Recent content by chimo2u

Congrats Sarah! My son is a week ahead of you

Congrats! What trade where you offered?

Congrats! I know how long you've been waiting and hoping :) enjoy St Jean , my son is starting week 7, it's all worth it :-)

Congrats! What where you offered?

:) WOW! Thank you for that! Best reply so far! You hit the Nail on the head and slammed it to the finish! Your words remind me of my hubby's work ethic/ basic trg experiences! (Cornwallis 1987) his first job off the bus when he arrived, coveralls on stripping and waxing floors!!! You guys had it...

oh my son's on week 3 at BMQ :) They just recently learned what the North Doors where all about, fun times! :)

Hi  :) Congrats on your engagement and future wedding! I see you say you'll have to turn down any offers between FEB and JUNE, and I just wanted to caution you against that , as most of the recruiting / course selections for this year are getting pretty slim, I'd say (I think there's 2 more bmq...

Hi Chelomo :) thanks for your post, it was very informative and I completely think this (more private quarters) is definitely the reason for the difficulty in achieving uniformity and team work! Hopefully it'll come together sooner rather than later :) I'm hoping things are going well for him...

No worries :) ( actually that wasn't my quote! :) ) but I understand exactly what you mean and agree 100% that all kinds of personalities prevail. Thanks for your great advice and I'll be sure next time I'm able to talk to him to let him know it'll all fall into place and work itself out :)

;) good thing I didn't pack his kit then, lol! I'm sure he'll adapt and do fine, it's me having the hard time not worrying about my kiddo, I'm sure we, his parents will see the good side to his leaving the house, just hasn't happened for me yet! Lol

Good Afternoon  :) Well, my son is beginning week 2 of BMQ and it seems from what he has said, team work is not as easy being in the blue sector. The recruits are in small groups of 5 to a pod, with private room and a door/ this set up is making it hard to gel as a team. I think being in the...

My son just flew in for basic trg this week , tomorrow is his first day. Their schedule has the PT test booked for Tuesday -- so they've been told day 2 is the test day for his platoon :)

Sounds great! But just remember -- never trust anything in the military until you have that signed leave pass in your hands! Things can change at any given time and it would suck to make plans only to have a wrench thrown in them due to a schedule shift no matter how small! Don't make plans...

My son just left for BMQ today. I emailed cflrs this direct question a few weeks ago as I was trying to arrange our Christmas plans This is an excerpt from their response to my email: "The Christmas break at CFLRS will take place from December 12th to January 4th. Candidates will soon be...

Hi Wuzzard :) yes ... He starts on the 20th too! Good luck to you as well and Congrats on your selection :)