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This sounds like a lot of fun... I get to sit around, and I have to remember very specific things, and if I don't remember the things it's not good. That sounds pretty cool. Also, do not feel bad about singing songs on the bridge, because one time on fire picket I was doing the intro to James...

Well, I guess you take the good with the bad. I already sign the contract, no use mope about it now. I think everything will be okay with my fiancé, she's a keeper... if I am though, that's a different question (just a joke, or I hope anyways) I hope I can be redeemed from being in PRes...

I mean, I wouldn't call that "basic" knowledge, I think I know what it does generally... Ask new infantry recruits what they do on the day-to-day (not fighting), they probably won't know... NWO is a workhorse trade and has many different things they can do, so I assume it's difficult to explain...

I'm an NWO, but I used to be an infanteer with my bmoq mod 1 plar'd, so I really don't know anything about navy in general. My dad joined in 2003 and then he went subs, which supposedly sail a lot, or used to sail, anyways. He was a stoker, so he has harder physical work than what I'm going to...

Hey there, I just have a question about naval deployments. As an NWO, how many deployments do you get a year? My dad was a stoker and joined in 2003, so he was not home very often. Is it still like that? Will I be home less than half a year, generally? As you climb in rank, do you get less or...

There was actually a civvy OR person at my unit. I don't know if they're supposed to do that, but it happens.

It does. And then you get those people try to write a memorandum for BMQ and not know what a margin is. And they write "U" instead of "you." True story.

In my opinion, I think the cadets should have some more professionalism. All we'd seem to do in cadets is drill, and learn the same five lessons over and over on how to tell time (I had to tell people how to read a clock for 40 f-ing minutes, what a waste of time!) I think it should be more...

I was in the sea cadets for five years, I went every week, and I went sailing one time. In five years. In a windstorm so I was only out for about 30 mins. New schooling doctrines has removed most mentions of the military, let alone Canadian military. I've had multiple teachers that have said...

This and the idea of the 100k citizen militia or whatever, the one with one week a year, is ludicrous... we can't teach PRes properly now, we can't equip them, etc. And everyone's big idea is to get less professional troops. It's basic logic that the more drafting or recruiting you do...

I know, and it's good that your platoon is having a good time, but it still dwindles leadership, it removes time on course where you should be learning stuff instead of getting in trouble, and worst of all, if by whatever reason, they get to Sgt or 2LT because there's a staff shortage, it's no...

@FJAG You need a grade 10, medical, and a FORCE test. The CFAT has been dropped. The problem is that now you get people who would have failed the CFAT for cook, infantry, and other low scoring trades. To be blunt, these people are stupid, and it's no fun having people who can't read try to...

I was thinking about this too, and in a perfect world, where everyone were competent, this would work great. In the reserves, you'd get a whole lot of people getting sent to Club ED for no reason. They should bring back the CFAT. Now the only bar of entry is a grade 10. I know people who...

Well in New Brunswick, there's a standardized test in grade 10 for international scoring, and that's it... I've had multiple classes where we had tests on things that are factually incorrect, like how nuclear fission creates CO2...

The lowering of standards shows a failure of the school system; everyone craps on Reagan for firing waves of people but in my personal opinion, education systems, not just in Canada, are being sabotaged by people who can't seem to do their jobs. In New Brunswick, there are people who learn at...

This is what school should be; I mean, it should be an objective of schooling, anyways. Why are they scared? It's because they're not educated on it. I'll tell you, if my or your teacher told you guys to promote autonomy, self-expression, and all those other things, people would be more willing...

If we give more autonomy to children to think for themselves, and stop treating them like babies, I.E. no more "mustard vs ketchup" debates, and try to promote critical thinking skills, maybe we'd see less bigotry, not only in the CAF, but everywhere Remember when people treated sexual...

That might be for various reasons, not necessarily that they're more dangerous; it could be because handguns are more popular, because they're cheaper, or of various causal factors

I find Luty's idea of gun control fascinating. He explains that there is no point to gun control because people can make their own guns. The famous "Luty Gun" and the DIY series of weapons, publicly available online, show how to make automatic submachine guns that require almost no knowledge of...

Someone should tell this to the recruiting center