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Sep 11, 2019 · During the Second World War men rose through ranks much quicker than they do today due to heavy losses and they went from private to corporal and corporal to sergeant after serving only a small amount of time. But how much time was that, approximately? A few months? A year? Two years? Or perhaps more/less?
Jun 12, 2006 · There, during three summer days, July 1-3, 1863, the nation’s fate may have been decided. When the battle was over, General Robert E. Lee’s Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began the retreat to Virginia, defeated by Major General George G. Meade’s Union Army of the Potomac.
- Background
- Reasons For Change
- Unification
- Significance
The unification of the three armed services was not a new idea in Canada. It began with the creation of a single National Defence Headquarters (NDHQ) in 1922 and was studied further in the 1930s. Significant changes did not happen until the 1950s, however, under Brooke Claxton, Liberal Minister of Defence(1946–54). Claxton created the position of c...
Hellyer was motivated in part by his experience in the armed forces during the Second World War. Hellyer was serving in the RCAF when the manpower crisis of 1944 occurred. As a result, he was remustered to the army, where he had to complete another basic training course. He carried the memory of this inefficiency and other duplications in services ...
In 1960, the government established a Royal Commission on Government Organization, commonly known as the Glassco Commission. Volume 4 of the commission’s report, issued in 1963, included the Department of National Defence(DND). The report identified bottlenecks, administrative confusion and duplication in DND. Hellyer’s solution was unification: th...
Hellyer’s attempt to unify the Canadian armed forces was only partially successful. At its core, the CAF remains a unified organization. Support services and some higher headquarters are fully unified. This includes NDHQ, Strategic Joint Staff, Canadian Joint Operations Command, Canadian Special Operations Forces Command, Military Personnel Command...
