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Thanks for the update. Cheers, Ralph.

Hey Jug - good to see you back. Maybe call your CFRC and get the number of the medical guys who did your physical and ask them? They wouldn‘t be able to tell you what the doctors at Borden would say, but they would have some idea of how easily medical restrictions are lifted. Remember, you‘re...

Thanks for the update. My Leading Seaman file manager is sick of the sound of me... Until next week, Ralph.

As bad as you can imagine. They were only hiring artillery, so I added my name to that list just to get looked at, and the officer at Borden, for whatever reason, didn‘t send the final list out to the recruiting offices until AFTER the course had started. So I had to wait from Dec. 6 until Jan...

HA HA HA!!! I saw that there were two more messages to this thread and I had to compose myself before I opened it up. Nothing from my end, either. At least my wife was somewhat prepared for it, me having gone through this for the last board as well. I checked my emails back then - the board was...

Shows ya how much I know...I should make a perfect officer ;)

The recruiting website‘s been updated (since I was there last) - for those who didn‘t know, infantry and artillery now share Phase II (I think that‘s new, right?) and it still says you‘re in for 7 mos. of SLT. Infantry says "if required", but I can only guess that‘s if you‘re already bilingual...

The only question is when the new plan starts...hopefully soon. Nobody‘s been told any different than eight months at St. Jean for SLT yet, have you? Cheers, Ralph.

Anyone remember offhand how many weekends you get off during BOTP? I know the enlisted recruits are confined to barracks for the first few weeks - if I get in for the September course, will I get the Thanksgiving weekend off? Do they ever give you an extra half-day to get back? There are only so...

Well, I‘m hoping that‘s the case, (for my own sake), but I honestly don‘t know. My guess would be that the leftovers for earlier boards would be put at the top of the pile when they start, and thus would have first crack. I hope they don‘t want to make extra work for themselves, and so wouldn‘t...

No, not at all - there was a hiring freeze on everything except Artillery, so I added that to my list of one (Infantry) so I could be looked at for January. No idea how that went in the boardroom, but it didn‘t help (me, at least) that the officer in charge of finalizing everything didn‘t finish...

I‘m 99% sure that next week‘s board is just for the September course. You either get an offer, be told that Borden wants to keep your file open (that‘s where I‘m at, after the delightful artillery board finished their offers the week before the January ‘03 course started) or politely asked to...

Correct me if I‘m wrong, but I think his complaint is that the guy was wearing kit in civilian life. I don‘t think one is supposed to be wearing pieces of one‘s uniform to the mall. Stopping there on the way to Thursday night parade to get some Kiwi is one thing, but wearing your neato cadpat...

Keep bugging your file manager at the CFRC office. They‘ll send a "hastener", which is actually just an email, but the squeaky wheel does get greased - I waited a couple months, called, then called again two months later and it had been sitting there already sent from Ottawa for who knows how...

I was reading up on BOTP on the CFLRS site and it says the officer cadets go through another security check and more medical testing once course starts. So it‘s still possible to fail out after having passed the first round of tests and after I‘ve quit my job and moved across the country? What...

I‘m willing to accept a case of ham omelettes in lieu of real money. I don‘t need the dough, but wifey says we have to buy diapers. :crybaby: Cheers, Ralph

I had to smile when I saw Mike‘s comment about hackles being a disgrace - it was taken for granted by a lot of guys I ran into while serving with my old reserve unit (Lorne Scots in Ontario) - even better, they wear a primrose-coloured hackle on the balmoral, which fits in perfectly with the...

Aha. When in doubt, scroll to bottom of page. Cheers.

Question answered. Sweet. Thanks, Ralph.

I know it‘s been asked before, but does anyone have any idea how the pay levels (for officers)work? Looking at the current pay for a newbie 2LT, the monthly for the "C" level (which is what the documents say a DEO starts at) is $3077. That‘s more than a "B" level ($2861), which would lead me to...