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volunteering for Casinos and at the Museum.
Eddies attend Exercise Maple Defender
At the Canadian Manouvre Training
Centre (CMTC)
By Hans Brink (L Col Retd)
Exercise MAPLE DEFENDER (MD)1101, which
occurred August 19-28 2011. Ex MD 1101 was
a Reserve exercise focusing on Level 3 (Platoon)
training in a Level 4/5 (Company/Combat Team
plus) context. Ex MD 1101 was not training soldiers
for deployment to Afghanistan, rather it is training
soldiers in the basics as general purpose combat
capable soldiers. To accomplish this, CMTC has
redesigned the training, taking a step away from
the Afghanistan model and use the Common
Contemporary Training Scenario (CCTS). The
troops participating on this exercise were all
equipped with the Weapons Effects Simulation
System.
This is significant because
as the CF combat role
in Afghanistan draws to
a close, the Army will
have a more pressing
requirement for a generic
exercise scenario that
will serve as a basis for collective training at all
levels. The CCTS model is currently being looked
at more closely and last June a writing board
convened to arrive at the exact design. It will
permit for training in Full Spectrum Operations
with a Force on Force kinetic focus. The intent is
that the opposing force will replicate a threat that
continues to involve insurgents and IEDs but also
increases the threat level with conventional combat
skills, which would be “near-peer” to the Canadian
Forces. Near Peer means that the enemy forces on
exercise will be equipped at the same level. If we
have tanks, so will they.
The Loyal Edmonton Regiment sent 40 members
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