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From the Royal Canadian Medical Service Association.  LCol Savage was a Medical Officer serving in the Canadian Forces Health Services Group Headquarters.  --- It is with great regret that I would like to inform you of the passing of Lieutenant Colonel Erin Christine Savage. LCol Savage...

The Canadian Forces College maintains a document called the Strategic Topics Research List.  It is a list of topics requiring research by the CAF for use by Master's students, PhD students and academics. The document is sizable (70 odd pages) with lots of good questions.  Questions for...

To elaborate a little more on the post above.  The Commander Canadian Army has ordered that the Battle Fitness Test is part of Individual Skill Level Two (IS-2) for Fitness part of the Individual Battle Task Standards (IBTS).  For the Fitness IBTS, IS-1 is the FORCE and IS-2 is the Battle...

Good drills... Just remember this sounds like it is more than a Unit / single MO problem and your unit (OC / DCO / CO) might want to engage the CF H Svcs C CO to ensure that he has visibility on the sub-par systematic health care problems in his AOR.  MC

Have you filled a formal complaint / letter of concern with the Commanding Officer of the Canadian Forces Health Services Centre that supports you and your subordinates?  Rest assured we take written correspondence where allegations of sub-par care have occurred quite seriously and none of these...

I guess now I have top cover for not forwarding any updates to my Unit Registry of Disciplinary Proceedings to the JAG Branch by the 7th day of each month IAW QR&O 107.15.  Whew... one less pesky regulatory requirement thing to worry about as a CO!  MC

It is also in STANDING OPERATING PROCEDURES FOR LAND OPERATIONS (B-GL-334-001/FP-001) CH2 2009-07-01. (SOP 106.6 and 106.7) The publication mentioned by Dangerboy - B-GL-332-001/FP-001 Volume 1 Unit Standing Operating Procedures and Volume 2 Tactical Aide Memoire (1999-04-01) as been...

MWO (ret'd) Stacey A. Alcock, CD, RCMS  1964 - 2014. Stacey Allan Alcock - 49, of New Minas, passed away Friday, May 16, 2014, in Hants County, while doing one of the things he loved most, cycling. Born in Mankota, Saskatchewan, he was a son of Lloyd Alcock, Buck Lake, Alberta and the late...

You are correct, the RCMS is not granted battle honours.  That being said, we were given a Royal Banner from our Col-in-Chief for our service in Afghanistan this past October. ...

Do not ever forget, however, that officership is a social sport.  MC

You will be quartered at the Delta Hotel in Moncton while doing PCP. It (and your rations) will be paid for by the Crown and will cost you nothing. You will not be allowed to "live out" and your assigned quarters will be at the Delta.  Not sure why you would want to live out. The hotel...

There is also a plan in the works to decrease the backlog of Med Tech candidates as we move forward with the new QL3 Med Tech curriculum which is supposed to start in September.  I know a number of people are working on the plan so it has to be a serious option being considered. There is not...

Except that the RCA has both a D Arty and Regt Col.  It is my understanding that the RCA Regt Col deal with he heart and mind issues, Regt traditions, regimental senate, HCol's etc and D Arty is the adviser to the CA on technical arty and RCA personnel matters.  MC

You could always take a course or two from the MA in War Studies Programme or courses from the Military and Strategic Studies Programme or courses from the Department of Military Psychology and Leadership at RMC. Might be interesting and relevant to the profession of arms.  The United Nations...

Funny, that is not the advice I received from my JAG Officer(s) at the time when I issued a warrant on two different occasions.  Warrants were executed (in Canada, on a CFB) and subsequent prosecution took place without issue.  Both of these instances occurred since 2008. MC

Oh, I am not so sure about that.  All that you would require is a CO who is has reasonable grounds to believe that the phone has information on it that is in contradiction of some part of the NDA and that the information contained on the phone is required to afford evidence with respect to the...

As a follow up, I finally found the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS) publication I was looking for and just finished reading it. The publication is called Canadian Forces: Hard Choices, Soft Power.  It was written in 1999 by Dr. Joseph T. Jockel.  It is a retrospectively...

There is a backlog of Med Tech candidates waiting for QL3.  There are a number of people working with coming up with a training solution to put through more courses per year to get the backlog back to down to a more reasonable number. MC

You will be happy to know that the Res F Med A is now able to give you both Advil AND Tylenol if you need it  :)  Well... once they get the new protocols trained and signed off... MC

The MedA role of being in the rear and pushing Med Tech's forward is no longer a supported concept.  This was an employment concept in the past. You will not find that doctrinally / policy anywhere and the new Med A Scope of Practice / Protocols and Procedures Manual supports this move to have...