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Went through the Mega in 2008.  No one that I know of brought a TV and/or an xbox.  I am almost positive it would be confiscated until course end.  People did have PSP's and DS's, but they were locked up until at least the weekend of your first weekend leave.  Cell phones were also locked up...

I concur with daftandbarmy.  Get a whole bunch of extracurricular/volunteer/life experience behind you. They have a lot of applicants with high grades, and lots of applicants with cadet experience.  They don't want people that can only maintain high marks when holed up in their room studying. ...

You answered 35 of 50 questions correctly for a total score of 70%. I got almost every physics question wrong.

Int O can be direct entry, if you have the right credentials for it.  Int op, you must have 3 years previous service.

Sounds reasonable to me.

One less skill for soldiers to master at boot camp: bayonet training Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling opted to discontinue bayonet training for Army recruits. After all, the last US bayonet charge was in 1951. But in the weeks since that decision, Hertling has had some pushback...

It was wrong for Ignatieff to whip his party to vote against killing the registry, but do you really think that Harper let the conservatives have a free vote on the issue?  The only party leader, on this issue at least, that can be admired (sadly) is Jack Layton for giving the appearance that...

The only military friends I have as a no-hook private, are cpl's and below.  If they get promoted (appointed) to M/Cpl I remove them.  I am somewhat old school in the belief that there is a line of familiarity that shouldn't be crossed between various ranks of NCM's.  But that being said...

Not today, but a few weeks ago.  It was supposed to be a pep talk (paraphrased). Everyone wants to be an infanteer.  408 squadron pilots, MPs, Service Battalion, Field Amb.  They all want to be infanteers.  They envy you.

The main problem I see with the venture, is the length of time especially for someone deployed you would have to watch their pet, approximately 7 months as it currently stands.  A lot of people would be very interested in the idea though.  A couple pets would probably be ok.  One other factor...

Was this the dumbest thing heard, or a response to a previous dumbest thing?  Ha, Ha.

Just to be the wet towel, you shouldn't be driving even after 1 beer.  You can still be charged for it even if you pass a breathalyzer.

Used both GPS, and map and compass as a seismic surveyor and in seismic exploration.  I trust both to a degree.  We found that we would lose sattelites between 2-4pm almost daily which made the job tedious when recording positions down to 5 millimetres (don't ask me why such accuracy was needed...

I have never been stopped once at the Edmonton Base either, I don't even think they have anyone inside the booths anymore.  Wainwright was hit and miss.  Most secure base I have been on so far was CFLRS in St. Jean.

I've set foot once in the Junior Ranks Mess in Edmonton, and that was for our malaria briefings before deploying.

My mom sent me some liquer filled chocolates for Christmas.  I was half expecting a bag full of chocolate mush, but thankfully it was winter time.

Found that out the hard way when I lost my wallet.  The old Alberta birth certificates you could carry in your wallet.  You weren't allowed to laminate them, but they came with a plastic sleeve.  I eventually got my wallet back more than 6 months later due to a good samaritan.  No money, but...

People actually read their contracts?  I was actually told when swearing in that I didn't have time to read it (due to how they booked my flights there and back, and a flight delay which was somehow my fault).  Just sign it, so we can get you back to the airport in time.

I could have almost brought myself to vote for Ignatieff a while back.  He lost that when he came out promising to review the fighter plane purchase (brought back memories of the helicopter fiasco), and his intent to whip his party on the gun-registry vote.

PPCLI didn't place first, because the pepper-potted the entire thing  :P.  Just kidding, congrats to those that participated.