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Congratulations Patrick, If you haven't yet seen it, I HIGHLY recommend you find the basic training video on the Forces.ca website. It's going to give you an eye-opening look at your first 14 weeks in the CF. As for your immediate future, be prepared for information overload! On the day of...

You're very welcome. I hope it all works out for you. Good Luck!

You will be given the opportunity to request where you would like to be posted. Don't count on it. The Forces will assign you to where they most need you ... given Murphy's Law, it will not even be close to where you want to be. :)

That's the second thing Moe's taught me in the last month! Thanks Moe, I had no idea the PMed course was an exception to the six month rule (but in my defense, as a recruiting topic, we're generally talking about QL3 courses when we're talking about postings vs. taskings vs. deployments vs...

Yeah, that's what Roy said to ... but when I click on "notify" it asked me if I'm sure I want to disable notifications for this topic ... ??? Oh well, I'll figure it out someday. :)

I remember the days when we were forbidden from being in any way political. We were told we weren't even allowed to sign petitions. I still use that as my personal policy, just to avoid any problems. I keep my personal politics inside the voting booth and inside my own home as much as I can...

Doing my math magic: If you were a cadet, and you're 40 now, and you had to leave cadets no later than 18 years old, and we didn't start using Service numbers until the mid-nineties ... I highly doubt you could have ever possibly had a service number ... and that's what we care about now if...

I have a better suggestion - go to the Forces.ca website and figure out for yourself which trade(s) interest you ... THEN come to the Recruiting Centre to see us and find out if those trades are available (here's a hint - the 'typical' trades someone with your background would be interested in...

Depending on where you are applying, quite a few CFRC's are back-logged on Medical Exams ... therefore, if you apply now, by the time you complete the CFAT, you will probably do the interview next before having to do the medical, giving you time to heal. Worst case scenario, the medical people...

Just to clear up another misconception ... the CF does NOT recruit in High Schools, Colleges OR Universities. We provide information sessions about opportunities available. I KNOW that sounds like a line from some official propaganda, but it's true. We do not take application packages to...

When you do the online application, it simply puts all of your information into our system prior to you coming in to the office. The central IT specialists will sort your application and forward it to your closest CFRC and about 4 days after your application goes in you will get a phone call...

Hey OS Mr.Jimi, Sorry I missed your swearing in, I was otherwise occupied on Friday ... congratulations! Otis

Funny enough, I too volunteered for a couple of years, teaching Supply (QM) to sea cadets ... I didn't have AS rewarding an experience as FDO, but I also don't think I was as quite as involved as him. Also, we have another PO2 in our unit who currently volunteers for the Navy League.

My best advice would be to use your Subject Matter Experts (SME's) ... I don't care what rank they are, a junior clerk with a few years experience is still going to know more about paperwork than we ever will! If you have a SME for a given area, ask them their opinion - odds are you WILL get...

What is the purpose of your question? Are you looking to compare notes about Barrie? Did you have questions about the process? Did you want to complain? Or are you just looking for a friend to go through the process with? I'm not trying to rag on you ... I simply want to know because your...

All successful applications go to Merit Listing ... Natioanlly selected ones are SELECTED nationally (vice locally) ... there is no set timing ... when they need people into the training system for a given trade, they select for that trade. Otis

My buddy wore high-collar whites for his wedding, while I wore Mess Kit as the best man. The wedding was in the afternnon on a farm! The way we looked at it ... it made the Bride happy, we all looked nice, and in 20 years - looking at the wedding photos - who's going to remember what time tha...

I concur with BlackAdder ... all of the illustrations in the Dress Manual appear to conform to the jacket reaching the bottom of the buttocks. In fact, Figure 6-1, dealing with the alteration of service jackets for Kilted orders of dress specifically says the skirt of the jacket "shall be...

Here's my  :2c: worth of advice for all of you, for what it's worth (keeping in mind that not only do I CURRENTLY work in Recruiting, but I spent almost two years working at NOTC Venture, the Officer training school you are all going to for NOAB!) Remember that NOAB is a week-long JOB...

We no longer do a urine test as part of the Application process. Your birth certificate and/or passport should have been handed in with your application. Your ID should have been checked by the person at the front desk to make sure you were you before calling your MCC for the Interview ... the...