Quote Originally Posted by marct View Post
...Given the relatively small size of the CF, we need a PME model that is aimed at producing multi-skilled people along the line of the Roman Legionaries (high quality to make up for low numbers).

We already have quite high quality in most of the directly military areas, but a lot of the auxilliary skill sets, the ones that would also lead to higher paying non-military jobs, aren't that available. We also need to reinvigorate the social cachet of holding a commission (I know, it was a status marker because you used to have to buy them ).
And applicable to others as well as -- or more so than -- Canada.