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Where are you located Lame? Because if you are from the lower mainland I'll have to buy that recruiter a beer for trying to steer people my way. Could it have been a MCpl T talking to you? If you are from Vancouver area then picking armored recce (BCRs) is a great choice. While I have met many...

Ms Blatchford is the only journalist I would willingly talk to. She has a knack of bringing up military topics which concern me, but that I have no control over in order to fix. Recruiting is just one more thing she is tackling that weighs heavily on my mind. The lack of recruits is slowly...

So you worked for Street with MB (Now MC)? I was there in 2010. Long hours but I had a great time.

I've had this app for a while and find it quite usefull. Apparently a bunch of my platoon mates discovered it last night and are making it through it features. General thoughts right now can be resumed as: Awesome. We would like to have included the patrol report in the reports and returns...

FWIW I am in agreement with all four of you.

Of course the OP has to "question" this, my point is that he is doing just this, since he is asking us about it here. I wager he also asked other people. Everyone needs to question unclear orders/direction. Realistically we just can't throw up a red flag every time we don't agree with something...

Not to quibble, because I understand what you are saying, but it does show a lack of understanding of police work at large. Police/peace officers have discretion, which can be framed by direction from supervisors. An easy example of this would be a decision from the OC that from now on tickets...

It is inane to ask a troop, who is seeking advice before going to his chain regarding the issue, to just go and question his chain. AFAIAC he is doing the reasonable thing: seeking furhter information and clarification before going to his boss with a half baked idea.  Telling the OP that he has...

Right. So here is a dude who has been given an order that appears to come out of left field. He is doing something sensible: asking for advice. Now, I wish he had a better support network than army.ca, but here he is. He wants to have his ducks in a row before he rocks the boat and gets...

I never thought I would EVER say this: You can have my MkIIIs from my cold, dead, feet.

C. 2002-2003 it took me ~18 months from walking in the door to swearing in. Blatchford recently commented that it takes an average of something like 156 days to recruit a troops. Somehow I would not be surprised if the number of mistakes/problems were just about the same.

PM sent.

In the police world his avatar would be what we call a "clue".

Don't mind the peanut gallery. And again, let me get even more pedantic: What holster does he have? Can you find a picture of it online? What doesn't he like about it? What does he do "at the range"? In the past I have made many purchase decisions based on what others thought was cool or the...

Let me be a touch pedantic: Are you talking about the OPD duty belt general issue holsters for the P225? Or are you talking about the holster issued for some of the P226 issued to CPP? If you are looking for the duty holster, it is actually the low ride holster. If you are asking about the...

I used to think that it was crazy to pay ~$300 for a watch when I bought my 5.11 watch. Now my daily watch is a Marathon CASR... Luminox starts for less than a PS4, some decent looking ones for $350 and the nice ones are $600-900. So we are far from kidney selling here. Hell, most people...

How many people tuned in for the first mission to the moon? And that was before many people had easy access to TVs. Sure, long stretches of the trip would be boring, but I can imagine a weekly show based on the mission, with product placement, making at least some money.

Please take the time to add it to your list, or at least watch the documentary Dieppe uncovered, which was apparently based on the book. I am no expert, but the book appears well research and gives a compelling narrative which explains the decisions made. All of it is based on a hunch from the...

"One day in August" by David O'Keefe A new take on Dieppe that is fascinating.

Granted. I don't think either of us would have done all that well had we chosen general studies followed by a BA. While she did what amounts to woodworking in college, I did Civil eng tech. We found gainful employment easily and went from there. I am pretty sure this could be duplicated. Mind...