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It's really an individual situation, and you really, like everyone is saying, need to go to a specialty running store.  Don't grab a neat looking pair from Foot Locker. If you have a pair of running shoes you've been using, bring them along as the staff at a running store can look at the wear...

We would never ever be able to use it, and CANTASS isn't a bad system at all when used correctly, instead of indifferently.  With fairly minor upgrades it could be much better, but the SQQ-89A(v)15 that I mentioned is the apex of surface ASW combat systems right now - it uses the SQS-53C hull...

I don't know if that's the way it works, now.  The gear is no longer accounted for in NPF stock, I don't get paid, and the money we got was just a pile of cash with no direction in how it was to be spent outside of "acquire stuff the right way" (three quotes, local supplier, etc).  I suppose the...

Keep in mind that sports was entirely NPF until very recently (I don't know what it is now, and I'm the Sports Custodian!), so money could be hard to come by.  And it's not the SportsO and Custodian that entirely define what the facilities are like, it has a lot to do with the XO, LogO, and how...

Well, sometime last year there was a suggestion in Warships International that Canada was looking at acquiring some of the stood-down US Ticonderogas, which wouldn't be too bad a solution and a lot faster than coming up with an indigenous design.  You've got your phased-array radar, two 5" guns...

It would be pretty tough to live on base as a reg force sailor, as after training they want you out of the accomodation to make room for new trainees.  There's some MS and below accomodation at Naden, but it's mainly for reservists on long term contracts or more senior types here on course or...

Yeah once you have a Home Port Division, you are more than likely going to stay with it for your career unless you want a change (and we've been getting a number of returnees from Halifax lately).  There are exceptions in some trades (NAVCOMMs can go to reserve units as Masters, SonarOps can go...

http://www.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/medical/visreq_e.html That link is getting burned out by the number of times I'm posting it  ;D If you don't want to read the whole thing then it's V3 standard with a max refractive limits of -2.00D sphere, 1.25D cylinder.  You'll see the last two numbers on...

It could still be up to a year - the QL3 is about six months long, and he could wait six months or more on PAT depending how the Fleet School is cycling courses.  I did!  But that was some time ago and was probably a worst-case scenario. I'm not going to lie and say it will be easy for a young...

booya http://www.toronto.drdc-rddc.gc.ca/medical/visreq_e.html Rather complex ophthamalogical requirements to be met, past just the refraction standards.

Now, bear in mind that getting your education while in the Forces is more than plausible, and there are great programs, it can be quite difficult to manage as a junior member.  It's always been a goal of mine to finish university, and I don't have much left to do, but something always comes up. ...

Yeah and when's the last time anyone changed those AREPS slides anyway (just kidding!). I don't think the spec pay thing is a big deal.  From the sounds of it the junior amalgamated operators won't be choosing the trade they go into, necessarily.  After their QL4 OJT they will write an...

Yeah so is Discovery in Vancouver, I was wondering what would happen with that.

Can't argue about your choice for the JSS, but as for the LHA I doubt we'd be able to name a ship after a battle these days. I've always really liked Nonsuch and think it should get back into circulation with a seagoing unit.  Nonsuch (Henry Hudson's ship), Discovery (George Vancouver's ship)...

No no, I have absolutely no problem with the removal and apologize for any vagueness.

No, Sir.  You'll notice there is (at least) a post removed in this thread.  The paradox is that a lot of information deemed sensitive is nonetheless readily available, especially on the internet.  That still isn't going to absolve a person, especially if he or she is involved in the subject in...

That's very true - you see boomers a lot when you are in the straits.  The SJDF is too shallow and too busy for a big boat like that to transit submerged.  There's a sub out west (and probably another, eventually) because China is the biggest conventional "threat" in the world these days.  The...

You'll have a roomate or three - at max, there are four people to a room.  When I was there you could have a TV (including digital cable and stuff like the Playboy Channel), computer, stereo, and whatever other conveniences you could jam in.  A guy on my QL3 course had an oriental rug and a...

Keep in mind it can be frustrating on our end because quite honestly, despite quite a lot of searching on everyone's part up to and including my P1 there is nothing unambiguously stating that competition has opened.  Moreover the only place that indicates what MOCs are open, that I have seen...

Well, I'm screwed as I don't see ANAV on that list.  Harumph. Thanks anyway. Do you suppose there would be any differences between what is open for serving members and civilian applicants?  In the way that as a UTPNCM I could apply for any MOC?  (obviously a very faint and unrealistic hope on...