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The CANFORGEN message was supposed to be out today to rename Air Command to the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Maritime Command to the Royal Canadian Navy, and Land Forces Command to the Canadian Army. It undoes part of the visible reminder of Unification. A lot of rebranding work to do, and I expect it will take a decade for all the little vestiges to disappear.

However, it does not remove the 'purple' trades and unified structures that eliminated triple redundancies. I'll be waiting to see how the tri-service Signals branch armwrestles itself over the name Royal Canadian Signal Corps. There was no Air Force or Navy named equivalent. The Royal Canadian Army Service Corps has changed so much that the Logistics branch wouldn't recognize itself in the old corps (and that might not be such a bad thing either).