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Canadianarmytoday-V4i2-Fall2020 CANADIAN TODAY FALL 2020 | VOL. 4 | ISSUE 2 THIS ISSUE • Army Modernization: LGen Wayne Eyre • Road to Readiness Less Travelled • RCEME in Transition • A Pathfinder’s Trials • Training in a Pandemic • Tactical Mobility • Medium-Energy Lasers • War Gaming Adapting to a Pandemic The Army on Op Laser GENERAL DYNAMICS IS DELIVERING THE BRIGADE AS A PLATFORM SEE HOW AT www.gdmissionsystems.ca/land [email protected] GENERAL DYNAMICS IS DELIVERING CANADIAN TODAY THE BRIGADE AS A PLATFORM IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2020 | VOL. 4 | ISSUE 2 THEME 14 ADAPTING TO COVID by Chris Thatcher Promoted in the midst of a pandemic, Col David Coker, the Army Surgeon, had to advise how best to adapt to a novel virus and resume force generation. 18 INTO THE BREACH by Ian Coutts When COVID-19 struck, Regular and Reserve Force members deployed into long-term care facilities in Quebec and Ontario to help Canada’s most vulnerable. These are their stories. 24 NOVEL TASKS by Allan Joyner In Igloolik and other hamlets across the Territories, members of 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group conducted tasks well outside their normal routines. 28 TRAINING IN A PANDEMIC by Chris Thatcher As the training system ramps back up after a four month pause, restoring readiness and building resiliency are at the forefront for the commander of CADTC. DEPARTMENTS 26 RESERVE FORCE by Lt(N) Andrew McLaughlin Never more prepared: As soldiers mobilized to confront a pandemic, the Grey and Simcoe Foresters prepared in isolation for a worst-case scenario. 66 IN PROFILE by Chris Thatcher Defence diplomat: As the first exchange officer in U.S. Army Pacific headquarters, Maj Mick Bioletti has a unique vantage point from which to survey the Indo-Pacific. 70 SCIENCE & TECH by George Nikolakakos and Maude Amyot-Bourgeois Combat simulation: After more than a decade on hiatus, defence scientists are revitalizing a critical “war-gaming” experimentation capability. 74 ON THE HORIZON Beard breaks: The outgrowth of facial hair has created a problem for those who must wear respirators as part of their job. One company has IDEaS to solve it. On the Cover: Fus Abdel-Masih Bassous, an infantry soldier SEE HOW AT with Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal, cleans a room at Centre d’hébergement Jean-De La Lande www.gdmissionsystems.ca/land in Montreal during Op Laser. Photo: Avr Zamir Muminiar [email protected] CANADIAN ARMY TODAY | FALL 2020 3 CANADIAN TODAY IN THIS ISSUE FALL 2020 | VOL. 4 | ISSUE 2 FEATURES 34 THE ROAD LESS TRAVELLED by Chris Thatcher After a lengthy pause in its training schedule, 2nd Canadian Division will follow a road to high readiness notably different from previous years. 38 ADO-READY Under a modernization strategy, the Army is revising its Managed Readiness Plan and launching an initiative to examine every aspect of its structure. Army Commander LGen Wayne Eyre explains. 44 RCEME IN TRANSITION by Allan Joyner As the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Corps enters the last quarter of its first century, it’s facing new challenges to how it operates on the modern battlefield. 48 AGAINST THE ODDS by MCpl Mark Kusi-Appiah The Patrol Pathfinder is a legendary course where mythical bush creatures crawl out from underground and attend as candidates. A Reservist shares how he survived. 52 TACTICAL MOBILITY by Chris Thatcher After gathering the lessons from a buy-and-try, light infantry battalions could soon have a faster and more agile way to reach their objective. 56 SEEKING NEW WATER SOURCES by Maj Don Parker When the CAF identified a need to improve how water is provided at the sub-unit level, the Army launched an advanced water purification system project. 58 RADAR IN THE ARCTIC by Chris Thatcher How an Air Force spoke kit and the Army’s medium range radar delivered a coalition air picture on an exercise in the Arctic that reached all the way to NORAD headquarters. 62 THE FUTURE OF MEL by Dominik Pudo et al. High-energy laser (HEL) weapons are finding their functions in modern armed forces. That has pushed medium energy lasers into the limelight. 4 CANADIAN ARMY TODAY | FALL 2020 Join us at CANSEC, booth 1621. 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Connected-Battelspace_CANSEC-Airshow_Can Army Today 8.5x11_ad-2.indd 1 3/4/20 11:47 AM CANADIAN TODAY EDITOR’S NOTE CONTRIBUTORS Six months ago, in this space, we commented Publisher & Editor: Christopher Thatcher on the importance of the Army Reserve to domestic Contributing Editor: Ken Pole emergency response. The context was Operation Contributing Editor: Ian Coutts Lentus, and in particular the flooding in eastern Contributing Editor: Allan Joyner Ontario. But the Canadian Armed Forces had Contributing Writers: Mark Kusi-Appiah, Don Parker, Andrew McLaughlin, just begun contingency planning to deal with George Nikolakakos, Maude Amyot-Bourgeois, Dominik Pudo et al., Noel Mackey an emerging novel coronavirus and it seemed Photographers: Allan Joyner, Daniel Rogall inevitable the Reserves might again play an Contributing Photographers: Sgt Nathan Barbary, Shelby Barton, Cpl Genevieve important role. Beaulieu, Cpl Valerie Côté, MCpl Rod Doucet, Cpl Justin Dreimanis, Cpl Laurian Just a few months later, hundreds of Reservists deployed into long-term Ene, Cpl Stuart Evans, Capt Gabriel Ferris, Sgt Craig Fiander, Cpl Peter Ford, care facilities in Ontario and Quebec, a mission neither the Army Commander Cpl Jordan Fountain, Sgt Marc-André Gaudreault, Cpl Éric Girard, LCpl Jose nor Canadian Joint Operations Command saw coming, despite running through Gonzalez, MCpl David, Hardwick, WO Jerry Kean, MCpl Jax Kennedy, Pte Robert multiple scenarios of what might transpire and the requests for assistance Kingerski, Cpl Darcy Lefebvre, 1st Lt Angelo Mejia, Cpl Cody Misner, Pte Sarah provincial governments could ask. It was a further reminder of why initiatives Morley, Cpl Nathan Moulton, Avr Zamir Muminiar, MCpl Brandon O’Connell, like Strengthening the Army Reserve and investments in Reserve infrastructure Capt Felix Odartey-Wellington, Pte Daniel Pereira, OS Alexandra Proulx, matter. AB Camden Scott, Sgt Bruno Turcotte, Cpl Djalma Vuong-De Ramos In this issue, we share some of the stories from the front lines of the Content Coordination: Directorate of Army Public Affairs pandemic. Members of several Domestic Response Companies describe Graphic Design: Stoneway Creative Inc. their experience of deploying into the unknown and how it affected them. Web Development: Wavelength Media The Commanding Officer of 1 Canadian Ranger Patrol Group explains how Social Media: Allan Joyner Productions members responded to food shortages and conducted wellness checks in Advertising: Christopher Thatcher communities across the Territories. And 4th Canadian Division’s Arctic Response Company Group shares their training regime for a worst-case mission that CONTACT US fortunately never came. LOOKING FOR MORE? We also look at the consequences of putting much of the force generation We welcome article ideas and feedback. nd system on pause for almost four months. For 2 Canadian Division, it will Phone: 613-983-8141 mean a road to high readiness unlike any in recent memory. For most, though, Email: [email protected] it has resulted in a gradual resumption of professional development courses Mail: 300 Greenbank Road, Unit 2, Ottawa, ON, K2H 0B6 and individual training that are now in full swing. Web: www.canadianarmytoday.com Collective exercises, however, may take much longer to return. And that comes with a cost. “By canceling Exercise Maple Resolve last year, we have lost some proficiency at the brigade level,” Army Commander LGen Wayne Eyre FOLLOW US acknowledged. “This is a risk we are assuming eyes wide open. We are going to be making up that shortfall over the course of the next few years.” Certain capabilities need the challenge of a brigade-level exercise to get a proper “workout,” he noted, including engineer regimental headquarters, CdnArmyToday @CdnArmyToday artillery regimental headquarters, and service battalions when they are conducting sustainment at scale. “That is going to be the critical one: How SUBSCRIPTIONS do we not learn the wrong lessons when we are not exercising in real life the entire enterprise.” [email protected] Smart organizations capitalize on disruption. 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