pyeknu.bsky.social
Former Canadian Forces administration clerk, English as a foreign language teacher, and telecommunications customer service agent, now semi-retired on disability.
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It's an interesting exercise IMHO. See here:
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/8...
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Beautiful portrait!
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The idiot Zionists want Palestinians wiped off the map.
Shades of the HOLOCAUST...!
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to Gatineau city itself on the Québec side. The chart here has Ontario-based units and sub-units shown in English and Québec-based units shown in French.
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/1...
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Feh! Wouldn't surprise me that someone in the Qatari government affiliated with terrorist groups planted something inside "Twumpy Force One".
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will have a Regular Force regiment based at the Connaught Ranges in Ottawa in lieu of a reformed 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, which will stay Militia-only.
Enjoy!
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/1...
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I know
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And attached from the Royal Canadian Air Force would be 1 x tactical helicopter squadron with a mixture of utility and scout helicopters (Iroquois and Kiowa).
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1 x Combat Engineer Regiment (battalion) with 2-3 field engineer squadrons
1 x Field Ambulance (light battalion) for health services
1 x Service Battalion (logistics & maintenance)
1 x Military Police Platoon (security)
1 x Headquarters and Signal Squadron (company-size) for command & control /2
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It usually ran like this:
1 x Armoured Regiment (battalion-size) with 3-4 tank squadrons (company-size)
1 x Artillery Regiment (battalion-size) with 3 gun batteries and one air defence battery
3 x Infantry Battalions with 4 rifle companies and a combat support/weapons company
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Nice ORBATs. One little nitpick, though: Company-level elements of an Artillery Regiment (no matter the type) in Canada are known as batteries, not companies.
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You know, the instant I saw "CAST", I recalled the Canadian Air-Sea Transportable brigade concept centred around 5e GBMC in Valcartier, QC in the 1970s to help defend northern Norway.
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will be reconfigured to a motorized brigade as well.
For the full-sized charts, go here:
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/1...
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/2...
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LAV 6s and Archer artillery systems to act as immediate backup to 4 CMBG. 22 Canadian Brigade Group (Motorized) (22 CBG [MOT]) would be a wheeled formation mostly centred on off-road vehicles such as TAPVs, M-RZRs and DAGORs, with artillery provided by RCH 155 howitzers. Note that 30 Brigade /2
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and 4 x light infantry brigades (one airmobile/airborne, one Arctic, one amphibious with airmobile capability, and one mountain airmobile with amphibious capability). Full breakdowns of the units will be forthcoming on #DeviantArt when I get the energy to write it.
#ORBATBoys
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True
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OWA?
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Could be done.
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As follows:
5e RFCC: BvS10s with 25 mm M242
8e Régt ACRC: BvS10s with K6 mortars in Batteries "X" & "Y", BvS10s with 20 mm M168 guns in Batterie "Z"
8e RGC: Modified BvS10s with various engineer equipment
3e R22eR/1 RHC/1re GGC: BvS10s with M134 miniguns & M2 .50 HMGs.
Also, updated:
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Here's a more clearer image, taking a PNG file direct from spatialillusions.com/unitgenerator/ in lieu of using an SVP file, then converting same. Some mistakes were corrected as well.
To get a closer view, right-click and select "view in separate window"; the text comes nice and clear there.
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And for those who need a clearer image, here's what's at #DeviantArt:
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/3...
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And the link to #DeviantArt page:
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/1...
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And the #DeviantArt link:
#ORBATBoys
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Well, here's the original 8th Division's patch, plus background information on the WW2 home defence formation:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Can...
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If you can't see the chart posted here, here is where it can be seen on #DeviantArt:
www.deviantart.com/pyeknu/art/1...