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Naahh - 28 isn't too old. "Too old" is when you just can't keep up. The big worry here is that you say you are "just getting around to being fit..." The key to the infantry is the ability to drive the body long past what your brain is convinced is the limit. If you can convince your body that...

Best I've done -- Buddy and I (instructing on QL2) acquired a chalk line, went out to the trg area and snapped down 3 grid intersections (accurately positioned and labeled) one morning prior to Map & Compass practical... Never send newbies with odd requests if the QM is bored and has a sense...

I have to confess it... I was once a young, fresh private and I (gulp) purchased a knife based solely on LCF... There, I said it, and I don't even feel chills... IMHO, if you see someone in the field festooned with Rambo-type knives or any other fancy-dandy HSLD kit, they have yet to hump it...

100% agreement here. I used "career corporals" as an example to look at the 4 incentive levels as a means of examining career progression. If your career has stalled and you want more out of it, it's either time to put out more effort or to look elsewhere. If your career has taken you as far as...

What this looks like to me is another case in the continuing saga of an utter lack of "Ministerial Responsibility" in the current government. A tradition that "the buck stops here" died some time ago, with subordinates playing the role of fall guy (Lee Majors did a better job, and even though...

It seems to me that too many "career corporals" are not happy with their lot in life. I can't speak to the current PER system, but some points raised here seem fair - some form of 360 ° review would help (I have received Pers Assessments that disagreed wildly about my ability to perform, and...

Contact your local unit's Recruiting Officer. Call the BOR (Battalion Orderly Room) on a parade or admin night (in Cornwall, call the armouries on Tues or Thurs night between 7:00 and 9:30) and ask to speak to the Recruiting Officer. That person will be able to answer most of your questions...

No, not the Class B or anything else within the army (although I wouldn't mind a Class B contract once everything gets back on track!). Everyone tells me that the thing I need to do is "Network, Network, Network!" so here goes: Anyone around here know of any consulting or contract-type...

To all those of you who have issues with what to do with your medals, or medals you currently have custody of, my response is simple: Leave a will, so that everyone knows what is to be done. As was pointed out above, in this specific case, the widow died intestate (had no will), and the family...

Reminds me of a few (too many) years ago in Ottawa - buddy was travelling down the rockliffe parkway at somewhere around 160 km/h - was pulled over and treated as per usual for empty-headed speeders. He argued that since the speed limit sign only said "60", and didn't specify km/h or MPH (or for...

aesop - I think these days, the wonderful examples we see in our political masters (and unfortunately that includes some in uniform) makes the phrase read more like "it's not my fault they passed - it's his/hers/budget/command/standards (anywhere but me)!" "Responsibility must include equal...

Let's see... it's been a few years since I did this, but I'll be coming back in (grievance finally settled - yay! not in my favour - boo!) and parading with the Glens (SD&G Highlanders) as well. Way back when (insert your favourite cliché about "how long ago" here) - when I first joined the...

Quality slipping.... been there, done that, got the T-shirt (a couple, actually) I have seen a recruit on Res crse tell the Crse WO (also the RSS WO and the Regt Recruiting O) "I just don't want to be here, John." as his excuse for sneaking out of barracks to go back to his own comfy bed (he...

I'm intrigued - what issue was that? Anyhoo - I've tried a few of them, and it would be really kind to the Yanks to say that IMPs are "slightly better" than MREs (except for the dehydrated peaches), but both are head and shoulders above the stuff the Brits feed their guys in green. All in all...

100% agreement there - savings can always be found, but often they illustrate the law of diminishing returns, especially when the impacts on morale and personal performance of having to "go back and do it again" are bigger than the savings. When you ask a kid to clean the room, then look at the...

True - it's not a bad thing... when it only happens every now and then. When DND is asked every year to look at operations and administration and to "find" 5% savings, it starts to really suck. To carry the analogy further, it's like asking your kid to go through all his toys every day, and to...

See a previous thread about PT in the Reserves - Most units have a parade night and an admin night each week - sometimes the admin night can be stretched to include other training if something big is coming up, but unless you're a clerk, an officer, or a band dude, one night of training a week...

Here‘s one .. A certain "Follow ME, Lads!" type was acting as Crse O for a Reserve ISCC at PPCLI Battle School Wainwright... tried to set a Battle School record for one of the ruck marches. (he did - most blisters and twisted ankles/knees in the MIR, most men ordered onto the truck, most men on...

"As a "leader of men", I don‘t care what equipment God gave you, so long as you can handle the equipment I give you." These were the words of one of the first instructors I had in QL2 - I have yet to find any exceptions to this rule.

I‘ll second combat_medic on this one. Cadets are associated with the forces, but are civilians (and usually underage civilians at that!). A CF member has as much authority over them as they would over any other underage civilian - practically none except under special circumstances. (Those...