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CSIS will hire you as an intelligence officer if you have any university degree and have second language skills. It must be a minimum bachelor‘s degree. If you do not have the minimum, you can apply regionally to join as a surveillance officer. The pay is less, but the pay for int officers is...

Contract work IS a dilemma. If your PT job will result in a full time gig, then skip summer training. I know it sucks, but your civvy job will pay your bills. The army will always be there for you, and will always need you. It‘s nice to go as soon as you can, and certainly don‘t wait till...

You will forget how tired you are anyway when you are on the move or doing something. It‘s tough in defensive, because you are sitting there and waiting. But when there is activity, you don‘t notice it as much. During our ex to Fort Drum in March, I don‘t think I got more than 3 hours kip the...

... 30 secs to offload... with "Chinook, seats out"... but on SG03 we had the helos with seats in. You had to strap in for ‘safety‘. Would they do that in the theatre? I dunno, haven‘t been, but yes, there was plenty of time on the deck during the load and unload. Mind you, I wasn‘t aiming...

I‘ve had to miss several consecutive training nights, and have always kept my sect comd informed, and have had no problems whatsoever. I originally thought this would be a problem, but I think people recognize that I want to be there, and make the effort to be there when it does not conflict...

Those Gortex boots are comfy, but I find that mine are crap for any marching, especially on pavement. I‘ll take the Mark III‘s any day for marching. The Gortex seem to lack ankle support. Maybe I just need to lace them tigher, I dunno. The ruck should have a proper hip belt and what not, I...

I betcha Grewal will not get a custodial sentence. It will probably be some period of probation and a "no go" order, peace bond, etc. If he doesn‘t get a custodial sentence, he will keep his job. At customs, we had a guy lose his job because he allegedly tried to obtain free sex out of a...

Get some motivation and drive into your body, troop. No, seriously, I find it REALLY hard to stay awake, and on my SQ ex, I mostly just chatted with my trench mate quietly. We took turns manning the C9. Eventually we were allowed to rotate guys an hour at a time back to the hooches we set up...

I think this was mentioned before, but Wolverine in the X-Men movies is apparently a Cdn soldier. During the first X-Men you can plainly see his Cdn pattern ID discs, and he was counting Cdn $5‘s after his bareknuckle match. I know it‘s not a movie ABOUT the CF, but ...

Well I‘m going again, this year, and I will "soldier on" and make the best of my return to 3"LIB" - the 3rd Libyan Infantry Bde, or whatever nickname we come up with this year. My goal is to use the time out in the field as a chance to brush up on individual soldiering skills, get practice...

Graeme, I‘ve been with the 48th for two years and I haven‘t regretted my choice. I work with some great folks, and I like to think we have the right mix of work and play. And, for keeping traditions alive, and overall social events, I think the 48th are spot on. When I was in BMQ, and not...

Mine is definitely a lifesaver. This weekend, doing range clean up, wearing webbing was impractical, but it was handy having water right there while I was running around to and fro picking up litter and salvage. The night before on the march back to the shacks, again, getting a canteen out is...

Thanks, 48Highlander! ;) I have a feeling we‘ll get plenty of chances leading up to the church parade, anyway.

It would‘ve been cool to see the C3‘s firing from up in a helo, I agree. Yes, I remember pizza, and I certainly enjoyed it, but it only showed up very late in the week (I think after the live fire defensive, no?) ... I know, some people will complain about anything. The showers like 5x a day...

AFV recognition was probably the hardest written test I‘ve done so far in my brief military career. It was part of BIQ. It was not very in-depth, according to some of the more experienced instructors, but it did touch on a wide variety of equipment (mostly former Soviet-bloc). I found some...

Nearly every major police service has a tactical team, including Montreal. Toronto‘s ETF (Emergency Task Force) did a demo for the 48th a while ago, although I was working and unable to attend that night. Even Halton Regional Police, a force of no more than 300 cops, has an emergency task...

Your doctor should be able to advise you better, but a leg break normally takes 6 weeks to heal. You will want to spend some time conditioning afterwards, as the muscles in the broken limb won‘t have been used as much. I‘d say a bone break is easier to overcome than soft tissue injuries. I...

Shortbus, I did Stalwart Guardian last year, and although I had fun, it seemed apparent why the other troops began referring to it as "fat camp 03". They fed us IMPs for the entire time, and we had no "fresh" until the End Ex BBQ (and I must admit, the BBQ was quite good, but that‘s a long time...

I wish they taught more of this stuff on BMQ. I‘ll add this to the list of "things they didn‘t teach me on BMQ" along with... ... left/right turn on the march ... fix/remove bayonets ... reverse arms ... slow march ... the list goes on! I looked pretty stupid the other day as a 2nd year...

Perhaps a very high wall should be built around the troubled areas of Iraq, say about 50 or 60 feet. Give them their peace, withdraw the coalition troops, seal them from the outside "evil" world with its "satanic" influences... ... and then fill them to the top with water!