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In theory I'd support it (keeping in mind that the executive curl is still a rumour and not a fact) but it depends on the details I guess.  What are you thinking of?  Changing the current ranks to the older RCN ranks?  IIRC, there were only 6 ranks in the RCN so how would you accommodate the...

CANFORGEN 090/09 CMP 039/09 141802Z MAY 09 SUBJ: POST LIVING DIFFERENTIAL (PLD) 2009/2010 RATES REFS: A. CBI 205.45 (POST LIVING DIFFERENTIAL) B. CBI 205.452 (TRANSITIONAL POST LIVING DIFFERENTIAL) C. CANFORGEN 061/08 CMP 024/08 311241Z MAR 08 1. THE PURPOSE OF THIS MESSAGE IS TO...

Agreed.  Like most things - it's all situational dependent.

The C8 is only 6.4 inches shorter than the C7.

The journalist was a SGT with the 101st Airborne Division during the Iraq invasion (albeit as a military journalist for the division).  You would think that with his background he would know better. http://www.armytimes.com/entertainment/books/military_tigrisbook_070716w/

1600 troops too many already, general says http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2217536 1600 x $47232 (Pte(R) plus 50% for benefits) = $75.5 million.  That would explain a fair amount of the army's share (of the adjustments) of $80 million.  Just a guess.  :2c:

Shared in accordance with the "fair dealing" provisions, Section 29, of the Copyright Act. Fri Jan 15, 4:46 PM By The Canadian Press OTTAWA - The Canadian Press has learned that the army has put 800 troops on standby for possible peacekeeping deployment to Haiti. The Conservative government...

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society website has announced that the Ady Gil (ex-Earthrace) sank while being towed. http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100107-1.html

Not really but I checked with an RMS Clerk who specializes in releases/CT and she says that it still works that way.

I'm not ROTP but when I transferred from the militia to the regs that was the way it worked.  My "release date" was 1 day prior to my "enrollment date" so there was no break in service.  I imagine that ROTP works the same way but "your mileage may vary".

"At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember..."

Wow - where to begin?  You believe the correct leadership is to insist that proper leadership is to use 728s to communicate with your subordinates?  Glad you're no longer with the Navy, we've tried hard to get rid of dinosaurs.  I hope your getting treatment for that Oppositional Defiant...

The suggestion to use a 728 is poorly thought out, whether in a 60 person submarine crew or a 7500 person base.  I called you and Occam on it.  Rather than accept that it was perhaps not the best plan, you both started attacking me.  I'm pretty sure I have never claimed to be anything more that...

Where'd that come from?  I already agreed with you that the old CF you served in bears no resemblance to my current experience.  In today's CF, having to submit memos with 728s to your CoC would be the sign of major problems.  The majority of today's generation would rather talk things out in a...

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. ~ Sir Winston Churchill