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I didn't.  I meant that it was a costly mistake on the part of the tailor! I gave them pre-fab lace to sew on (labour cost ca. $50) and they got it backwards.  "Are you sure?", they asked?  "Yes, it should be like the lace on the mess jacket in your front window", said I.  "Come back tomorrow"...

It happens that mine didn't the first time...  Rather costly mistake.

The official line for the last few years has been "adventure training".  The difficulty lies in distinguishing this from camping in a time when there is a perception that youth should not be running around the woods with rifles. I really don't envy the spot that those delivering the army cadet...

Not that I'm aware of, but I have a couple of books at home that will probably contain a picture.  I'll have a look tonight if I think of it. I think the tie you're describing is a Naval Officers' Association tie, rather than a MARCOM tie.

I can't give a definitive answer but I can offer some reasonably informed speculation.  I would suggest that it went away when the pendulum was, shall we say, swung to the left, i.e. the military aspect of the cadet programme was tending to be weakened. Now it is tending to be strengthened...

And to hell with their employees?

That makes good sense, but I would suggest that NDHQ and CFHQ should be parallel to one another, rather than one being subordinate to the other.  A structure in which the civilian bureaucracy is run by the Deputy and the forces themselves by the CDS, each of whom reports to the Minister, would...

Have you dealt with this company before?

That would be a significant change for the CDS in that he is now a peer to the Deputy Minister.

I wonder how closely those proportions match the applicant pool?  Until the pool catches up (assuming as I do that it isn't there yet) it seems as though it's almost an open job offer for any qualified applicant in the designated groups.

And must you also have lived in the Commonwealth for all of your life up to that point?  (I understand that to have been the case in the 1990s.)

The argument of inevitability, if not already known as a logical fallacy, should be.  (I prefer to call it the "barbarians at the gates" argument.) The truth of it, I would say, is that there are still enough people in Canadian society who think men wearing earrings looks bad -- and men not...

The answer would be along the lines that the CF projects an image of conservative professionalism and long hair and earrings worn by men are, still, contrary to that.  There's no doubt that they are worn in society but they remain, for the most part, very limited in conservative circles.  A good...

Perhaps the anti-beard bias lies in the fact that there are limitations on who may wear a beard in the first place, as you describe above, as opposed to purely operational limitations. Just out of curiosity, why the RIP after pioneers?

You don't have to look awfully hard to see the same thing done by other CF members, of course.

When speaking to one, sir or ma'am is appropriate.  In the CF it's not usual to address an officer by rank alone, e.g. you would not normally say "Good morning, Captain".  When starting a conversation with an officer if would be normal to say something like "Captain Bloggins, can I talk to you...

You're touching on the answer to your question here.  The conventional wisdom is that many of the flag and general officers in NDHQ are there because there's a perceived requirement for pay parity with the civil service staff who are reckoned to be "equivalent" to them in rank.  I'm not sure of...

That's not quite true: a court-martial could still sentence a CF member to death into the '90s.  (I'm not sure if the change away from that had anything to do with the Charter.)

Or, purple is another shade of green.

That was actually the first thought that came to my mind when I read the original post.