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It's ultimately up to the individual.  There are healthy and unhealthy choices provided.  The food for the most part is pretty good, but you will get tired of it after awhile, especially when noticing the menu is very similar week to week.

Reminds me of a translator that came over to my truck wanting some american mre's.  I told him that we only had Canadian rations.  Upon hearing that, he made a gagging sound, and said "No, thanks."

Quite a few people that I talk to are shocked that we have to pay for everything, including taxes, and even haircuts.  Some are even of the opinion that we shouldn't have to.

While I was in high school, as a reservist, and there was quite a bit of a delay getting a CT to the regs.  My mom actually called up a Marine recruiting centre in the US to see if I could enlist down there.  This was back in about 1996.  Move ahead about 10 years, and she was concerned about me...

Unfortunately most blue uniform trades are closed to SVOTP.  Apparently too many ex-infanteers.

Most of the running day to day for reg force infantry is minimum 5km.  For you being a future reservist, I would say work on both, although I have no idea what trade you are interested in.  Regardless PT and being physically fit should be important to all CF segments.  I'm sure all this has been...

Most people I know that failed the express test during BMQ and ended up in RFT was because of the beep test, as you could fail one strength portion and as long as you passed the run, you could stay on course.  There were a few that were there because they failed 2 strength tests, and passed the...

On our BMQ course in 2008, one of the OSIS volunteers, teaching us about stress injuries and PTSD was telling us about this incident as he was there.  It, was to him, the first step down the long slide into PTSD.  Unfortunately I cannot recall his name.

By now it has been pretty much established that Canada is the place for Americans to go if they want to be a military deserter, and they will get full support.  Where do Canadians go to be a deserter, and I wonder how much support they would get?

Turning our backs on our allies?  The US is also set to start withdrawing July 2011.  The Aussies and the Brits are withdrawing 2014.  One country just left this past weekend.  Are they turning their backs on their allies too?  I don't know the expected withdrawal dates for other ISAF nations...

The book "On Killing"  has a good explanation for this.  For most people, there is a part of their brain that will try to prevent you from killing another person.  When a person doesn't listen to that part of the brain, they may strt having mental problems, like PTSD.  Through conditioning this...

I have no idea what SMR is, but we usually stretch every morning before PT.  Are we taught the proper method of stretching, probably not.  Do we stretch at the proper time? Who knows?  Some think you should stretch before starting any exercise.  Others think you should do a warm up first then...

There is no rank, officer or NCM, in which it is almost impossible to move up to or past, or there wouldn't be any higher ranks.  Look at the job requirment differences with officers as well.  There is a good reason that it may take captains up to 10 years to reach the rank of major.  That's not...

Yes to all, including hating it, but look back with good memories.

You shouldnt run/train through injury in order to keep going on course, but pretty much everybody does.  I am sure everybody in the infantry knows of someone on their battle school that finished with an injury that they probably should have seeked medical attention.  On mine, one guy had broken...

I haven't been included in a census since 1996, if that is any indication of how accurate they are.

The government also hasn't done a very good job in selling the conflict in Afghanistan to Canadians.  I'm always being asked, after people find out I just returned from there, "Why are we there anyways?"  I can come up with a couple dozen reasons, but just the fact that people ask that, shows...

The PSP staff have a standard in which they are supposed to follow for counting push-ups.  Some of the staff are more strict on it than others.  The push-ups that they counted for me at the beginning of DP1 were horrible, and I wouldn't have even counted them (came down with something on the...

I know quite a few getting out because their time in Afghanistan wasn't what they expected it to be, sitting around killing time.  Others had joined just for the opportunity to go overseas, and now they have done that, it's time to get back to the "real world".  Those things can't really be...

BC_boy, the comment about all those different pairs of shoes was aimed more at cbt eng, I should have clarified.  Follow the joining instructions.