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I thought all recruits do there BMQ at St. Jean?

At St. Jean, when you get there you can go to the St. Jean website, and you can download your whole course, pretty much your schedule. I think its on the (DIN) so you can‘t get it until you‘re there. Charles

You‘ll ahve a checklist to fill out with things regarding, epilepsy, bakc pains, head injuries, etc. just a bunch of serious stuff. When I signed up I was seeing a chiropractor and had several concusssions from sports, I had a seizure when I was a baby. They ask you if this stuff is...

I‘m surprised they didn‘t go over the assessment sheet with you. basically they do a little arithmetic with your age weight, #of pushups, # situps, steptest and they somehow get a number and you either pass or fail. Its the standard assessment sheet you will see throughout your CF for fitness...

I had someone in my platoon who had a prescription of over 400 closer to 500 in one eye and that was classified a V4. He wasn‘ted allowed to go combat arms so he became a signals officer which is as close as he could get to combat arms. I was classified as V3 an able to be an engineer, i have...

In regards to after the AD guys have done there job, You can‘t shoot a pilot under canopy I believe.

You learn some a lot of these rules in the Forces. Some seem out of left field, for example do not destroy places of worship, only return fire in a similar fashion that it is given (ie. you cant nuke a sniper), can‘t shoot airborne troops, though i think it is in regards to pilots being shot...

Boy do I ever want a G-wagon. A couple of weeks ago when I went home I saw a couple of the G500 being driven by hockey mom‘s down my street brining a bunch of their kids to practice. What a sweet looking ride. Quite a contrast too with what they are doing in Afghanistan. Charles

For reg force the swim test consist of 2 min treading water with combats less the boots then swimming twenty five metres. then jumping off a three metre spring board with a lifejacket and swimming 25 metres. However this is optional but highly recommended, if u can‘t swim you will be taught...

Don‘t forget about us young‘uns. I was a 17 year old officer cadet. It can be jsut as hard for young guys as it is old guys, especially trying to earn respect. It is intimdating to be young!!! The young ones learn lots from the older guys and believe it or not the young guys have a few things...

that makes sense. Similar to enigineers from other countries coming in. They have to assess their education requirements. I read in Introdutction of Professional Engineering in Canada (Andrews, Aplevich, et al., 2003) that foreign engineers wishing to practice they need to take in the region...

Gentlemen, This thread was started to acknowledge certain members of this board were going to begin Basic. If you have gripes with one another have the courtesy to PM each other. demeaning and belittling each other on a public forum just shows lack of respect for yourself and each other...

Was Padre James at the Mega when you were on BMQ Bert? She was great, she would go on 5:00am runs with my platoon. She was always super nice when you had to see her. Padres without a doubt are very vital to the Forces. You would be surprised how often people seek the Padre.

Was it one of those Trudeau things, where they were trying to get rid of ewverything that ties us to Britain. Like the RCAF, RCN, he even tried getting rid of the R from the RCMP !!!

10 weeks i mean!!

For officers, I‘m not 100% sure for NCM, if you‘re in PAT, for reasons like injury during training or medical restrictions that do not allow you to finish the course you can be, with consent of the CO, attached posted to a local unit around your home for a period time, working recruiting or a...

S_Baker I know at RMC they have rifle and pistol teams. I heard in the reserve they have competitions. As to crew serve weapons, I‘m not to familiar with those competitions. I doubt many .50 cal MG will be going off for a trophy. Charles

A classmate of mine aplied to RMC last year. her mdeical found trace amounts of protein in her urine and they basically said there is no way that they would let her in. She was applying to be a pilot, and they do go through some intense medical screenings. I wonder if the protein issue is jsut...

I stumbled upon this article today. Engineers are taking things seriously!! http://www.canada.com/montreal/specials/business/story.html?id=EFD71C59-3810-4235-BB8B-1EB1DB1AB575

Hi I was wondering about the Canadian Forces pay scale. Not that it really bothere me, cause I think there‘s no better job then the CF. All I know about the pay scale is moving down and to the right is GOOD!!! I was told pay depends on education adn time in. is this correct? I‘m not...