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  1. donaldk

    New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

    Problem with your Point 1: Lore of the RCN: No one is allowed to offer thought that would make sense.  You should know this by now. Lore of DND Budgeting: Can't spend part of that $200M commitment left over yet because the EX04 wants his performance bonus.  If anyone asks about APS 2017 moves...
  2. donaldk

    Whither the Royal Canadian Legion? Or RCL Withers?

    Thanks, Saw the listing on Ebay (which has no address) and was hoping there was a walk-in location as I am on TD to ESQ next week.  Not far from the Wardroom.
  3. donaldk

    Officers to the front of the line at clothing?

    CANFORGEN is pending signature for release...  that is all I overheard.
  4. donaldk

    Officers to the front of the line at clothing?

    Clothing shouldn't have preferential lines - like ESQ the Halifax clothing stores likes appointments if it is a major important transaction or urgent (e.g. DAG, deployments, etc) - they have phones for a reason.  My time is busy, but when I go to clothing I expect to wait in line like everyone...
  5. donaldk

    Defence Infrastructure Failing for Lack of Investment

    I read the above article as basically confirmation that ADM(IE) has nearly created the SSC of the infrastructure world (all we would need is for AME(IE) itself to loose its mandate and PSPC take over in a mega-fail fashion).  Now if CRS/OAG can rip their books open and check into their...
  6. donaldk

    Engine Room Fire in HMCS Protecteur

    BZ to all indeed, thanks for sharing the CANFORGEN (DVPNI is slow).  As I type this I am looking directly at the Stbd side of ExPROTECTEUR as the backdrop (currently on site this week).
  7. donaldk

    RCMP prevent attack - 10 Aug 2016

    Check out London Ontario's Reddit...  /r/londonontario/ Multiple threads are ongoing about this.
  8. donaldk

    Using POMV to fulfill you job requirement

    Hattrick72, if you are still having issues you may PM me and we can take this over to the DWAN email.  I drafted up a MSEECD and TEME actually accepted it, I recently received a CFR from Halifax TEME for my unit, for use to support oversight of the ship breaking contract in Liverpool.  The only...
  9. donaldk

    8 Months to get a DND License Plate

    FSTO, What TEME used to do in Fleet Management System is mostly now also done in DRMIS.  The old way of asking them for things and it happening doesn't happen much anymore until the L1 notification is filed.  I had to get a DRMIS account (roll 6502) just to be able to get my CFR in for a simple...
  10. donaldk

    C7/C8 refresher drills being done over videos.

    DWAN link: http://dln-afiile-contentserver.mil.ca/production/cninv000000000005689/contents_contenu.htm IE11 on my DWAN station is so fucked up that I couldn't post this last week. P.S.  Good intent behind the videos but someone failed in the implementation (uses flash plugin, bad video...
  11. donaldk

    Yes, we are getting chat

    Chat bar loaded up, nice feature, will give it a try-out at some point when I can commit an hour.  I swiftly figured out how to close it as I come and go frequently which can cause ANNOYING status changes for the crowd.  This is true during night prime-time after work when dealing with the kids...
  12. donaldk

    Return of NDI 75: Veteran Service Card [Merged]

    Most US Bases won't accept even an NDI 20 (but in reverse we do accept their CAC).  Officially, a VCR must be on file with the base for you to do this...  It doesn't help that the US has the CAC and we are still rocking NDI 20s that can be forged (whatever happened to combining the PKI into...
  13. donaldk

    Prior Learning Assessment Review( PLAR ) FAQs

    You can get BMOQ plar'd if you have an open file for a commissioning program. Contact your PSO with your concern, or file case manager for CT. I had the RegF BMOQ PLAR'd by CFLRS St. Jean as a PRes Master Seaman (with CFPLQ completed) to my MPRR 4 months prior to my CT/OT COS date (via Special...
  14. donaldk

    Amended T4 for OP Impact

    Also check MyAccount at CRA's website portal - DND's T4s are uploaded to CRA and are reflected in the portal.  Initial receipt and amendment history will also show up here (if you haven't registered you should do so - VERY useful if you suspect a T-slip was late).  I didn't even bother with EMAA...
  15. donaldk

    HMCS Montréal part of navy trial to experiment with reducing crews

    When I was on IRO, 3 of the NavComms were IT, remainder were mostly trainees not counting the PO1, PO2, and the MS.  Alongside it was sweet having a NavComm section of 30 strong, because it meant as the OOD you had one on the duty watch if that priority message needed to be chopped out (in its...
  16. donaldk

    Armed Forces Consider incentives to keep soldiers fit

    Hope all went well with the OAG folks on your end, got them teed up first thing at one of my contractor's warehouses tomorrow (not the contractor thought that I would greatly desire for OAG to rip an a--hole wide open).  After that I will be overseeing the comedy-fest of Lockheed Martin loading...
  17. donaldk

    Can Parents Trigger Release/Withdraw Consent for Minor Recruits

    One line I tossed to my mother back in the day when she thought negatively about me joining PRes was "Want to pay for my and -my brother's- university costs?  We need this for school - You can't afford it, this debate ends now".  If your parents finances are rough, you can start a similar debate...
  18. donaldk

    Commissioning Plan - Current Trade is Red

    This is a question best suited for your local BPSO who you should be already engaged with.  They will have the answer for this. What entry plan are you doing? CFR or SCP (you hint at being a senior NCO, and indicated also having a degree - the two entry plans have different file handling...
  19. donaldk

    All About PAT (merged)

    And to add, PAT can have interesting GD tasks waiting for someone to volunteer -- let your PAT chain of command (CoC) know if you have a desired task to go on before they assign one you don't want - or make you sit around bored.  For an upcoming ex, an exercise in Gagetown needed extra MSVS...
  20. donaldk

    Naval Combat Dress (NCD) uniform [Merged]

    Someone's leading change PER point for sure...  so lets spend a whack of cash retrofitting the existing NCDs to match the in-trial ICUs, and do the entire thing again on the new ICUs, instead of doing it in one shot.
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