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Now that the new Pension for life has been around for awhile, I am curious as to how many people received the PSC or applied to get a lump sum. My sense is that most are still getting the lump sum, am I way off on that? Why did you choose what you did?

It doesn't affect my day to day life one bit and once it became official it was a moot point but the choice of aviator as a replacement for either private or airman shows how messed up our process is. First of all, as Pilots and ACSOs make up the vast majority of our officers the odds of someone...

Your SSD is the day you submit all the information required on your part. Everything after that is on VAC. They will often try to tell you that it doesn't start until they have all the information they need but that isn't what the policy says. With that is mind, I try to make sure I submit...

I'm attempting to purchase a house right now in Halifax and even they are having bidding wars. It is ridiculous.

Some old Army ones that may have fallen out of style in the last decade or two: Idle Crow - Lazy bastard ie "Get moving you idle crows" Cockjaws - Said to someone who won't shut their mouth ie "you can't keep your damn mouth shut can you, Cockjaws?" Asseyes - Said to someone who won't won't...

I would like to congratulate Fishbone Jones on the second anniversary of his VAC Claim. That is longer than many marriages.

4 more months to go at this rate. That will be just about 2 years. Disgusting. There is a post from me, back in 2015, on the first page of this thread being concerned I hadn't received a decision at 15 weeks. Oh how nice it was to have such problems.

We have reached a point where I work that we can not do our principle task without breaking the rules or spending 3 times the required time to do the job combine with 3 days of pre-planning. We are becoming Americans trying to substitute "safety" rules in place of teaching people to be safe in a...

There used to be a program like that where employers would go out for "military training" where they would shoot guns, go for RHIB rides, ride a tank, etc. I think we should do more of it but maybe they have cut it because it is hard to impress someone who has a cutting edge cell phone in their...

I will be honest, this scares the shit out of me a little. I can see my retirement on the horizon and I have zero direct skills to market. I have spent the majority of my career working with things that go BANG or BOOM and neither translate well to civvy side. To top it off, I joined young prior...

I don't agree with him but how can you place the burden of proof with him over something that hasn't happened yet? He said he fears it could happen. It isn't something that can be proven until it either happens or doesn’t. He can make his case and persuade you, or not, but it is literally...

I think it says more about what people want from politicians. I recently saw a discussion in regards to the WE controversy where people were saying, if it isn't illegal then it isn't a problem. The don't expect good behaviour, they expect them to say the right things and not overtly break the law.

The difference is choice and I am not sure there is much of a difference anymore. Police, Fire fighters, etc do run towards the danger because are overwhelmingly filled with people who think that way. Soldiers are similar. However, if a police office refuses to enter a building because of the...

I think it's the latter. I'm currently at 83 weeks with the vast majority of it at stage 3.

Both the Veterans and CAF ombudsmen, specifically Guy Parent and Gary Walbourne, made that argument in front of Parliament but the Trudeau Government declined. The ombudspersons were a good idea but they are only as good as the support they get from the government. Unless it's something simple...

I suggest anyone who is wondering why we have shortages and retention issues read this Reddit thread. It sums up the feelings in the CAF rather well. Senior lleadership is completely missing the boat IIRC the expected "overtime" above and beyond a regular work schedule is priced into our pay at...

This article from the Jewish press disagrees. https://www.jewishpress.com/sections/features/features-on-jewish-world/walt-disney-mickey-mouse-and-the-nazis/2019/07/11/ Regardless, it isn't a clear picture but there is a difference between a Nazi sympathizer and an anti-semite. They were not...

What exactly was offensive about her tweet? Was it the fact she compared Republicans to Jews or Jews to Republicans? It might have been the reference to Nazis as bad seeing as Walt Disney was a noted Nazi sympathizer. They may have taken that personally. They clearly couldn't be mad about...

This lack of a redemption arc in society troubles me deeply. Who here didn't do stupid shit as a kid? Who here thinks the same way now as they did when they we 15or 16? Hell, I can think of a particular Base Disciplinary Chief was caught selling cocaine while in uniform as a young sailor. I'm...

People who knew Vance tuned it out almost immediately. His reputation in the Army was well established prior to being selected as CDS. He saw how the Australian Army commander was recieved on a similar issueand how badly Lawson was doing so he styled his approach appropriately. Lawson was...