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I remember in high school we considered shop teachers to be in the teacher-adjacent category. Although part of that might have been related to some of their questionable behaviours.

In the reserves by the time someone gets to Sergeant, they have normally become steady in their careers or they get hired on to emergency services and no longer have time for the militia. Whatever the cause, we do seem to lose a lot of sergeants.

Well, we would have to have the weapons to do that. It seems every year all our machine guns pulled away for RST and then most of them get broken and sent away and we get them back in May in time to give them back to RST.

Well, they clearly should have shut down training for a day and had the entrie Forces search every facility.

There are multiple subjects which are not covered, including triage. From an instructor point of view, SJA is designed in a way that was almost designed to be taught by military instructors which specific time lengths for lessons and specific instructions for lessons. The Red Cross course is...

I have always kind of wondered what some of the people that the CAF nominated with no other service to St John Ambulance did to be accepted into the Order when civilian side the number of people accepted each years seems to be getting smaller. The CAF won't be nominating anyone for the next...

As it been long enough for the Navy to get another chance at it, or is that a once every three decades thing?

I'm looking forward to see how this works. Battle School courses are going to use Class A instructors who belong to 2 Div and will be using unit equipment and facilities controlled by 2 Div when they themselves are a seperate Division level formation. So as opposed to Units talking directly to...

And then a lot of the Admin Support we do have from the Regular Force/ some Class B only operates on the Reg Force CSS hours of 0800-1700 (by that I mean 0900-1100 and 1300-1500 for some places if your lucky) and a lot of the time aren't available to many PRes.

The fact that he was no longer serving should lead this to not being attached to the unit long term, as opposed to the CAR being associated with Somiliaia or that incident that occurred with a couple of Queen's Own Rifles a few years back while they were wearing their uniforms.

To a certain extent you will see that in many rural areas. Although, definitely some are a lot worse than others. The other thing is that people are becoming a lot more open about sharing their opinions then they were say two years ago. The comments section on most Facebook post about drive or...

I accepted the fact that my generation will never be able to retire many years ago.

I'm wondering how long before Canexit becomes a slogan after this affiliated membership thing.

Like the rest of society, mess culture has changed where there are far fewer of the new people who don't drink or drink less, plus many messes now have reduced hours due to C-o-C wanting to limit their liability. Many newer troops don't go to the mess very often unless they are required to...

Are you suggesting doing two weekends a month as opposed to one weekend and parade nights like some remote regiments do it? That is good in theory, but there are a number of issues with it. First of all, this isn't as bad as it used to be, but the assumption that the reserves still seems to...