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PC - up to $400,000 is no problem - it's the additional 200 grand (that came into effect in the last couple years) that requires an application to be sent to Ottawa for final auth, only after the local SISIP office runs it through the magic calculator and you're found to be desperate enough. So...

Thought I'd bump up my life insurance to the max $600,000 seeing as I'm deploying. The SISIP rep told me that, past 400K, they run each applicant through a calculator and if you've made the mistake of say, paying off most of your debt, odds are you'll get declined. Should I have bought a new...

How does the BFT fit into this? I've heard Project Force is taking the place of both the BFT and EXPRES, and I've also heard it's sit no change - except I assume if you can't get exempt on PF you won't get an exempt off the BFT...

If a signed leave pass means I work from home vice garrison, but allows me the honour of not shaving/changing out of my pyjamas, that's a worthwhile trade-off.

Last we heard, a BMQ-qual DP1 Arty course will be posted to Shilo in May, do their arty training when the Regt can manage it, and fall in on the gunline after that. So your instructors may not have been wrong - but I couldn't tell you if you're part of that group.

Yoicks!

If things are coming off a plane and there are ground troops, there should be a JTAC (who would indeed be able to speak to everybody in the air whether VHF or UHF). The ASCC doesn't/shouldn't touch anything in a ROZ when things are kinetic.

Stand by for an B.A. grad's take on the (on average) math: a ROTP candidate spends 4 years as a OCdt earning a yearly average of $19,020 over that time. They finish at RMC/civvy U and are commissioned. Then they spend a minimum of 2 years as a 2Lt and 2 years as a Lt before they can become a...

If only this guy could get posted to Shilo...

How so?

Has anyone used the 81mm subcal? Given the amount and price of the actual rounds, we haven't bothered trying to try it...I assume it has the same limfacs as the 14.5mm?

Hmm...sometimes I surprise even myself with the stupid things that come out of my fingers. In an attempt to salvage the thread, I ask with all goodwill - is he expected to change trades throughout his career to maximize the royal effort? And has security changed over there such that they'll let...

Mummy, I want to be a pilot...

Isn't that a quote from Anchorman? Where does it land the other half of the time?

CTs are showing up more quickly because the admin gods are working through each trade. Mine opened up a couple months ago. The program to allow PRes with op experience into the Reg F at their reservist rank ended several months ago. If you didn't cross over before, you're no longer getting your...

All you need to know is "un", "deux", or "trois"...

38 CBG ATG will be taking part in both of 1 RCHA's CT events this FY, along with its own gun ex at the beginning of the training year. The ATG deployed as a third battery on 1 Horse's spring ex two months ago, with no major delta concerns. Once the EMOs resulting from the MID are signed off...

Anybody around unlucky enough to have an issued Blackberry try syncing it with a Playbook? I tried reading the documentation on the DWAN but fell asleep reading the title...from what I understand, it's allowable as long as passwords are used and you don't use it as a personal tablet? I get a lot...

Your best bet is to call the recruiting office you originally went to to see if you've been potentially loaded on a BMQ serial this summer (the funding for the courses is not locked in yet so nothing has been decided for certain). You could probably call the good RSS Sgt in Red Deer and he would...

It's 2-3 weeks depending if they make you work weekends. The national training calendar hasn't been released yet for FY 12/13.  BMOQs are not trade-specific. Your parading unit is part of 36 or 37 CBG?