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I'm going to go with you meanning 12 Oct 05, as I recall seeing the instruction around that time.  I interviewed with my BPSO (also at Esq) in November about commissioning options and he (and I) believed that CEOTP was the option best suited to me.  He also said much the same thing with regard...

The MOSART briefings earlier in the year not only indicated but said for sure that the ops trades are amalgamating.  It's not a rumour anymore.  But, only at the sub QL5 level, so it won't really effect anyone who's in now.

Yes on paper all that should work just fine.  But in reality, on a ship, I've never seen it work well.  There are too many places in the chain of command for it to stop or turn around, and far too many avenues for the member to fight the steps.  If the issue is urgent enough, like drugs, I have...

Because soon (in the next couple of years) all the ops trades will be amalgamated into one trade at the sub QL5 level.  That means you'll spend your first three years at sea doing all the ops jobs as a general combat operator, and pick a specialty for your journeyman course.  At that point you...

First, it's not "sea pay," it's officially called sea duty allowance. Five years or less service with a seagoing unit will get you $274/mo before taxes.  It goes up after that, then again at nine years, and again, I think, at twelve. The incentives are based on cumulative time, not...

When I was a Nelles (not too long ago...) birds was pretty bad, certainly not a vacation.  They had plenty of extra drill and training, change parades, picking up garbage, you name it.  No TV, no internet and confined to the MUP room.  I can't see that having changed, because they're really on a...

No, you certainly can't "defer" sea time, esecially as an Ordinary Seaman.  The only circumstance where you could would be if you had a baby.  Then you can take a load of leave at 90% salary (as in months).  The downside to that is that the time is not pensionable nor does it count toward career...

I think this comes down to the fact that it is pretty much impossible to fire anyone from the CF, or at least the Navy.  We're too desperate to keep asses in the seats, and the "firing" process is so biased in the problem member's favour that he can be such a poor performer over the course of a...

As a NESOP there's not much to deal with in the way of heights.  You do have to wear a harness out on the forecastle, as NESOPs are responsible for lowering and raising the guardrail there in any kind of weather or time of day.  The guardrail is lowered any time there is potential for the main...

It's not my place to elaborate but yes, they get treated worse than Engineering or Logistics Officers.  This is from my Wardroom mole, who has always been reliable.  I've seen one or two chewed out by the Captain on the bridge, in front of everyone, but that's rare.  It seems more...

Air Nav has the same height restriction as Pilot - 157-194cm. ref http://www.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/medical/glfs_e.html That's about 5'2" minimum.

Depends where you want to live.  You can live for cheap in Esquimalt proper, around $600/mo for a one bedroom.  In nicer areas you're looking at around $750 to $850.  My building is a condo-style complex, and I pay just over $1000 for a one bedroom plus den.  I live sort of near UVic (actually...

I would have been miserable - I can't speak for anyone else, and lots of MARS officers love their jobs.  In my situation, it would have been a case of expectations not matching realities.

Victoria is currently sitting in the ditch in Esquimalt Dockyard still on this side of a 72 week docking work period.  She's not going anywhere for a while.  She's a learning case for west coast Canadian dockyard workers, which is why it's going to be such a long period. Word is either...

Vegetarianism isn't that big a deal.  My ship has a couple, and has had others in the past.  While the cooks won't whip you up a special meal every night, you can cobble together something, and as often as not one of the meal choices will not have meat (there are normally two choices per meal)...

I think the point is that Navcomms do Morse all the time.  Whether it's reading lights or listening to it is pretty irrelevant, as it's the same code.

Yep, they do this fairly often.  And semaphore, too.  Walk by N50 at almost any time of year and there will be QL3 Navcomms in the parking lot reading lights.

The PLD adjustment is a result of some sort of weird averaging across the country, and doesn't really reflect reality.  Living in Victoria is very expensive - if you make less than 100k a year (household) you will not own a home in Victoria itself, full stop.  Even then you will be tight -...

Believe me, not all ops/cbt guys are getting fasttracked.  Sonar is very stagnant (at least out here), because we went though that phase.  And i just missed it, wouldn't you know it.  A buddy and I sat down the other day and tried to figure out the soonest I could get a leaf, let alone my P2s...

No, I was thinking about this a bit today (because I don't have anything else to do...joking) and I believe it's because even though tech and operator trades both require high levels of knowledge and commitment, the fact is that tech trades have to apply it near 100% of the time (or the ship...