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A few guys on my BMQ course started doing this, and I just saw a MS reforming his beret this way last week, so it bears repeating... 1. Fill your bathroom/kitchen sink with warm/hot water 2. Put your beret in the water (after taking the badge off, of course) 3. Gently wring out the beret.  You...

Begin rant. Give me a friggen break here...  Some people may argue me on this, but as a father of two boys, I gotta say, if I ever caught my wife practising this crap, I'd loose my mind.  I'm a little more "old school" than that of other fathers my age.  I believe that your kid is in diapers...

Just did the FORCE evaluation today, and I asked about this, because I have a buddy going to St. jean fairly soon... FORCE evaluation will be implemented at BMQ sometime after 1 April 2014. CF EXPRES will be the fitness test until then. As for the FORCE evaluation, I found it similar to...

In all honesty, it can't HURT your chances...  But it may jade your outlook a little. The Reserves idea is a good plan, too.  It will allow you to do both at the same time, and you may like it and wish to transfer, or you may not want to carry on with one or the other, which will give you the...

Stay in school.  It never hurts to have multiple avenues in which your career can take you. Case in point:  I attended college, studying the Law Clerk program, and worked for 3 years or so as a law clerk, before making the jump (at 29) to Weapons Engineering Tech with the Navy.  Now, I am doing...

Yeah, yeah, Stacked... If everyone was a ping bos'n, who'd fix your gear?  ;D Rev

In the grand scheme of things, whether or not we believe you'd make the cut is irrelevant.  The question is, do you think you'd make the cut? Remember, there is a whole country to recruit from, and as awesome as one potential in, say, BC, may think they are, maybe someone in, let's say PEI, has...

*quickie rant* I agree... I am sick of my tax dollars being spent on politician's fancy houses and cars.  Sure, you can look professional, and have a nice house, but do you REALLY need $150,000 a year to do it?  I know lawyers who make less than a third of what politicians make, and they live...

Kind of related story: When I left for BMQ, my wife was ready to pop with our first-born.  As I didn't want to create ripples in my training, I informed my staff of the situation, but told them that we had prepared for it, and I didn't want to miss any training.  Unfortunately, I ended up...

Khaalid, Firstly, you should sit down with your parents, and discuss openly about why you would want to join the CF, and they can discuss their fears/wishes/etc. with you.  There are a good number of resources to bring to the table in this discussion.  The CF website (forces.ca) has some...

I have had the opportunity to go through BMQ and further courses with people of a broad variety of beliefs and orientations.  I will definetly echo the previous posters, and add this to it: I know of 3 members who were open about their orientation at BMQ. 2 graduated, and one VRed for separate...

*quick off topic* I find, when dealing with certain people of religious beliefs, that the ones who are able to incorporate their beliefs into the flow of their daily life and the normal happenstance of life around them, are the true followers of their beliefs. I myself am not baptized into any...

I notice that I am quoted in this thread, and I just wanted to clarify something.  The facts I have been given, and that I am providing are in relation to those who enlisted prior to 1 Sept 2012, and were in training as of 1 Feb 2013.  I am not sure how the people coming out of BMQ who enlisted...

I have seen some members walking around with a new rain jacket, and have heard some hype about it.  I was wondering if anyone who has obtained the new rain gear can tell me their opinions on it, and if it would be worth going down to stores to pick it up. I know that they have been issuing the...

Further news on this... New people have been arriving at CFNES, and if they fall into this category, they have been Attached Posted.  The ones who were here before (like me) have now been posted back to BTL at NDHQ, and then Attached Posted back to CFNES. As for the rumoured CANFORGEN, the...

My last week in Farnham (Week 12) ended on Easter weekend.  Depending on which week you'll be in at the time will dictate from the staff when you get released for the weekend. For us, we returned from the field on the Wednesday afternoon, went to the QM at HD4 to get our parade whites and for...

I've been drunk before, but not THIS drunk...    :facepalm:

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It would allow for some kind of equality, I'm sure.  But that sort of argument is a bit out of my lane.  I only know what I know. It will certainly make it easier to post people out of BMQ.  As for the members on qualification courses right now (like myself), it will definitely add more...

OK... my bad... lol