Budget Cuts?

[diamondcutter13]

makes Wainwright look like a good choice.

Edmonton could work using the Passchendale range, but it does not have the firing berms. Or use the ATS but set up targets if you want berms. R&Q are an issue, well just that there are no quarters, and no you can't set up mod in my back yard

Wainwright will depend on how busy they are. I don't mind the quarters now that they have the Yukon lodges built.

only problem I see is that if I go I would end up working on a bunch of issues there that need sorting.

Edmonton is no good without gallery target systems that we can do snap and rapid on. Using the ATS last year was a giant waste of time, which means it was also a waste of money. A no go for service rifle training. Pistol we can do here. How about a proposal to renovate the entire Edmonton range complex into gallery and gunfighter ranges woodchopper? In the budget for next year?

Regardless, whatever practice time we get and wherever it happens will be up to the individual areas funding it, no money from DAT this year except for CFSAC proper. Therefore if the area can not afford it, it will be up to individual units to pay for training. LFWA seems on track for funding but other areas maybe not so much thus the comment about Valcartier being dead these days.

 

[Jay T]

Range 4 here in sunny Wx is perfect for pistol they have baricades, window ledges, and the likes already in the hut there. Used them just before Xmas. Longshot doesn't want to come out here because he has to buy the beer this time.

 

[Longshot]

Haha that's way down the list of why I don't want come up there!

 

[Mike_R23A]

CFSAC is on for 5-18 Sep 10. Budget doom and gloom is just rumour until the Fiscal Year is over. Not every budget in the CF is going to suffer just because Afghanistan or the Olympics run over cost, it just does not work like that. If fact some units with well prepared forward planning lists and well managed budgets have benefited greatly this year from being underspent.

It all depends on the FY 10-11 Budget, if there are further cuts to the Army then all bets are off...

 

[woodchopper]

Edmonton is no good without gallery target systems that we can do snap and rapid on. Using the ATS last year was a giant waste of time, which means it was also a waste of money. A no go for service rifle training. Pistol we can do here. How about a proposal to renovate the entire Edmonton range complex into gallery and gunfighter ranges woodchopper? In the budget for next year?

just spent >1M back in FY07-08 fixing the place up

now you want galleries would you settle for a grenade range