Recent content by RedFive

A good number already hold a position in the integrated units. When their municipal department calls them up and tells them they're coming home (usually after their 5 year stint is complete), they badge over immediately when promised they'll be allowed to stay. Which is great for them, and at...

There's a fair bit of anger out here where the E Division Experienced Officer Program has enjoyed a lot of success filling those kinds of jobs people work their asses off for, like ERT, CFSEU, IHIT, and FSOC, whereas career Mounties are being left to slog it out on GD For some weird...

Needed a degree to commission and I find history very interesting. Never ended up commissioning though, chose to stick around as an NCM Reservist when CFRC blew me off for the Reg Force Officer jobs I wanted. I did get pushed very hard into the degree = success camp by my parents too. But...

Fair enough. I'm not one who spends his time whining online (I say as I type out this reply), but I am part of a generation that did what I was told was right and still can't get ahead. I started working at 16, and have ever since. I've had two jobs since I was 18. I used them to pay for a...

I would like a deal similar to what my colleagues with Vancouver Police have, the city continues to pay them and they relinquish their Army pay to the city. Not looking to double dip on pay, but seeming as both my jobs pull from the same purse at the end of the day, I can't see why there...

Perfect, expand it. Then stop making me piss away an entire year's worth of leave just to take a career course.

Uh huh. Sure you are.

Damn. I had hoped the rank patch would be on the right arm only, the plethora of stupid patches would be done away with and the shoulder titles would go back to cloth at the top of the sleeve, if we didn't do away with them altogether. Oh well.

VPD has been pretty open about the fact the perpetrator in this case has a long mental health history with Police and they do not believe this to be ideological or terrorism based. But yeah they may be worried about opportunists I guess

To be fair I don't know if I would have made it, let alone been that good. But it was certainly a major disappointment for me to have some infantry sergeant assigned to the CFRC decide I wouldn't have what it took without even trying. Take my experience and multiply it by the entire country...

Years ago, I tried to get in to the RCAF as a pilot. CFRC told me I wasn't good enough and suggested the Reserves to "get my foot in the door". And when I say I was told I wasn't good enough, this was a conversation with a recruiter prior to any of the testing results he could have used to...

My point is its bad journalism. 90% of the article is making the case that this man was justified in killing one, and wounding two police officers and then leaves the slight caveat of, having recognized it was the police, continued to engage in a gunfight with them for a considerable amount of...

That article goes to painful lengths to try and justify the fact the accused didn't know it was police and reacted in self defence, and then in a single sentence at the very end of the story allows "After Mueller is downed in the first volley of nine rounds, Bellefeuille goes on to shoot...

Sounds good to me. Our recruiting material these days is full of two things. High speed low drag stuff like dogs, ERT, air services, marine services, etc or well dressed plainclothes members looking like they're thinking really hard looking at computer screens. The rare time a frontline member...

No reason. Just checking in, ya know? locks eyes with the nearest fellow ground pounder in disbelief