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It's funny that I actually found this thread while 'killing time' waiting for the meeting here at UVic.  I am not one prone to showing up for such activities, but when I read the article in the Martlet last Thursday I was outraged.  I couldn't get over how a group of students were calling...

Great post QV! As someone just coming into the branch it's important for me to hear what it is like, and the problems that people are facing especially as it pertains to keeping people happy with their careers.  I've talked to a number of MP's who never even see their officers unless it's...

I don't think that I'm fooling myself as to the challenges that face the branch in the future wrt attrition, I just don't see the point in trying to devise a way to keep people who don't want to be here.  A better solution would be to answer the question "why do they want to leave", and to see...

I'm new to the branch (as in not even trained yet), but I do have 10 1/2 years in the CF, and I've found the idea of loosing a significant number of people in the trade an interesting one.  My first trade in the CF (NESOP) was one that typically was considered a "red" trade and was often...

You'd be surprised how little math NESOP's use.  I used to be one, and I can't think of any time when we used math.  There was a bit back when we actually calculated balistics, but we don't do that any more.  I agree that on the EW side if the NESOP's were actually analyzing the signals there...

To actually answer MML's question.... My SEM (Subsidized Education Manager) in Borden told me that they are looking at moving ALL officer basic training to Borden in the near future.  In military terms "near future" could mean as early as Sept to never.  For what it's worth, whether you do...

You have a good point GAP, but where would you put this "Purple Trade" grouping.  I would suggest that it would likely be on Milnet (since milnet is more general thereby being more inclusive to purple trades) and we're thusly back to MP 00161's point.  As a navy MPO (albeit untrained as of...

Along with wearing Body Glide you need to wear a decent Coolmax shirt.  People wearing cotton are more pronte to having the material stick to their bodies and increasing friction.  That said, I'm running the Vancouver Marathon this weekend and even with Body Glide my nipples are likely going...

Do you have something to fear with your security clearences.....??  just kidding.  If the recruiter says that your enhanced reliability check is finished, I don't think that they are lying to you.  Depending on the trade you are going in to, you may require a higher security clearence...

Great video Tomahawk6, very touching.  They must have had the crew at psyops working overtime on that one...... :) Truely, it is excellent and should receive a wider dist. 

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And up it goes again.  Victoria is back to 122.9  Hello summer.  Remember, BC doesn't only stand for British Columbia.  It also means Bring Cash. 

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The only advise I would offer is to go and have fun.  Well, as much fun as you can on an IAP.... Your first 4 weeks will be the whole indoctrination stuff all over again to get the new people into a military frame of mind so expect lots of death by powerpoint, and not much free time.  The...

Most of us (UTP's) put up our new cap badges instead of the cornflake.  There was some flack at St.Jean two summers ago where they wanted the UTP's to wear the cornflake, but this seemed to have melted away by last summer.  If you go with your new trade badge, the worst thing that can happen...

I'm a UTP, and am still going through school now (I'll finish next year).  To be honest, the training isn't all that bad it was the school I had to get used to.  The training environment is familiar whereas school for me was a place where I was surrounded by my new peers which consisted of...

With all due respect to your experience Wesley, I suppose my fantasy bubble comes from having actually been to St.Jean for training recently.  If a soldier carrying a multi-tool is what counts for drawing attention to yourself these days......well, I don't even know what to say about that. 

For some reason people are writing stuff that could give you hope.  Let me be more blunt based on my experience.  You will not be given a training day off to fly out of the province to attend your girlfriends graduation.  Not whether you're on IAP, BOTP, or BMQ.  People who are suggesting...

The sched they post online is a general framework of what will be taught and take place, not necessarily when it will take place.  Just go in thinking that you will have no time at all to yourself while in St.Jean, and then you will be thankfull for any time you do have off.  Always remember...

While my BMQ was 10 years ago, my IAP and BOTP courses (both at St. Jean) have occured through the past two summers.  Maybe this is a case or "to each their own", but I used my knife on a regular basis while in the field.   As for the not a soldier/sailor yet..... train as you fight, fight as...