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... but that part was introduced years ago. Given our current recruitment and retention issues, I think it is quite clear that we need to put in effort to expand our recruiting pool beyond those who are just already "attracted to military life". This change can be a part of that initiative...

Well, to be fair, if it happened last week, Monday was when they removed the prohibition against hands in pockets from the accessible version of the dress instructions, although the actual change isn't coming into force until Sept.

I think one thing should be perfectly clear here: the fact that a person has been threatened with a charge for violating a "regulation" is not actually at all proof that said regulation exists. Far far too many people go through their career never bothering to check regulations before acting...

It's intended to be job training that is also structured in an academic manner, to allow for the dual benefit of both counting for (or towards) a Masters, while also getting the military qualification. Yes, the academic nature of it helps out as part of the "professionalization of senior...

0 Oh boy. Maybe I'm not cynical enough. I had just assumed people spouting off stuff like that were just grossly incompetent. Didn't even consider the idea that they were actively being malicious. And people wonder why we have a retention problem.

Would of course need to throw it in a bun or braids or something since it's below the collar. But otherwise definitely no issue there.

I'm not really sure why that would be considered going "very wrong". What's the problem here exactly?

The makeup sounds like it'd be a hassle to do on a daily basis. Just get it tattooed on instead.

Chewing gum is not an item of dress.

I mean, I suppose it might be helpful from a messaging perspective, but the orders in place for safety reasons are still perfectly valid. The update to the dress instructions was, after all, quite clear on the point that safety trumps all. Heck, if specifically mentioned the respiratory...

Not too complicated really. I didn't want to get stuck in the trap of being in the oil and gas industry and having to deal with massive layoffs every time there's an industry downswing. The military offered rock solid job stability with some decent benefits including the best pension in the country.

Imagine a world in which that's universally considered an unreasonable expectation. Employment expenses should be 100% on the employer. The fact that this isn't the case everywhere is simply an assault on the working class perpetrated by the rich.

Yeah... can't say that I'm a big fan of this whole "screw over literally every CAF member" plan. If the CAF wants to get out of paying for uniforms, then they need to stop mandating them.

I don't think I'm alone in being selective about which things I'll "go the extra mile for". I save that for things I consider important, and how well a uniform that I'd never actually choose to wear if I had a choice fits generally isn't one of them. The CAF as a whole has largely put too much...

The military has seen fit to create an entire L1 organization devoted to culture change. Why? Because even at the highest levels they're acknowledging that many aspects of military culture are fundamentally broken, and inherently toxic. This is a good example of exactly what it is that we need...

C'mon. I made a comment about how I refuse to personally pay for tailoring that the Crown should be paying for, and in response I got a forum moderator telling me that there's "not much that I will do" and that I'd be worthless in civilian employment, and a senior officer telling me that he...

What, and leave the place even more of an echo chamber?

And by doing so, you propped up the system yourself, with your own money. And thereby reduced any requirement that the nice folks who are in charge of allocating resources in order to fix problems like this would have otherwise had to do so. If you can't show up with a DEU tunic because there...

Oh cry me a fucking river. God forbid I react poorly against unjustified personal insults by a god damned moderator of this forum. Jesus it's no wonder this place has such a terrible reputation.

I don't find discussing those issues interesting. The material state of our materiel is well known, and largely isn't a technical issue at all, but a matter of political will / resource allocation. Endlessly discussing how all our stuff's broken and isn't going to get fixed is a bit too...