Therefore it can not train sections, platoons, companies or battalions. The corporate memory of readiness for the operations of the 1970s and '80s is fast going, and Canada probably could not now assemble a modern battle-ready force without extensive foreign help beyond the provision of equipment. By contrast, the 101st is in a perpetual training cycle. The other two brigades are either rotating out of a foreign deployment or are involved in extensive collective training. The unit on standby is constantly training as well.
Training is tough, imaginative and concentrates on the basics.
Actually, Canadian training is imaginative too. Our soldiers are used to training by making considerable use of pretended resources. The 101st Division is the fulfilment of operational concepts that were only being discussed some 40 years ago. Even today, with the US military as disaffected as it is under the Clinton Administration, new equipment and techniques are constantly being provided to it. In terms of equipment and doctrine it is already one long revolutionary step ahead of what remains to the Canadian Army, and it is already entering the next revolution.