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  1. garb811

    Advice on Career Options

    Army.ca, Milnet.ca, Navy.ca and Air-Force.ca are all the same info as they are all the same site on the back-end.
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    "Russian Church mulls stop to practice of blessing nukes"

    And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this Thy hand grenade that, with it, Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits in Thy mercy." And the Lord did grin, and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans and...
  3. garb811

    Social Media Policy question

    Why didn’t you just ask your dad instead?  You could show him your concerns and, even he has been out for awhile, he will have pretty good insight as to what is fine and what isn’t...
  4. garb811

    Federal IT systems at risk of 'critical failure,' Trudeau warned in memo

    Exactly, just like the update/upgrade of our email system, a private company ensures success, right? This article is from 2018...so, 8 years and not even counting anymore. I don't remember the last time I heard anything about this, I'm guessing it was just left to fade away into the ether. On...
  5. garb811

    Chief Military Judge Col Mario Dutil Charged

    The fix for a Duti-like issue already exists. The next time a "military" judge is charged with a non-CSD specific offence, MP can simply exercise our authority as Peace Officers and lay the complaint downtown. That way there will be no worries about the wagons being circled and esoteric...
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    Why everybody is suddenly allergic to everything

    Sometimes, allergies appear out of the blue... Case in point, one of my kids had a severe anaphylactic reaction at school earlier this year. He texted me right after lunch saying he wasn't feeling well and was in the bathroom as it had started with sudden onset diarrhea.  As I texted back and...
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    MATA and PATA ( Parental Leave )

    A Commanding Officer has the ability to defer the start date of parental leave if there are imperative military requirements.  In accordance with the Leave Policy Manual, the definition of imperative military requirements includes attending a career course, which BMOQ is.  So, no, you won't be...
  8. garb811

    8 Jan 2020: UKR Airliner shot down in Tehran

    Split the ADA tangent off into the All Things Air Defence/AA (merged) thread. Milnet.ca Staff
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    Military acceptance rates

    Don't get fixated on acceptance rates when deciding whether or not to submit your application. Even for occupations that accept only a small number of applicants per year, the best people still make it through. Just do your research for the occupation(s) you want to apply for, take the courses...
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    8 Jan 2020: UKR Airliner shot down in Tehran

    Discussion related to how to deal with Iran split off to the Iran Super Thread.  Also re-named the thread to reflect it was a shoot down and not a crash. Milnet.ca Staff
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    Neil Peart dead at 67

    This loss of a Canadian musical icon. I was privileged to see them live a few times over the course of my life, I always wished I had taken the time to see them one more time before they retired. Rush drummer Neil Peart dead at 67 More at link.
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    U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices

    Ah, sorry, wasn't tracking you were meaning on issued devices...
  13. garb811

    U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices

    Have you ever given any thought as to what SM apps it is your troops are currently using? Guarantee you more than a few are on TikTok and none of them are on Facebook and Twitter.
  14. garb811

    Warfare in the Digital Age - Not just a deployed problem

    New article out in the New York Times about what companies are able to do with the data provided by having location sharing turned on for apps on your smartphone...  First article in what is a multi-part series over the next few days. Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
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    FY2020/2021 RegF Infantry NCM Recruitment

    There is a difference between a "freeze" on recruiting for a certain MOSID, which implies there are positions going unfilled for some reason, as opposed to Recruiting having met the Strategic Intake Plan for the MOISID which means there are no positions left to fill for this fiscal year... Is...
  16. garb811

    US Tests Intermediate Range Missile

    Where are the US planning to base and launch these from if it is such a vital national interest to develop and deploy them to counter China? Guam, Northern Marianas are probably the only places that the US wouldn't need to get an ally to allow them to be in striking distance. For Russia, they...
  17. garb811

    Medical release - leave Cash Out

    Cashing out leave isn't a right, it has to be for operational reasons.  You're going to get ordered to take the leave as part of your release date/last day of work calculation if you haven't taken it on your own by then.
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    Arrest During Formation Ruled Illegal

    You can't drop this one only in the lap of the Commander. The arrests were conducted by NCIS agents, who should have known better than to participate in something like this, and his Sgt Maj was the one who gave the "order" for the arrests to be executed. Video shows 16 US Marines being arrested...
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    CAN FORCE ONE grounded in hangar accident

    And for those who may have missed the discussion, the the Challenger fleet is already in trouble, not that the Challenger is fully interchangeable with Polaris in any case... Challenger - needed to comply with the new ADS-B system
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    Depart with Dignity

    Close, 2003, just after the first iteration of the DWD came out. 16 years of formally trying and we still can't get it right for the member.
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