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That works in a world where everyone starts fresh and gets promoted just as they are ready to take the next step. The reality is much messier. Let's take remusters for example, if a Sgt remusters and becomes a Cpl does he lose all his leadership abilities? Of course he doesn't, he may have to...

People forget it is a real management theory based on real research.

I think having an SL profile is important because we are a bilingual country and the CAF has to serve that country. That said, I think the way we do SL scoring is junk. For one, we always require the Verbal score to be the highest when reading and writing are as important if not more so. If...

This was my complaint as well. Here I am shortening words that have no business being shortened to get one more point in but I need to seek out their name and rank in full rather than use their pronoun? I don't have room for that. People who have done national boards feel free to chime in here...

As soon as we started accepting people wiithout ensuring they were in good shape first, we guaranteed an increase in injuries during the initial courses. It is so obvious I'm wouldn't be surprised if they completely missed or ignored it. The fact is that unlike 50 years ago, the average Canadian...

So why don't we just concede the Arctic to Russia? Does anyone think bad actors like China or Russia aren't going to leverage this for their own interests? Do I think Russia is likely to invade the NWT? No but that does not mean we can ignore it. We also don't have the resources to actually...

So it must be the members fault? I don't file unless I have all the documents, I never just hope it's in my file. I cross every t and dot every i yet it still takes more than a year. The one claim I had that required more information from me was essentially because I couldn't get the Doc and VAC...

I'm not looking forward to this. I have 24 years in and I don't want to be told a few years from now, we will take away your rank and you can give us a few more years as a Cpl RMS clerk. The first sign I see of any thing lime that and I stop pretending it doesn't hurt to work. I imagine a lot of...

I disagree somewhat. You should always be polite, that goes without saying (or should anyway), but they get to deal with my frustration because it's part of their job. If something VAC has done has fucked up your life, tell them about it. These things are recorded and reported on. We aren't...

May 19? I'm still waiting on October 18.

This is where I began to suspect this person may have some sort of agenda. I have never heard anyone say something like this unless they were trying to cause a scene for one reason or another. And it isn't like this was some stodgy old boy with a mustache and a monacle, this was another woman...

It took 5 weeks after I waited 6 weeks for the paperwork to get to me. So about 11 weeks total which seems to be a pretty standard wait time.

I like my beard, all 0.25 cms of it but they need to be policed. I saw a Capt, with a scraggly beard, long boarding through the base the other day and my first thought was we were being invaded by hipsters. For 90% of the terrible beards I see, 5 minutes of grooming twice a week would make all...

Not to mention she left Provincial politics under a cloud of scandal, as is traditional in BC. She was supposed to be the softer version of Gordon Campbell, who did wonders for BC no matter what left wing types will tell you but was easy to hate. The CPC need to find the candidates least likely...

I have seen a couple who pulled pin because of the Education benefits. So far mostly guys at the end of their career leaving a few years early.

Said Snr NCO would be picking his teeth up off the ground if he had said that to me. What the fuck is wrong with people? Trust me, everyone would be better off if I didn't have a special needs child, not the least of whom would be my son, but it's not like we were given the choice. Luckily, I...

Ah, I clearly misunderstood. As far as I am concerned, if you do your 6 or 12 years full time service, I don't think being a reservist should hurt you at all. In fact, having regular force guys transfer to the reserves for college, is only going to help the reserves both in numbers and...

I got to disagree with this one. There is no way a reservist showing up 1 or 2 days a month deserves the same amount as a full time regular force person with all that entails. I have no issue with reservists who accrue 6 years full time service receiving it. There is a reason the Reg force...

They are sitting the boards for next year right now. The CM brief should drop in the next couple of weeks as well. That will have your numbers on it. But don't take those numbers as gospel, last year they cut the numbers for some trades in half and then raised them again towards the end of the year.

They have made it harder in the last 4 years. Wait times have consistently increased since the Liberals came to power. Most if us don't need counselling and for those that do, 6 month would be great but what about the other 12 months they are waiting. I'm not hopeful they will help any better...