Recent content by Frankonopolous

Joined as a cook ....rockin' out as an MP now  8) :threat: :bowing:

hahaha hilarious,  :rofl:

awesome thanks!

Couldn't find anything in the search, other day was talking to a fellow sailor after he was driving home from a wedding in his dress uniform; on his tunic I noticed paratrooper jumpwings. I didn't bother to ask (which I should have otherwise I wouldn't be asking now) But in the end are naval...

Nope, when I got my interview it was the exact same thing.

You said your enrolled for army right? Well to switch from army to navy you'd have to go through a Component Transfer (CT). It can take you from 6 months to two years to transfer in but before you can even think about transferring you'd have to complete BMQ and your trade qualification. I...

Sooo, tonight is my units junior ranks dinner, and out of no-where the organizer kinda dropped a bomb on me saying that I am going to be the one who is saying the toast of the day; since im the baby of the unit  :facepalm:  Anyway, I googled it since honestly I have no clue what it is, and I...

totally screwed up on that above post, my apologies; when it comes to forums and posting im a bit thick headed.  :facepalm:

Hah, I guess I'll be seeing a lot more of it, seeing as i'm almost located dead center in the country. (Winterpeg)

Anybody ever notice how the Canadian public is somewhat, unaware of our Naval personnel? ...the other day I was walking to my unit, and I was called a "scumbag corrections officer", I've heard similar stories from members of my unit that they've been mistaken for Police Officers, or even...

He gave me the idea of joining reserves as a naval cook, and after i turn 18 switch into reg force, then switch to army into the trade that id prefer, this way id have an "extra skill set". Me not knowing anything i took his advice and went withit until a friend of mine explained what an idiotic...

the CFRC career counseller talked me into his idea, Why be in a trade that wouldnt help me in the long run, im going into criminology for post-secondary so wouldnt it be the ideal decision to get into the occupation im getting educated in?  Any way as you said im 17, everyone makes mistakes...

I was ill-informed about trades by my CFRC and i signed up into the naval reserves, i currently in pre-bmq courses at my naval detachment, and id really like to transfer over to army as the army reserve has MP trades. My question is, is this possible before ive even started basic? how long...

Well I have a masssssive question because im a little confused, I recently just got sworn in and finally enrolled in the NAVRES, specifically HMCS Chippawa based in Winnipeg, so basically the farthest away from any type of water, dead center in Canada, heh well my question is do Navy personnel...