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Nonono, it doesn‘t work that way. SQ is for privates only. CAP is for officers. CAP covers most of what SQ covers, except maybe for some weapons related stuff. CAP is much more intensive than SQ since YOU have to lead a group while in SQ you are just a participant in things like section...

No, your recruiter is wrong. After your BMQ/BMOQ, your course is the CAP(R) - Common Army Phase (Reserve). In SQ the NCMs participate in stuff like section attacks and recce patrols, but in CAP(R) the candidates have to lead the section attacks and recce patrols (and are marked on them). You...

And if they said Brezhnev was suffering from a cold, he was suffering from a cold... A story is spun so that it doesn‘t make the releasing party look bad... it shouldn‘t be the other way around where it‘s spun so that they look opaque (as in this particular case). If the death (for the sake...

I definitely see your point Bedpan Elemental, and you are probably right in your assessment. But I think one would find the same level of self-interest amongst the rest. High school kids these days don‘t want to take Canadian History. They do it because it‘s mandatory (that or it‘s a bird...

Oh, I just realized why the BMQ/SQ people all got their CADPATs so quickly... it‘s because they got sized relatively recently. Besides the fact that clothing stores doesn‘t have your size, the other reason that I‘ve come across often is that they haven‘t been sized for CADPAT issue. I hear...

I was just building the argument that chances are that the media relations people (spin doctors if I may) REALLY didn‘t know what the reason the cause of death was. It was a pot shot against those media types (on both sides of the press) and not at the coalition forces... no need to single me...

I didn‘t take offense (as I said) and I‘m sure it wasn‘t intentional. I don‘t like freeloaders just like any other red-blooded person. I just thought the bit about "other countries" was superflous (and a bit broad in its stroke) in regards to your point, that‘s all. Just to make this message...

Careful there about the immigrants, because I happen to come from another country, plus I happen to like universal health care, AND I pay my taxes. I don‘t necessarily value the military over health care and social spending -- I hope that doesn‘t make me a "non-patriot". I am equally convinced...

I think it‘s a matter of "them" (whoever it might be) not wanting to lose expensive kit... Because I think statistically, someone who hasn‘t finished their MOC training is more likely to release than someone who has finished it. The Goretex jacket probably costs a couple of hundred bucks (if...

If you can manage to get a car and keep it at Borden, it‘s great... that or you‘ll need to suck up to someone with a car, because that means you can go home on the weekend (or just go to Barrie). Borden is a very spread out base too... so having a car to go to the Canex or Tim Hortons is a bit...

From the sound of it, I think CFB Borden is probably a better bet, since CFSEME is there... I think ArmyBoy has done up to SQ already for his basic...

I KNEW there was no such thing as a stupid question :D I‘m learning tons just by asking. While we‘re on the subject of Commonwealth, would I be right to assume that saluting only when you have your headdress on is a Commonwealth thing? Americans seem to salute every which way, with or...

And don‘t forget the bugs... the bugs! I remember the bugs feasting away at my leg and my butt through my combats when I was lying prone in an ambush... Lying still without scratching, now there‘s a feat. :D

Now, was there a rationale behind the change? Was everyone doing the palms down anyways so they decided to make the switch or was it a decision-by-committee thing? I‘m curious to know if it happened overnight...

I was just wondering, when did our salute switch from palms out (like the Brit army) to palms down (like the navy(?)/Yanks)? I get the impression that during WWII it was still done with palms out, so I am assuming it was between then and now that the form was changed. Did the unification have...

Hmmmm... the detainee was around 30 yrs old? "Natural Causes" sounds a little fishy. I can‘t really think of too many natural causes for a man of 30. Heart attack maybe, but I doubt they get to do anything strenous to get a heart attack (and I doubt the guy is a big obese man whose heart just...

I‘m a young‘un... what was the corned beef hash like? Is it anything like the Hereford corned beef in a tin from Brazil? I was thinking the other day that I wouldn‘t mind some Spam in my IMP... I could eat that stuff cold and still like it. :p

There are 4 main ways that I can think of to serve an IMP meal a) Eat it cold right from the package. *shudder* b) Put it into a pressure cooker (along with like the rest of your section‘s meals) and heat it up with a Coleman stove. This requires someone who knows what s/he is doing -- could...

It‘s probably kinda like how all the civilian kids who recruiters talk to want to be "snipers" :D But seriously though, in the Reserves, you have to a) be proactive in managing your army career, making sure your chain of command knows your aspirations (but be realistic); learn to walk...

I think you have to put everything into context. The role of the tanks are not to really fight an all out war (anymore). In fact, I think the latest doctrinal idea that has been kicking around is to go to all AFV and be rid of the MBTs. I, as a taxpayer, personally do not feel we need to...