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It looks like a very good course. If anyone intends to take this up, it may be helpful to refer to the former Medical Assistant course that was offered to sea cadets at HMCS QUADRA.  There may be some opportunity to avoid re-inventing the wheel in a few instances.

All coming together now. So, you've managed to break your enrolment oath and the Code of Service Discipline in one afternoon, from the comfort and safety of anonymity.  That's pretty disappointing.

What's that supposed to mean?

Maritime Command used to have a command badge, and I think Air Command did as well (if not, its predecessor commands almost certainly did). In the case of the navy, it's not really part of the heritage to wear a command badge.  I don't know when it was discontinued but I would guess that it was...

Do you have anything to back that up?

That's the MARS III and MARS IV courses, preceded by NETP-O, which is the course that turns generic CF officers into naval officers. Yes, D-level training is your specialty.  Submarines is one such course.

Good enough -- but what I was getting at is that all NavRes NCMs take the full reg-force equivalent BMQ rather than the local or regional course offered in the army reserve.

My information is dated, but I believe that all Naval Reserve NCMs take the full BMQ at St. Jean (or, at some times, Borden).

Love it.

If we want to get right into it, mess dress corresponds to white tie which is otherwise known as formal dress (or evening dress). Mess undress corresponds to black tie, also called semi-formal dress.  A tuxedo jacket is a dinner jacket; so is the white jacket sometimes worn with black tie in...

No RCN tartan there, but there are three RCAF ones.

I've seen such a picture as well (maybe the same one).  The world wonders. That's the one I mentioned above. Is anyone familiar enough with the organization that regulates such things to be able to find out how official this is?

I remember this being discussed elsewhere a while ago and no evidence could be found of there having been a Canadian naval tartan (although there is a US one).  The closest anyone could come was to an otherwise unidentified tartan used by a somewhat obscure naval P&D band several decades ago...

Nobody asked for any of my hair when I joined.  To be honest, I've never heard of a hair test before.  I only clicked on this thread out of curiosity about what it is.

I think the premise of your argument is nonsense and I'm not really interested in getting involved, but I will note that I have, in fact, met a black LCol.

If I recall correctly (and it's been a good long while since I read that paper) the information quoted above was proposed as a possible scheme for a national call-out or the reserves, as opposed to a description of any existing plan.

To put it into perspective, I don't believe it's ever happened outside of a world war.

Who are they filling Juno Tower and Russell House with?

My mistake.  It was billed as the first at the time, but perhaps without rigorous research.

You may find this book worth a read: http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vo6/no1/br-cl-01-eng.asp You won't command a ship as a Log O, but it may be possible to get command of various shore establishments. In the Naval Reserve world, the first Log O to command a Naval Reserve unit was appointed...