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It‘s not that easy nowadays. Ten plus years ago, there would have been a direct trade equivalency. As a Mar Eng Tech in ‘95, I handed my fee over and wrote the millwright exam. As a post tour CPO2 in 2011, I handed over my fee to the BC Boiler Safety Branch and el-presto, I was a 2nd Class...

I read you on innocuous items being catalogued as a NSN. Immediately prior to Annapolis’ disposal around the tail end of 2000, I was involved in an ITAR survey on MSE systems. A few things had crept on to the list including the boiler smoke mirrors and anodes on the glands condenser below the...

The two ex regiment guys in the podcast above say as much.

Mine had artificer spelt ‘articifer’. No one ever did notice 😀.

Absolutely! In my current job, a few years back I sourced a few boiler combustion control system I/O cards that had been out of production for years on eBay. The pics of same were invaluable in determining it was the right part.

Around 2010, PRO sourced a main stop valve from a scrapyard in Phoenix.

Spraying hot lead from the door mounted mini gun?!! Agreed with Furniture on wondering how this got by the fun police.

Dang beer goggles. Curses!

The ones under Hillier/Harper weren't bad. The 'Decade of Darkness' ones prior to that really did suck.

That raises a good question as to whether the QL5 MarTech course or whatever it’s referred to now is enough of a foundation piece for the machinist specialist course. At one point, the entry requirement was, IIRC, 85% on the QL5 fitting/machine shop phase. So the guys ( not sure if a gal has...

No March Madness from my end. Sorry 😜

I‘ve heard the same. Those having released just five years ago wouldn’t recognize the trade. Out west there Is an astonishingly small number of legacy guys left. My old CERA (and by old I mean a paltry five years older than me 😀) is convinced that the rot set in when machinery was placed...

There’s argument to be had that the ‘stoker mafia’ disappeared when the last fire was pulled on a Y-100 plant and the MSE dept ceased being more than a third of the crew, and I don’t think the mafia ever made it past the water front. If a name is mentioned as to who put in the last kick to the...

There’s talk of certain aspects of amalgamation being rolled back, but the train has been rolling down the single set of rails for so long that the remaining brain trust is flummoxed as to a COA.

They are. From the horror stories I’m hearing from peers who are still serving, so is technical aptitude.

We had our ERA’s party at the Esquimalt C&POs last Friday. The number of serving members who show up in uniform keeps dropping as more and more Martechs have no relation to prior training standards, certification boards etc or ever being referred to as an artificer. Now, i’m not one for...

Thanks for the clarification.

ABS? Absolute best scenario?

Don't mention the war.......