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  1. Staff Weenie

    Medical release vs retention?

    A Period of Retention (PoR) is only possible if you meet several conditions. First off, you must be employable within your Medical Employment Limitations (MEL). Typically, if you can work a standard 40 hour week in an office setting without breaching your MELs it opens the door to consider a...
  2. Staff Weenie

    Hospital ship for Canada

    So, essentially the same capacity as the plywood R3MMU in Kandahar. Only useful if you're not expecting more than a handful of casualties at any given time.
  3. Staff Weenie

    medical history

    It seems as if you are minimizing a very serious issue. None of what you are saying addresses the fact that you clearly indicated you were found NCR for an offence, and that you were 'liberated by the RBMD' after three years. As I mentioned earlier, NCR is very rarely successful as a defence...
  4. Staff Weenie

    A Hunting Thread- A Swerve from The Global Warming Thread

    I've gone out twice for a deer hunt, and never shot anything - even though one walked right in front of me. It just wasn't really my cup of tea. However, I've had no trouble with fishing for barracuda and marlin in Jamaica. Maybe I have a subconscious hierarchy, and I see mammals as above fish...
  5. Staff Weenie

    PRes - Promotion to Maj without AOC qual

    Are enough course serials offered each year to ensure this is a viable COA? For example, we don't use JCSP for HS Res, as there are only about two positions a year allocated to us. If it were a hard requirement, succession would grind to a halt.
  6. Staff Weenie

    PRes - Promotion to Maj without AOC qual

    If AOC is the only thing missing for substantive promotion, would an Acting While So Employed, or Acting/Lacking work to put you into the vacant Maj position? I believe AWSE can carry on indefinitely as long as you're in the Maj position, but A/L buys you two years to get the course done or...
  7. Staff Weenie

    medical history

    While there are a few on this site who know whether you are medically eligible or not, they cannot and will not provide definitive direction. It would be up to a Medical Officer to review your file. That said - you mentioned being found NCR in a trial - this is very serious issue. Here's a...
  8. Staff Weenie

    Contigency Cost Move Vs. Contigency Status

    A posting to the TC with a cost move may be a possibility. Our tipping point for postings usually occurs once a member starts a second TCat, they cannot be employed ~40 hours per week in a safe capacity, and the prognosis for return to full duties within the next six months is poor. Based upon...
  9. Staff Weenie

    Favorite Issued Kit

    The waffle scarf!! One of my absolute favourites! Multi-functional and warm.
  10. Staff Weenie

    Queen's Platinum Jubilee

    Sidetrack - I can say with absolute certainty that there were casualties on KAF from the rockets, though only a few were Canadian (one was VSI). I carried the body of one who was killed, a civilian contractor, out of an ambulance. I saw a number of others who were wounded by rockets go though...
  11. Staff Weenie

    DOTP

    I'm not sure where you live, but there a Reserve Field Ambulance in Ottawa that is always looking for people.
  12. Staff Weenie

    New CADPAT...what's causing the availability delay?

    I have just about zero confidence that I will see this gear before I retire. I've been in for 30 years, and I still have a mix of the old OD for winter kit, and two different types of CADPAT - none of it the latest version.
  13. Staff Weenie

    New Dress Regs 🤣

    Quiet man, somebody might be listening for good ideas!
  14. Staff Weenie

    Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, dead at 91

    I realize he was quite elderly and ill, but did anyone else wonder if he was eliminated to prevent some sort of anti-Putin rallying point?
  15. Staff Weenie

    Return of NDI 75: Veteran Service Card [Merged]

    D&B - PM me with your details, I will track down what has happened and ensure you get a card.
  16. Staff Weenie

    Return of NDI 75: Veteran Service Card [Merged]

    VAC's hasty estimate at the start of the project was that there could be up to 400,000 living veterans in Canada that would be eligible under the changed criteria. That's a lot of cards to cycle every 5 years.
  17. Staff Weenie

    Return of NDI 75: Veteran Service Card [Merged]

    The Veteran's Service Card was never intended to serve as an official piece of government issued photo ID. It even says this on the application website. In order to do so, it would need to meet a number of additional criteria such as having an expiry date, higher quality photos, and a much more...
  18. Staff Weenie

    What is the pension like for medical releases?

    Make sure you link in to your supporting Transition Centre to find out the range of benefits and services you may be eligible for. Without knowing the nature of your injury (don't post your medical info here - we have no right to know it), does it impact your ability to do yardwork, shovel snow...
  19. Staff Weenie

    Medics requiring to maintain a license

    The problem, is that in order to pay GDMO and Specialists enough to remain in the CAF, we have to give them very high rank as fast as possible. Even then, and with all benefits factored in, it's barely enough to keep them in. I've seen numerous clinicians at LCol/Col rank who have only the most...
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