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The FORCE test is valid for 365 days and has nothing to do with the fiscal year.  In this case, you can't "owe" a FORCE test and do it later in the year, prior to the next fiscal year. Essentially anybody who thinks they might be boarded, needs to do the test NLT August.  Editted to change...

Even Wiccan is recognized!

Three words: 1.  Military 2.  Industrial 3.  Complex

If your friends are actually friends they will give you grief, followed by support once you show them you are serious.  If they don't give you support, tell them to STFU, move on and find some real friends. For you Mom, tread lightly... Go get a bottle of whiskey and a cigar.  Take a swig and a...

When using an extreme bright green against a recently and freshly painted white door and under Hollywood lights, it is ineffective.

Opting out is a slippery slope in my mind, at any rank.  You had better be producing, otherwise expect crap work, followed by crap postings, followed by potential career review.  It's not written anywhere, but read between to the lines.  There is no way that persons will be able to slack off...

He is talking about the yearly promotion boards, not the PER itself.  (At least in the Arty) they use what is called a Scoring Criteria (SCRIT) at the board.  The criteria such as jobs performed, how many MOIs,  education, language profile etc, and their weights, should be made available to...

It is decided by the the level above the COs, with the CO's input.  This will change once a person gets to the joint level, where all elements would have to come together.  The metrics are PERs, with a hint of gut feeling (see my definition in my signature block). I don't think it is being at...

So sad, but true.  :( Sugar coating, kissing ass and the "I'll scratch your back, if..." were never qualities I have seen as valuable to the CAF, in Os or NCMs. I guess I am just naive and don't get the "big picture".  :dunno:

The RMC type was the OP's words, and I added the young part, which is an easy assumption.  I would totally agree that it doesn't matter where a person comes from, but age certainly does matter.  Holding a mid thirties Capt back to let through some mid twenties Capts that have a shot at the top...

Yes, it is quite wrong in my opinion.  Seems that the new approach is to look forward to the scoring criteria (SCRIT) which is used at the promotion boards to see if a person will stack up.  The PER process and the SCRIT seem to have merged, effectively taking away and discreteness of the two...

You just answered the question.  You will be held back up, until those average RMC types can pass you. Almost seems that the succession planning approach to this is throw enough crap er I mean young soldiers at the top and some of them are bound to stick. Pers like Opcougar, as good as they...

Not sure about your unit, but everyone that I am aware of, the score is not set by the supervisor.  The score isn't even necessarily how you performed.  It is how you relate to your peers.  Did you stay still while your unit just took in some superstars?  Is your Corps overloaded with Capts, a...

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I don't see where I said we needed a bunch of dumb fat slugs.  I merely stated that we need balance.  There are far too many people (BTW one is too many), educating and PTing themselves on an over abundance of Army time, therefore putting themselves before everyone and everything else, including...

The CAF have had females in the regular force Artillery since at least the mid 80s (the extent of my recollection).  Perhaps OS might be able to nail down a date. Females are very employable in the FA.  Lugging ammo and HMGs are only a couple tiny facets of what is expected of FA soldiers.  I...

This thread could be a U course! Lots of words.  Holy Frack!!!

That is good.  The original article's title is misleading "armoured vehicle" and the first sentence "armoured chariot", eventhough later it states "The ULCV would provide a base level of protection through high-mobility to avoid enemy contact and soldier personal protection equipment", which...

The test is fine.  Everyone has memory lapse or conveniently forgets that this is just a bar.  Albeit a low bar, it doesn't really matter.  For those that suggest Cooper's tests or the like, that is fine if a CO wants to have a "competition", but not for a standard.  The FORCE was designed to...

BMQ is probably the best opportuntiy you'll ever have to go cold turkey.  You'll be plenty busy, breaks should be few a far between (at least they should be), and you'll be exercising and eating right; all very effective measures for getting off the butts. Remember, nicotine replacements don't...