MUAV use a throwback

The Canadian and American approaches to the use of micro-UAV's (MUAV) are contrasted in a very brief piece at Strategy Page:

So the Canadian system takes advantage of existing experience and procedure, to introduce a new technology (which replaces the artillery spotting aircraft that have been around since World War II). But the MUAV "belongs" to the artillery observer team, that team is in turn attacked to an infantry company or battalion. Thus these infantry units now have their own air force, and it's being run by someone familiar with how aircraft overhead operate, and what they can do.

With thanks to JMH for the pointer.

One additional point I'd make is that the army is so deeply involved in the use of UAV's by the CF partly because the air force dragged its feet for so long in embracing the concept of unoccupied aircraft. At least, that's what I've heard from a number of people in both sky-blue and green uniforms.