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As someone who's been injured and re-injured with significant consequences, inform your staff of your situation, go to the MIR when you believe you may be hurt (as opposed to pushing yourself), and keep a can-do attitude without seriously jeopardizing yourself. First blush says you are not in...

I wish that this was more generally the case. Unfortunately, in the case of reserve officers, there is often no such period of training. You've got a degree and you're sworn in? You're a 2Lt. Plenty of commissioned officers show up on recruit courses without any substantial training. I've had...

...which we do, for musicians. http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/musi/ci-ic/index-eng.asp

It's a place for marking time, be it as a broken ex-cpl or a retiree cushioning their income. Why would I stay there beyond the short-term? To pursue my dream of becoming a photo radar operator? Long hours, less-than-awesome pay, and a variable schedule. No real prospects in the long term. Some...

No. If you're referring to meteorological technician, it is a regforce-only trade and you can not enter it part-time. http://www.forces.ca/en/job/meteorologicaltechnician-10 If you want to be a meteorologist, you will have to go to school to become one - nothing to do with the military. If you...

There is a difference between a backpacker in europe sewing a maple leaf flag on their gear, and fighting while wearing the national colours. You only get to do the latter while fighting on behalf of the national government.

Becoming?

Which could be a bad option, if there are any benefits, such as PSHCP, which the parent would want to exercise for their kid.

And next of kin remains the kid, and the only one to whom LTA is related.

I did, and enjoyed it: "Little Fuzzy". Been a few years and the memory's too fuzzy to contrast it -short story, as was much of the writer's stuff. Solid writer, some of it was along the lines of De Camp's. If you've ever read (and liked) "Lest Darkness Fall", "Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen" would...

Fuzzy Nation made a pretty good present for mom, which I carried out careful quality control for. It also makes a nice intro to H. Beam Piper's work, which Scalzi riffed it from.

Not familiar with the timex. Watchminder woke me up six days into an ex with six hours sleep.

Watchminder. A watch with a vibration alarm - wake up without waking up the guys next to you, and even if the guy on shift before you fell asleep at his post.

Preface: I neither support nor have any firsthand knowledge of what these guys are up to. My understanding is that this "organization" is hashing together international airfare and an address book for folks to hook up with the peshmerga. I doubt they even manage most of the former. These...

I've even worked in an OR with a typewriter. I feel pretty fricking old right now.

An organized assault and riot against foreigners could get out of control and is not an unreasonable target to be deterred against. A judge having discretion in sentencing of up to 10 years does not sound ridiculous to me, and not having a problem with it neither makes me a fascist nor a racist.

Could you confirm that there has been no change in the policy that very exceptional circumstances are required for a non-citizen to be accepted? Eg. a fully-trained F-18 pilot during a shortage of such? I'm confused as to why a NON-citizen would be receiving requests for "a whole lot of...

Since you already know the outcome, how about not wasting resources in the recruiting system? I appreciate that you're disappointed, but you're not going to receive some sort of special waiver that gets you past basic medical requirements.

Units on the move where comms on the move is impractical. HF rear-link might have great comms with Winnipeg, but fair at best with a forward group of LOSVs'138 manpack during a halt. Yes, they'll be doing a radio check, but I see nothing wrong with them jiggling the 3am relief operator's arm to...

If the battle school doesn't have the means to provide the minimum kit to safely and effectively train troops, it shouldn't be running the course. It sucks and screws over both the troops and the units, and it should be shoved in the face of every level above which had higher priorities. The...