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While this argument appears to hold water, it doesn't because the thing this kind of argument fundamentally relies on is the myth of meritocracy. This standard you keep talking about is one that was made by a certain demographic for a certain demographic and took no others into account. In...

I didn't know the "band aid" was that recent. And I didn't know it had a pip on it. In the photos I saw from WWII, I didn't see a pip. Good to know. But many do not know this connection, so people are always asking me what the rank is (a LCdr asked me at NDHQ once). I knew the translation of...

Arguably, those in the combat arms will meet other fitness standards that are in the form of training standards. FORCE test gets you on the course, being able to succeed at it is what keeps you there. But not it isn't likely necessary to pass a Cooper's test to be a remote drone pilot. That's...

Sorry. I'm not as familiar with that. I'll try to figure it out. 😬

Except that I think there's a swing toward certain occupations sticking within their elemental lines. When I first joined in 2011, there would be Navy Log Os who never set foot on a ship and spent an entire career with army units (I think RAdm (Ret'd) Senator Patterson told me she was always...

I have endowed the C&E Branch with a lot of money buying slip-ons and collar dogs. I had to buy the SIGNALS ones when I arrived in Kingston. Then we switched to RCCS and I had to go buy another set of them. I turned my old SIGNALS slip-on into a wallet/card holder as a reminder of the money they...

I see three of something on my pip, but they look like acorns to me. And it says Tria Juncta in Uno around the centre. It's what I was given from Logistik in 2023 when I took a lucrative demotion to zero cadet. At Army ranks - Canada.ca the Vimy Star is in the image. I also recently learned that...

Change the language setting to French and suddenly it's Sailor 3rd class to Master Sailor but French. So, even pedants might want to argue the lack of legal standing, but there's a precedent for it because S3-MS is simply an English translation of the existing legal French rank designations.

What's not to understand about S3-S1? They are simply the English versions of the French ranks. From matelot 3e to matelot 1e to matelot-chef becomes Sailor 3rd class, 2nd class, 1st class, Master Sailor. I'm sure the only reason it hasn't been updated in the QR&Os has to do with someone needing...

And everyone you meet in any of these same kinds of hats will shape it differently. The most individualistic in the whole CAF is the army that screams "but we must all be the same!" 🤣

Brown Oxfords? But my black ones are already so shiny. Dammit. Is that really a thing? It looks like the concepts have black still.

I will be in this new DEU. It affects me. I'm not impressed with the design. Even with better materials or sizing, I expect some issues to remain. I hate the belt. I don't look good in a belt the same way I wouldn't look good in the double-breasted tunic (that and the bowler hat made me...

Oddly enough, there's a lot more thought going into uniforms, just not the kind of thought we who end up wearing think should be in it. Functionality doesn't seem to make it in. I have to take a moment to gripe about the "women's" Oxford. It's the kind of shoe that makes you think no one...

Enloe (2000) does mention this in a way. To manage masculinity, the military must also manage femininity. And when the US was designing the WAC uniforms, there was conscious thought about how to ensure the women didn't look too feminine and glamourous because glamour was thought to be too close...

I managed to exempt the EXPRES during BMQ, but it was just slightly past the exempt, and it was on the second go later in training. I did, however, do well on the BFT. I am built for carrying things, and a heavy ruck over 13k was a nice walk. I had to drag a dude who was about 195lbs plus kit...