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If they would publish official updates from DSigs every month or so it would go a long, long way to quashing rumors that some people have been acting on. Explaining specifically the steps the process has to go through to get a decision and then saying every so often "Currently the pay review is...

This APS will be a slaughter in AB if oil and gas starts laying people off. I have some old school buddies that work up there and they're saying most of the exploration and services companies are either starting to lay off now or are warning all their employees that it's coming. That's going...

Won't be in JSR at all most likely, you need to DAG green before they'll issue a posting message. That said, there are more places than just JSR in Kingston (if K-town is high on your list) there's significant positions at base, CFSCE shop, CFJOSG, RMC, CDA.

Interesting rumor, but I've heard the same story told about 4 different ways with no one getting it, then CST getting it and then CST and IST getting it with the branch still fighting for the whole trade and I've heard that the branch gave up on LST and Core and now are just pushing CST and IST...

That works until you realize the next guy wrote his mediocre soldiers up as walking on water and now you've set your star performers back 2 or 3 years in their career because you wanted to stand on principle.

Depends on the sensibility of your unit. I've been places that involved about 3-5 times the amount of writing of the PER in unit specific spreadsheets and PER file folders. One notable one had a spreadsheet that wanted you to give a full paragraph on each performance and potential factor...

Have you considered ACISS? It's essentially the same work as ATIS except there's months of field time and you get paid $600 less a month. (It's a been a while since I worked in recruiting, I don't think I'm doing it right)

As an IST, you will often find yourself going "somewhere" for "something" but "something" typically is a 2 week install or fix and you'll be back again. It's like 10,000 parts moving in ordered chaos. Ones and twos being flung over everywhere but the tasks are varied, interesting and most...

The units can develop, mentor, coddle and evaluate leadership potential all we want, but at the end of the day, it's the career manager's call who gets put on career courses. It's really a problem with the system. I have to honestly evaluate someone on performance, and there are many people...

Yes, however the tax rate for the US is lower, while at the same time they do get the universal medical care that our higher tax rate supposedly funds.

It's absolutely possible. I've heard of reservists on Reg BMQs plenty of times, I may be wrong, but I think the Air Reserve are predominantly loaded on Reg BMQs. That said, the path you are heading down won't win you any favors. On top of that Reg BMQs are no more guarenteed than Reserve, and...

They'll allow you to take anything that is prescribed by a Medical Officer.

Nice! Kind of wondered about the  comparisons, quite suprised by them too. Also take into account the difference in average time to promotion. I was talking with a US Army guy who said one guy he worked with made it to Sgt in 3 or 4 years, and that it took him 8 years, which was a little longer...

Yes, it's my fault that most of them are repeat divorcees. If only I spent more time in the mess their marriages could have been spared.

It makes no sense to me either. "We have it good, the military is a unique institution, but cheer while those benefits are cut back. Don't like it get out." It's an ridiculous extremist proposition, that the only solution to any problem is to leave. Don't like the fact the government has been...

I have to agree. Frankly I think the PMQs ought to be there mainly for lower ranks first. I know most bases do offer PMQs in reverse order of rank. They ought to be affordable to those who need them. The military makes special demands on families. They require soldiers to move, to uproot their...

There's a difference between safety and job performance. I remember taking safety risks when I was a new apprentice, but if I was injured there was a life long support system there for me. Soldiers now don't have that safety net. They are given a lump sum and pushed out the door. Now...

No, not neccessarily. But we do know the impact of op tempo on marriages, military life can be unpredictable, and we can be sent away for long stretches with little notice. That's why the time I do have, I rather spend with my wife and family, and not in the mess. We all have our personal...

Then I would say you must be one of the rare people whose marriage did not fail because of their overattachment to the military. Most of the people I see at the mess are at least on the second wife, if not third or fourth.

Ok, I've eventually got to call people on this. I don't think anyone on this board faught in world war 2, so we can stop using that as an arguement, I'd argue the soldiers we have now are at least as good and most likely as what we had 10 or 15+ years ago. Maybe the poor attitude some people...