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No reserve unit is going to kick somebody out if they're unable to do their DP1 because of a civvy job. It's hard enough to get rid of someone who's on the NES list for never parading. Your career will be severely limited and you'll end up doing a whole bunch of GD on exercises, but if you keep...

One prerequisite: can you sing "God Save the Queen"? If too many pers are successful with the first verse, whittle them down by requiring the other ones (or the special bonus Canadian verse)...or that it all be sung in key.

Jeff - exposure, yes, but unless you're posted to W Bty as a FOO, you're on the IG course and upon completion will be teaching on the FOO course. RSS is the same - you are the SME/mentor for the PRes and are expected to train them.

Is there any point in comparing Boer War-era citations with present day? Look at the last two Brit VCs - Beharry and Budd gave up all expectations of living to do what they did...and imagine the VCs that could have been issued in WWI if all the witnesses hadn't died along with the one who...

Why not get rid of the different pay scales altogether? Give DEOs a signing bonus to compensate for them having paid for their own university education (half after having completed trades training, half after having served how-many-ever years MilCol grads are under contract) and have everybody...

Also, can you measure how much gravy is left? (Answer: it's a trick question...there's never any gravy left.)

Only at AVCON could the C3 be considered "new"...

Not to be hyper-picky, but "gunner with an artillery tasking" would be more exact - for the history book... ;D

I like to browse the Court Martial website every so often for my own entertainment. When are his trial's decision documents going to be posted? There's already been cases tried after his that have been published. Was it held in French and is awaiting translation?

Add to the above the annual number of positions open for the career mgr to fill and the trade's historical outlook on speed of promotion.

When I take my socks off at the end of the day, they smell. I assume that same stink would transfer itself to my footwear if I wasn't wearing socks. Maybe it's just a grossness issue. All messes are different - the last one I ate in required collared shirts, turtlenecks or ascots...I would have...

In my experience: 1.  How long is phase 3 and phase 4 training? 3-ish months each 2.  Up to date version of what each phase comprises? Don't know. They have been known to change. When I did it, Ph 3 (DP 1.1) was almost all recce and Ph 4 (DP 1.2) was command post, Safety, and more recce). But...

Hostess ketchup chips. Potential ensuing destruction of any ant farms will be well worth it...

I have a piece of paper signed by him at his outgoing rank. I assume it will now be a sought-after collector's item and will be placed on EBay forthwith... ::)

This: "You will not use excessive webspeak, or other shorthand styles of typing. Please use English or French to the best of your ability; this makes it easier for those who are not posting in their native language." Not everything on the interweb has to look like it was pulled off Twitter.

I don't think the SMIG is posted to Red Deer... Gunner78 - you're right - they've moved the CIG Directives off Documentum onto a LFDTS website and it took me a while to find them using the awesome DIN search engine. If you can wait until Monday I can email your DIN address.

Mmmm...bagel crisps...

By "political correctness" do you mean the mandate given to us by our higher to stop living in FOBs and start living among the locals, the ANA and AUP, getting to know them all and attempting to help build some sense of trust between all the parties in the short time we have left in Afghanistan...

I'm not talking about TiCs. I'm talking about the rest of the day where you don't have PID on an insurgent and are engaging him. That's the greater part of most days, BTW. Incidentally, all this hand-wringing about all those assets not being there when troops need them when things go kinetic is...

The problem is TF 1-06 was four years ago and things are different now. They fight different, so we'd better fight different.