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Quiet professionalism is the way to go for so many reasons. And in Canada politics is a lot different than in the states.

My words of advice, it's your life. Don't do something you don't want to do to, to please your parents. You might lose interest and be worse off... Again it's your life so use my advice or don't. Secondly: Of the three officers whose degrees I'm aware of, one had a business degree, one had an...

http://kitshop.ppcli.com/Kitshoptest1/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=8&zenid=0238e0ec028a990f8390ddc80b6d03eb Not so much "kit", but I remember a few years back they mentioned they were going to offer a book for the 100 year anniversary. From my understanding it was going to be a coffee table...

A very hard truth to accept I stand corrected and yep much wiser than I.

Bingo! Which is why I'm so surprised leadership is last on the list... E.R. suggests the system will take care of that. But I think the only way the system can take care of that is if the leadership takes care of the system. How do we do make sure we go round and round the circle in a...

Will it take more than one company to fix this? Yes. Is it a start, yes. Is it the right place too start, I don't know. You can still do a lot of training that costs nothing. In Edmonton we had the ability to practice nav, fibua, sat range maybe to practice a call for fire, c-can village...

I agree, thus the competition. And the need for no more check in the box training I 100% agree everyone should strive to complete all these tasks and have good fitness levels. But this is not currently happening within these battalions (ok, the Battalion I was with). So someone has to be the...

Hmm for me it's not so much the Airborne capability capability that I'm worried about. I just used it as we already have them within our light infantry battalions. But I can't foresee us using them. Air mobile troops might be a little more relevant. What my concern is: Is that we'll forget...

"The administration and its ideological radical feminist soul mates are willing to accept less effectiveness at the point of the spear in order to put women into every last military occupational specialty.”----------Asinine! ‘Why is it that high?’” Gen. Dempsey said.......... Is that...

Don't sweat it yet, you're ahead of me and I applied before you with 3 years previous experience and I'm behind you... Just stay in touch with them, they should let you know if there's a problem.

I'm not aware of the costs associated with relocating. By the sounds of it, it's probably quite significant. It would be interesting to see who would fair better than the other in a competition of some sort. The permanent para coy or the rotating para coy. However I don't agree with investing...

No not all good leadership would want too join. I only generalized where maybe I shouldn't have. In my experience a lot of good leadership is looking to better themselves both professionally and personally. So if a "shock" infantry unit were created it may attract a large portion of these men...

Instead of rotating our jump company throughout the battalion why not set up a permanent jump company. I know our para capability is just in maintenance phase, but there's no reason to not keep training "paras". However not all of the people who qualify are really a para capable person. They...

I find the two often over lap. True it's not always. As for aiming to pass the test (minimum) that's not a bad thing. But when our tests get so easy to pass... It might hurt the organization. In reality the only thing I think that could bring back some of the old is a larger war... We have...

I have seen the fitness standards compromise an attack on ex Maple Guardian. I have seen multiple soldiers fall out of company attacks and platoon attacks on desert ram. I have had too personally leave a medic close to 400m behind on a live fire night platoon attack. All of the people involved...

I completely agree, especially with your last sentence. But I'm not quite sure the CF wants too instill a fitness culture... From what I've heard the FORCE test is a step in the wrong direction. I only thought it would hurt recruiting numbers because why else would they have changed it. Or is my...

Also I think the excuse of "But I won't have enough time to do my work" seems legit at first glance. But I bet a bunch a fit mechanics get more done in the day than obese mechanics. You'll feel better and be able to maintain a higher work capacity.

I couldn't agree more I won't touch on some points as a lot have been brought up already. But I think we could solve a lot of our problems by installing a fitness test at the recruiting center. And if someone can't meet the standards set show them the door or just defer them until they reach...

If you finished your contract they won't stop you. You will have done your time. But seeing as you have doubts about it... I wouldn't recommend it. The consequences of accepting a job for 5 years that you don't want to do will outweigh turning one down. In your case at the moment it's a...

Bring 3vp back to Victoria then no one would leave by choice.