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If you want to join the reserve Infantry you will train one evening a week and one weekend a month. While you are on course you could train the entire summer or throughout the school year two weekends a month. Once you are a trained soldier you may apply to go on  a tour some where but it is up...

Your units orderly room should contact you when your offer of employment comes through. However don't leave this in the hands of someone else or you could be very disappointed. I know that in my unit a guy wanted to go pilot. The CF was short qualified people so the vision requirement was...

Thanks for the links. Cheers, Bloggins :cdn:

May be I am completely out of the loop but this is what army transformation seems like to me. Over the last few years my personal impression is that the CF has lost a significant amount of capability (pioneers, air defense, 155mm Arty, Tanks, moving LAV's from Bn's to CMTC etc..) and has tried...

As far as mission specific goes they will probably add some more. And as for the DAG's they are a necessary evil that will be time consuming. Other stuff that will probably be included after the war fighter phase of your work up will be things like foreign weapons and stand training where you...

I am not sure but isn't the tap water in Oakville not potable? Allot of regular force pers that get posted to the GTA are quartered in Oakville. Why anyone would want an ancient falling apart hand me down from good old Capt Canuck is beyond me. And this is Oakville we are talking about. If the...

I am in 32 Bde in LFCA. I don't know how it is usually handled in LFWA. However what the current direction for reserve augumentees on TF 0106 is the following. The home units are responsible to have all of the augumentees complete ELOC. Next the soldier will spend 2 weekends at the area training...

I think it's great having a unit in Mississauga. True the Lorne Scots have satelite Coy's around the city but I think one within is a good thing. Everyone would like it to be their own unit but at least it's an Infantry unit. I have been to the 'Armoury' and even though it was built for a Pl...

Calling the reserves to active service can only be accomplished by an act of Parliament. What was previously called the war measures act (ref FLQ crisis) now I am not sure what it is called. At any rate the Govt has to have declared war or marshall law to mobilize the reserve complete. At any...

I don't think that they will grant extensions. A friend of my is on his pre-training right now in Kingston for the next roto. The Golan doesn't generally have a problem getting nominations. Cheers. :cdn:

From my experience going on tasking to teach at and work as support staff at Leadership Coy in Pet and the Infantry school in Gagetown is usually a decent amount of work but really good times. For something a little less army taskings with the Canadian rangers usually turns out to be interesting...

Does any one know the PLD rate for Toronto? Cheers :cdn:

Toronto does have a large emergency services group that is trained and equipped to a certain level. What the CF could bring to the table is questionable based not only on our size, equipment and ability deploy.  but also on sustainment. The CF does have a regular force unit always on the list to...

The best advice I can give as a reservist for work up training is this. It may sound odd but make sure you can do telephone banking so you can keep up to date while your in Pet. Next find all of your kit as you will need to bring everything and make sure it is clean, marked and serviceable. Do...

For each promotion you do need a prerequisite amount of time in rank. And with the exception of Cpl you require a leadership course. As far as I know in the regular force you need three years time in as a Pte after completing DP 1 in order to be promoted to Cpl. After that you require PLQ and 2...

The important thing to remember with regards to mouthy kids is just that. They are young and feel that they are being outspoken. They think that it is being rebellious in a relavant manner. These children have either never been overseas in such an environment or left one at a very young age...

Hey Gagetown isn't bad for night life. The pub on base (Griffins) has okay food and is always a good starting point for a fun evening. Most of the good places are in Freddy town. Check out Hill top on Tues, other places in town that I thought were fun are; The James Joyce pub, Sweet waters and...

As for the locations of the various Battalions it is something that will make all the difference with regards to your quality of life. And at the end of the day that may play a vast role in your decision to stay in the Army. I have to tell you that I have never been to Edmonton. I hear it is...