If you stop and realize the Skilled Labor situation we here in Canada are just now starting to experience, then you would say. Excellent strategy. The Army folk are accustom to being away from home for relatively long periods and their families and they themselves are often happy for the arrangement to continue to some extent as opposed to daily grinds, etc.. Thus, an excellent source of the right kind of skills and mental attitude. Trust me when I say; Urbanites really have no clue as to the nature of this planet. None! A week in cottage country is really just an other week in urbainia. Old Joe