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MM, Maybe that's why Ontario in the middle votes the way they do, because they like to sit on the fence and not make decisions about which way to go on any issue.

Compared to Maritimers who love the military and inhale Testors model glue, cut down trees, and kill bear/moose/deer/baby seals?

Lee Enfields are what the CF Rangers use (for reasons already listed, among just being generally reliable and they were a free gift since they were just in storage).  I would rather have a LE than a C7 for shooting a Polar Bear running toward me, too. As for the arctic camo issue, I have seen...

I am not sure why you feel the need to disagree with everything, but I'm curious to see why you think so on this one. Because the odd course isn't offered in French which goes against the general trend?  Can you please post a list of basic-level courses that are not taught in both languages? I...

In general yes, but I am not there and don't know the exact dates. The CF must offer all courses in both languages, which may not always happen on the really rare courses because the staff just can't be generated, but all the common courses are guaranteed to have French content taught by French...

I think the stereotype is based on some truth of how some soldiers used to be in generations past. It used to be that the military was often a third choice type of job, as in you had lost all hope of any other employment and it was either the Army or nothing because you had dropped out of high...

To take a step back here, I would just like to write that I am very jealous of you. If a bucket list is what you want to do before you die, then I guess a ball-and-chain list would be things you wanted to do when you were young before you got bogged down with work and a family.  It's not that...

My first instinct is that I wouldn't want anyone in the Army who doesn't want to be there, I change that opinion when considering all of the undesirable jobs that most people don't want to do. The same way I wouldn't want a conscript fighting beside me, I also wouldn't want a guy who has...

Because being qualified at something at the Reserve level is not automatically equivalent to being qualified at the Reg Force level. I would argue that there are some things that one you learn it's learned and no more practice or learning isn't necessarily going to make you better at it, but...

Pusser, Technically you're right, because I have seen all sorts of my peers quit over the last decade without going to jail. Most of the penalties would be financial, in terms of having to pay for your education if you were either ROTP or RMC, but if you're a CEOTP or DEO it's a relatively...

There is an old wive's tale that some well-intended soldier came up with the idea of a spent casing deflector and sent the idea to Diemaco/Colt and they gave him a whopping $50 cheque for the idea.  Then they patented it and made millions. This could just be trench talk rumour mill, but it's funny.

Even if he somehow were still granted equivalence for BMQ and BMQ-L (obviously not DP1), I would argue to do it again anyway just to be a rockstar at it.  Where everyone else would be learning everything from scratch, you'd had a huge competitive advantage already knowing things like drill and...

Our standard C7 service rifle used to be a lot more biased toward right-handed firers than it is now.  Before, it was harder to a left-handed firer to do things like cock the weapon, release the magazine, etc. Those things have been remedied somewhat in the C7A2 mid-life update that made...

HST now in most places, grrrr.  Plus, $160/ year just to keep plates on the thing in NB.

Wow, when I first started reading the article I was thinking that soldiers in the field were banned from wearing their berets, but does "dress of the day" not include just walking to work in a garrison environment? It's one thing to be in actual combat wearing a maroon beret might betray your...

Is there even a Reserve Combat Engineer unit near you?  If the answer ends up being "no", then it's kind of a moot point and you're only going to get to be a Combat Engineer if you join the Regs (as brought up, if it's even open).

Being CB'd to Wainwright has happened to me both times I have been there (not just me personally, but the group I was with). In spring 06 as an Observer Controller Trainer for TF 3-06, all of the staff were CB'd by the CMTC CoC even though we weren't the training audience.  This pre-punishment...

Best reserve unit in the CF!  Hold your head high for your uncle's contribution to Windsor and Canadian history. There's a reason the focal point of downtown Windsor is called Dieppe Park.

Because for a lot of officer plans, nine years is the initial engagement the way three years is for a lot of NCM paths.

If there's one tip I can give you, it's to bring all sorts of time-filler because there's relatively little to do there on your off hours. Whether it's books, PSP, laptop, whatever...you will go stir crazy within a few weeks and during Ex MGs the Canex runs out of magazines pretty quickly. As...