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Heh, thanks guys for the help and encouragement. I'm very excited to get my career moving forward, and I'll keep posting updates (if that's considered appropriate?)

I heard back from NDHQ on the 11th of December, asking for my home & work phone numbers as well as acknowledging that I had started the CT. They also asked for me to verify my MPRR (which I'm going to go update today, since I just did 18 days of Class B) and asked the same of my unit's Chief...

Heh, fair enough. Looks like I'll be limited to eating snow when it's that cold outside. Cheers!

How about Rocky S2v Tacticals? I know they come in both tan and black, and I've heard good things about them from guys in my unit... anyone here used them on deployment?

Seen. Next time I'm doing any winter ex, I'll try that out. If it's under -15, you're pretty much guaranteed of freezing though, eh? Even with the CP gear insulation sleeves?

Proportional Commons, Elected Senate (with a fixed, equal number of Senators per province/territory, maybe) and Elected GG. That's how I see democracy working best for us. Yeah, it would affect the party I voted for last election (Tories) negatively, but I think the ultimate point of having...

Going down to Camp Shelby Mississippi, and from what I understand it'll be quite a bit warmer there than it is up in the frigid north, NLE. :) Other than that, is there any sort of insulation (like the stuff sold on CP gear) that actually works and would prevent freezing while up here?

Yep, just got mine in. Works very well, obviously gonna have to field test it, which should be in the next few weeks. I'll get back here when that's done.

Yep, already contacted Mr. Hardesty who got back to me very speedy. Looks like I'll have this thing ready for our adventure in Camp Shelby, and before I go off to re-do my infantry school for Regs. Cheers!

Their website's store does not appear to work, for purchases of military spec gear. I get a 'page not found', which is unfortunate. Looks like I'll be contacting through email! Thanks for the post.

I'm not so sure that pouring rubbing alcohol on your feet is a particularly good idea. Have you tried this out yourself? Did it work? That said, doing short marches at first will help you out quite a bit, from my (admittedly very short) experience. Go for 4-6km ruck marches a couple times...

My platoon LT had me fill the application in on the intranet tonight, which I obviously didn't have access to. He's a "Reserves exist to augment the Reg Force" kind of guys (thank god) and gave me some info packets on how the whole process works, again, off the intranet. So it's all in the...

That's what I gathered from my friend, a Corporal, doing his CT & OT to Log without much grief. Did you  CT from the RMR, Geo?

Wow, thanks for passing along that info, Hatchet. And yeah, I meant CFRC, whoops. My plt cmd is on the ball, so I hopefully won't get too much grief. My friend is OT & CTing to LOG, and he's not had any trouble from the regiment, I don't expect any either. Thanks for the advice, and once I get...

Well, I put in my memo last week. My platoon LT will prolly direct me to the CRTC (from what I've been reading) or get the BOR to have my start filling out the paperwork. I really don't want to drag this out any longer than it has to. I'd like to just get going with it so that I can start my...

I'm absolutely serious about this (and I could probably use the extra PT to boot, I feel off a bit since my injury heh). I just really don't want to spend a year in a holding platoon, as someone from my regiment did a few years back when he did a straight transfer. I don't know, maybe the...

Well, I did read this : http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/17678.0.html Not sure if that's the topic you're talking about, but it's filled with some pretty bad stories of people waiting years for things to advance. It kind of seemed to coincide with what I was told by people who are at my...

I joined the CF very recently, swore in a year and a few days ago to the PRes and started going to my unit in February. Nothing really was important, though, until I started on my courses in May. I did my BMQ through DP1 this summer, finishing in early August. Had it not been for a couple of...