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Wait. Is this a posting, and not TD?

Contrary to popular belief and what they might say, course staff do not have the ability to just remove students from a course for failure or really anything else either. There is a very detailed process that begins with Standards reviewing the details and providing recommendations and ends with...

They most likely receive an allowance to live on the economy that would cover their rent and food. It would not surprise me if MCE had a contract with a local rental agency.

The Cougars originally in A'stan with the CF were not part of EROC (in the BG CS Engr Sqn), they were part of the CIED Sqn (in the TF HQ). Prior to the stretched version arriving in 2009, there were 2 seats in the back, one right behind the front passenger seat, and a second beside the comms...

This is an interesting comment. Failure of a career course should be triggering an AR, so how are these individuals being reloaded added ASAP? And failure two or three times? Huh? Every PY in the CAF has competencies, language profile and minimum ranks attached to them. If a member doesn't...

Yes, yes and yes. Some courses are designated all arms, meaning any trade can take them, i.e. driver courses, some are made available to Cbt Engr by their supported battalions based on space available, i.e. machine gunner, recce patrolman.

No. Construction Techs are a cross between framing carpenters, painters, masons, drywallers and finish carpenters. Combat Engineers do a small amount of rough carpentry, but the rest of our trade is a complete 180 from what the 600 series guys do. If you use the search function here you'll see...

According to the CFTDTI, there is no differentiation between RegF and PRes. If you look specifically at Chapt 7, which deals with travel in CANUS that requires an overnight stay (i.e. more than 500km one way): 7.4.1(5) (Paid Leave) A member who requests to use a PMV — rather than the more...

This is not true. The policy actually says "1 day of paid leave" which encompasses other types of leave as well. I've made POMV trips on company time over 500km using short, special and weekend leave passes. Some units have specific SOP on what type of leave they want used (some specifically...

You may be able to ask for a PLAR for that course. I know that the EDF out in Comox take that course to qualify them on the RHIBs, and I would even go so far as to say that it might have a CF course code. I would give it a try anyways - the worst that could happen would be for the PLAR to be...

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Depending on the applicants' rank,  the CO's comments are usually written by the applicant's immediate CoC (i.e the Pl Comd / 2IC or by the Sub unit 2IC based off the Pl CoC input). Could be just an engineer thing, but I have always seen potential candidates interviewed by the CO as part of the...

Not sure why you're quoting 2 years - an applicant for SF Op only needs to be at OFP, which in most cases for Cbt Arms soldiers is QL3 qualified. That could (in theory) take more or less time, depending on the stars lining up or not. Obviously you're pretty discouraged your file never went...

Police services generally make CF members do a couple years as a beat cop before taking them onto their specialist teams - even for qualified and experienced CF divers and bombtechs. Even then, they have to take and pass the police equivalent course. 99% of Cbt Engr do not have any transferable...

I wouldn't call it a doctrinal problem, I'd blame the exercise planners for not including realistic tasks into the ex. As far as that vid, what a waste of explosives and pyro - nothing like firing off a specialized charge into the dirt with a smoke pot running that is only obscuring the vision...