who couldn't produce victory abroad stood almost mute while the formation was carved up at home by race, sex, identity, extremism stand downs, demographic targets, and an expanding DEI bureaucracy. They watched warfighting institutions absorb the language and priorities of academia and HR, then called the corrosion “leadership.”
That's the stunning indictment nobody wants to touch: a general is supposed to protect the formation from threats outside it and rot inside it. Too many did neither.
We promoted custodians of decline and called them strategic leaders. I'm sick and tired of having to pretend the system isn't absolutely cracked in half by people who serve themselves over the nation.
No more.
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Lack of political will and leadership from the Liberal government has left the Canadian Armed Forces with significant gaps in their ammunition stockpiles, according to a new Auditor General report.
Read our statement and watch our reaction here: youtube.com/watch?v=xgw40Sqx…
"In order to fix the military, it must be radically transformed at the top. Not with civilians, with uniformed members. All it takes is one senior general infected with radical candor to force the rest of the uniforms in his image." CAF--ONE senior command officer like this?
It isn't hard to see why the culture of truth telling eroded in the military.
The first time an officer doesn't turn the box on a slide green is when the transformation starts. Maybe he turned it amber, or god forbid... red.
That's when he got yelled at. "How come your unit isn't green but everyone else is? What's wrong with you? Why are you worse than these other commanders?"
Nobody likes to get yelled at. And most young officers don't want to rock the boat and hurt their career chances, so they play the game. The unit may not really be green, but by god, they are now on the slide.
The commander is now happy in the lie. And the subordinates are happy too. But now, since the first lie has been told, now it's a competition over who can tell the BEST lie.
This is where the officer transitions into a human LinkedIn post. Adding flowery language to terrible reports to make everything sound amazing.
Fast forward even further, and now you're a General. You've learned nothing but how to be a professional at perpetuating this folly. But the entire scheme is built on one load bearing attribute: hope.
Hope that the units they are reporting on won't get tested. Hope that America is strong enough to deter any would-be adversaries. And hope that even if our units are bad, that the enemy's are worse.
Hope has worked out from time to time. Unless you're a poor soul standing at Abbey Gate on 26 August 2021. Then hope straight up failed.
What you're seeing in the military is just a microcosm of the nation at large though. Maybe even western civilization itself. Look at who the majority of people love. The leader who can deliver bad news in the best way. The one who can twist the truth to make a horrible thing feel not so bad.
Conversely, look at how society responds to the blunt truth teller. They just want him to stop talking. Because living in a lie is more comfortable than facing the truth. It always is.
In order to fix the military, it must be radically transformed at the top. Not with civilians, with uniformed members. All it takes is one senior general infected with radical candor to force the rest of the uniforms in his image. Like a George Marshall.
But George Marshall would never ascend the military hierarchy in 2026. He didn't have the right "credentials". And therein lies the main issue.
You can skip a SECWAR from O4 to the top in a suit. But you can't take an O7 and turn him into an O10 like Marshall.
If we want radical candor back in uniform, the only thing left is to do something radical to achieve it.
This statement applies to the CAF--telling the truth is not a feature of the officer corp. Ask them to appear at a deposition and see the spinning wheels to escape being under oath.
You don’t understand. You think you do, but you don’t.
A great majority of U.S. Army officers are incapable of telling the truth. It is a feature of the system, not a bug.
The higher up they get, the more lies they’ve been willing to tell. Not all, but most.
This has not always been the way of things. This is the GWOT way of things.
If you attempt to speak the truth in a system built on lies, you get attacked like an immune system strikes a virus.
This isn’t me trying to take cheap shots at them. I’ve tried for years to spell this out in elevated prose where applicable.
I can’t best around the bush anymore. Any institution that attacks the truth no longer serves the greater good. It’s merely serving itself.
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🚨 BREAKING (unconfirmed): NASA satellites detected a fire in the CFB Gagetown training area in New Brunswick this afternoon. That’s 35 detections across 5 satellite passes, 1:22–3:41 p.m. ADT. Cause and status are unconfirmed. We’ve asked DND. #CFBGagetown #NewBrunswick 🧵
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yoooo Government of Canada 👋
primerogueinc.com/blog/gover…
your networks opened 35 pages of our site in 3 days. staff page twice. contact page once. the shop three times.
nobody bought a mug - we don't sell them - ok.
we’re just trying to report the news on that thing at #CFBWainwright🧵
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🪖 Pte. Liam Ramage, 27, is fighting for his life after the CFB Wainwright fire.
Third and fourth degree burns over 40% of his body, face, head, neck, hands, arms, legs. He can’t see. Barely move or speak. Months of surgeries and skin grafts ahead.
Four brothers killed. Dozens more critically burned. He still tried to help others.
Blood donors saved him. 🩸 Canadians: donate blood, support his recovery, demand the very best for our troops.
They signed the blank cheque. We owe them more. 🇨🇦
#CAF #Wainwright #SupportOurTroops
Family of soldier badly burned at CFB Wainwright speaks about his injuries globalnews.ca/news/12124995/…
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Bill C-223 is being sold as legislation that will save children’s lives. But the witnesses I questioned raised serious concerns that it could actually cause more harm.
Protecting children from abuse must include protecting them from parental alienation. We cannot ignore one form of harm while trying to prevent another.
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Our thoughts remain with everyone impacted by the tragic incident at CFB Wainwright... 💔
In the hours that followed, healthcare teams at Wainwright Health Centre came together in an extraordinary response.
At the Wainwright Health Centre, 137 hospital staff were on site that night, compared with fewer than 20 on a typical Saturday night 🤯
Physicians and staff from outside the community joined local teams to care for 39 emergency patients.
The teams worked to assess and stabilize patients before they were transferred to hospitals in Edmonton and Calgary for more specialized care.
“We’re proud of everyone,” says site manager Shawn Virtue.
“Not just for what they accomplished (last) weekend.
This is always an incredible group of people.”
On Thursday, Canadian Armed Forces leadership visited Wainwright Health Centre to personally thank the healthcare teams.
Among those recognized was administrative assistant Gayle Goebel, pictured receiving a handshake of thanks from a member of the Canadian Armed Forces.
Physicians and staff were presented with special recognition coins, while the hospital received a plaque bearing a simple message of gratitude:
“With heartfelt appreciation for your tireless care and compassion, thank you.” ❤️
@STARSambulance – at Wainwright, Alberta
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🚨New Hamburg, Ontario: Legion Branch 532 veteran banners vandalized with black spray paint.
One is for Pte. Tyler W. Todd, killed by an IED in Afghanistan in 2010 with the PPCLI.
These banners honour our fallen. This is pure disrespect.
#cdnpoli #CAF #LestWeForget 🇨🇦
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WOUNDED WAINWRIGHT SOLDIERS FACE MONTHS, EVEN YEARS OF RECOVERY! 🚨
The soldiers severely burned in the devastating fire at CFB Wainwright are facing a long and difficult road to recovery, doctors say.
The Oct. 17 training-ground fire killed four Canadian Armed Forces members and injured dozens more.
Of the 39 service members initially taken to hospitals across Alberta, many suffered serious burns, with some remaining in critical condition.
Burn specialists warn that severe burn injuries can require months of hospitalization, multiple surgeries, skin grafts and extensive rehabilitation.
Patients also face serious risks including infection, respiratory complications and organ problems.
Doctors say the challenge extends far beyond the initial emergency treatment.
Even after leaving the hospital, severely burned patients may need years of medical care, physical therapy and support as they adjust to life after their injuries.
“This is a really prolonged incident and will require significant resources for months to years to come,” said burn disaster preparedness expert, Danielle Fuchko.
Burn specialists from other provinces have also offered support as Alberta's health-care system continues caring for the wounded.
Our thoughts are with the injured soldiers, their families and everyone affected by this tragedy ❤️😢
@CNN – at Wainwright, Alberta
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There was once a shepherd who found a wolf caught in a snare at the edge of his pasture.
The wolf begged to be freed.
“I was hungry,” it said. “That is all. Spare me, and I will remember your mercy!”
The shepherd cut the rope.
The next night, three lambs were gone.
Again the shepherd found the wolf. Again it pleaded. Again the shepherd convinced himself that mercy was proof of his goodness.
By winter, half the flock was dead.
An old farmer finally asked him, “Why do you keep freeing it?”
The shepherd answered, “Because I refuse to become cruel.”
The farmer looked at the empty field and said, “Then understand what you have done. You were not merciful to the wolf. You were cruel to everything that trusted you to keep them safe.”
That’s the lesson.
Mercy without judgment isn’t virtue. When someone openly intends to destroy what has been entrusted to you, endless forgiveness doesn’t make you righteous. It makes everyone behind you pay for your vanity.
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A good read for those involved and the families in this tragic #Wainwright fire event.
“Whether appropriate firefighting resources and emergency response capabilities were available.”
To highlight this point, this include stretchers onsite, communications internal, and external in the emergency 🚨 vehicle, currency of their medical training, medic and assigned first aiders and physically fit.
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Even if policies prescribe differential treatment b/w Reg F & Res F mbrs, inequity isn't immune from grievance. Policy application itself can constitute a grievable decision/act/omission. A policy doesn't have to be deliberately discriminatory for consequences to be challenged.
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Comprehensive.
I would recommend adding what I learned in my safety training; often the DND 663 is forgotten.
Then again, the role of a unit/general safety officer is not something the Army seem familiar with.
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My latest article....Auditor General to report on state of Canadian military's ammo
ottawacitizen.com/public-ser… via @ottawacitizen
