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I've seen pilots fly a desk for 4 years and get air crew.  When the Huron was in for refit the senior 5 members continued to receive SDA for 2 full years while in dry dock. If infanteers do not get LDA when posted RSS why go?  That's a pretty obvious conundrum. The disconnects are so serious...

Does RSS time count towards LDA?  What about Reserve (Infantry) time when you transfer?  After 19 years in a battalion and another 5 RSS I'll be right in there like a dirty shirt.... hee hee!  How did the Air Force and Navy actually let the Army get away with this?

I had them for years on my heal and it was a drag and the treatments (which only reduced the size of them) painful.  So I guess they are pretty serious.  I finally got rid of them when I changed the type of boots I was wearing!

The DB plan has always advertised itself to be more generour; in my case it is not.  You've extrapolated completely inaccurate figures. Amount paid will be 2.5 years +, % Reg earnings hopefully 46%, <$1900/month not indexed, shabby for 31+ yrs total svc. I would have done much better with a DC...

Twenty two years ago I transferred to the Regs after 10 yrs res service.  When I retire soon I will have contributed over $124,000 into my pension which means I will be funding well over 60% of my pension.  In other words, a defined contribution plan (like the reserve one) would have been far...

Yes, let's understand something here.  I'm quite aware that no new money will be avail to these countries.  But the fact is that the debts are on someones' books as a credit owed to them.  Who is going to pay these debts, whether owed to corporations or government?  It's not as simple as...

John McCain is the only leader who can either exit Iraq or keep troops there with any integrity.  I wouldn't trust the dems to run a lemonade stand, let alone abrogate NAFTA.

Maybe it's just time to accept the fact that the 'white man' can't solve all the world's problems, and maybe we should be addressing those closer to home.  The US effort in Iraq is crippling the economy.  They are adding $800 billion to their debt each year, perversely benefitting the Chinese...

Is the US government actually going to bail out these debtor countries with taxpayer money when hundreds of thousands Americans have just foreclosed on their homes?  This is a significant intrusion into the market as most of the debt has been repackaged and resold as various derivatives, often...

Good luck as an Infantry Officer.  If I may pass on what I have in told to recruits (your level will be higher): Be where you're supposed to be, when you're supposed to be, with the kit you're supposed to have.  Wins 99% of the time. I know it's simple and doesn't address battle procedure but...

Do the DAODs replace the old CFAOs (with 140 exemptions for paying rations)?  This is no longer in our purview in the RMS world after amalgamation and delinking of rations in the 90s.  I think Esquimalt was the first to do that (no, I'm pretty damned sure).  Who is responsible for handling...

Slightly off topic... I am due to be posted to Edmonton this APS (I'll believe it when I have my posting message).  Are quarters readily avail, or as an IR will I be out on the economy?  Frankly, I don't really care as I already have a home and don't mind the shacks, but a heads up would be nice.

I don't think that there's much change... 30 years ago while in uniform I saluted our DCO who was in civilians.  He was positively embarrassed by it, and said I shouldn't salute him.

I'm told I have to go near  blind before my cataracts are fixed... but gender reassignment?  No problem!

I have mixed service as well, signed my IPS two years ago and now am in my 22nd year of 'real' Reg F time.  I also have 2yr 288 days pensionable from my reserve years.  Trying to get an answer about whether 25 total year gives me max benefits is like pulling teeth.  My only goal now is to stick...

"The military has a sweet deal when it comes to paying into their pension fund (as compared to other defined pension plans).  By 2014 we will be paying 34% from the 22% mentioned in the article above. " The MP pension plan is pretty sweet and probably is similiar to the 22% quoted above.  But I...

Thucydides - We are still at the mercy of the middle east when it comes to oil, no doubt about that (the term '*****' comes to mind).  Alternatives should be pursued vigorously, just had a quote done for full solar ($20,000 to start).  Petroleum should be used for plastics and pharmaceuticals...

I think the recent US policy to meet with Iran on any issue is the right one.  A military strike is a trump card that really can only be played once; not because the US can't muster the force but because public opinion inside and out of Iran will become sympathetic to it.  I think the age of...

EI has turned into a grotesque monstrosity.  At least the government should have the honesty to admit that the money really isn't squirrelled away for a rainy day.  Beware when the insurable amounts go from 39k to 40k and then 41k, because that will claw back any GST or income tax cuts the gov't...

By 'Communist' I mean not the pure economic definition but more in terms of state control, especially on freedom of speach.  I don't believe there has ever been a true communist state 'from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs' type.  In every society some have always...