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    Army commander vows to issue special order to weed out extremists in the ranks

    If someone commits a crime under the CCC, and is convicted, that is one thing. Arbitrarily, deciding someone posting "all loves matter" on Facebook is hate speech and administratively releasing them dishonourably is completely another. In the CAF today we can not even refuse someone further...
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    Army commander vows to issue special order to weed out extremists in the ranks

    Why would that picture ruffle some feathers? One reason is I don't think any official CAF account (which I think CAFinUS is) should be involving itself in Politics, especially American politics. Second, it's stupid. This all stems from the US debate where Trump was asked to denounce white...
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    Military combat veteran avoids jail time on child porn conviction due to PTSD

    The claim was that it increases risk seeking behaviour and that this was the issue rather than an actual desire to harm children. I have read maybe 1 or 2 articles on this, so I could be mistaken, but I am pretty sure that was the reasoning.
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    Army commander vows to issue special order to weed out extremists in the ranks

    I think you are missing the point of the lines. He is saying when you burn all the books because your don't like they ideas, next you will burn the people suspected of holding those ideas. There is no racism or homophobia stated nor implied. In fact, I would argue you have it completely...
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    Breonna Taylor Shooting

    A lot of people are upset at this ruling because it isn't a murder charge and they don't actually understand, or care, why it can't be. They will riot over this and act lime this is proof the system is racist.
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    Armyrick's Land Healing Farm...

    I have become more and more interested interested in retiring to some sort of farming and have become intrigued at natural, or otherwise unorthodox, methods of working land. I fell down a regenerative agricultural rabbit hole the other day stating with Peter Andrews and his Natural Sequence...
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    Help with Wait Times

    The service start date (SSD) begins when VAC has all the required documents. That is not stage 3 (although the dates maybe the same). Unfortunately, the front line VAC staff are often ignorant of that and will claim it begins at stage three. I have confirmed this through the Ombudsman's office...
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    VAC wait times

    So I went to check on the status of my files which are both over a year at this point. Of course, no change but I got curious to find what VAC is saying the wait time is. I googled the wait time tool because I can't find a link on the MyVAC site and saw that it was at 65 weeks for an initial...
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    Navy to consider gender-neutral ranks

    I'm pretty sure you missed the boat when you read his column. You also attempted to read his mind rather than look at the article. While he did get the ranks wrong, it doesn't invalidate his points. The key change is seaman to sailor rather than 1st class, etc. His point about the poverty was...
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    Initiatives launched to retain and increase RCAF personnel experience levels

    It's in the SCRIT under potential. Major mess positions like PMC are considered a major secondary duty and was worth 2 points on Cpl and MCpl pers last year. It can also be worth 1 point under community involvement. More points are made off of section 3 than people think. The second part of...
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    Initiatives launched to retain and increase RCAF personnel experience levels

    You are supposed to do your job well, that's the minimum, and when they are promoting 5 of 200 it won't cut it. You can argue the mess stuff isn't important to your job but as long as they give you points for it it will continue to be important for promotion.
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    Initiatives launched to retain and increase RCAF personnel experience levels

    Speaking from the tech point of view. It is real easy to convince people to sign past their BIE because most of them are waiting for, or just recently completed their type course making them able to actually work on the Airplane by themselves. It is much harder to keep them past 10 years. We...
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    Federal restrictions hurting ombudsman's ability to help veterans: Report

    From the OVO. I assume that this is the same report.
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    VAC wait times

    As of the end of FY 19/20 they had a back log of more than 22 thousand completed cases as per this source https://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/about-vac/news-media/media-kits/dis-ben-process-summary-report
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    VAC wait times

    They used to link it on the Track your application page. I couldn't find it anywhere in the myVAC site. Thanks for the link though.
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    VAC wait times

    Did anyone else notice they quietly removed the wait time estimate tool? I wonder why?
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    Navy to consider gender-neutral ranks

    The problem is that what is considered racist, hateful or misogynistic is interpreted in widely varying ways. Saying "just suck it up Princess" is either a way of saying don't sweat the small stuff or a hateful example of the rampant misogyny in the RCN. The people the Leadership is bowing to...
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    Navy to consider gender-neutral ranks

    I could care less about the name frankly. The names have changed before and will change again. I think the stated for the change are stupid and that the change won't have any real effect but that is a different story. I do have an issue with the "contact me directly" line though. For one, the...
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    VAC wait times

    I'm glad it worked for you. I'm at 50 weeks already with no end in sight. Edit: 51 weeks
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    Alleged Institutional Racism/solutions in CAF (merged)

    In the last couple of years, I have been called a racist and a rapist by my leadership just for the act of being a part of the organization they lead. I must have missed that principle of leadership.
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