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Apart from personal reasons, why would someone CFR?  Is there that much of a difference in pension / other benefits?  I met an MWO recently who was going to be CFRed.  There would be no loss in pay obviously, but why give up that rank to become another run-of-the-mill captain?  I also recently...

First off, I agree with everyone else here that says that 31 is far from being too old to join the reserves.  I was 40 when I rejoined.  I left the reg force in 1989 and rejoined in the reserves back in 2006.  Because of my long hiatus I was required to take the BMQ course again.  Physically...

I might get flamed for this, but I think 'kinder and gentler' does have a place.  The physical abuse i endured in 1986 made me a stronger man (actually it made me a man) but I'm not sure that this model works now.   Ah, crap...  In the time it took me to write the above sentence i realize that...

Mr. Wallace: You wrote "Guess it is time to dig deep into your pockets and get another, grander pole to fly your flag.  She can keep the old, stubby one." I wish that were the case.  The bride always gets her way.  That's some rule of marriage.  Her flag of preference is usually something...

The whole thing about rank seems to have changed in the past 20 years.  I went through BMQ 8641 at Cornwallis and was taught that senior rank people were to be treated with utmost respect.  That served me well right up until I pulled the plug and left for civvie street and back to school. ...

I searched, but can’t find anything.  (actually, the fact that the word ‘flag’ wasn’t found leads me to think that the search engine may be knackered.  And I have no idea where to post this.  It doesn’t seem to fit anywhere.  I’ll throw myself on the mercies of the site admins.  My question is...

To be honest, and as a civvie lawyer, I haven't figured out what what exactly is covered.  I thing the bottom line is the same: nothing is changed. 

Thanks for the answer Grinch.  I searched here and didn't find anything re my question. 

Just my opinion, but this and similar provincial legislation is just window dressing.  My reason for this opinion is that most legislation protects reservists when serving operationally but ignores protection when the reservist has to train to become eligible for an operational posting.  A smart...

I once read that the RCMP has status as a CF regiment with the right to carry a standard, but I've also read that this isn't the case since some members were absorbed during some conflicts and that was all.  I done some (liimited) research and the evidence is conflicted.  Any thoughts? 1) Is...

That's what I hoped the answer would be.  Thanks.  I only ask because I had a bad experience with winter/summer dress once.  On a very warm (25 degree) Nova Scotia October day I dressed in summer dress to visit the BOR.  Someone finked on me and I was promptly called into the BCWOs office and...

I only write this because I don't think I really should be wearing the LFC badge.  As I recall from my former Reg Forces days, the command badge is the command from which you take direction.  I was as an Air trade, so I wore the air badge.  It obviously made more sense to purple trades to...

I searched for an answer to this but found none. I have to be in Ottawa next week and have a question about the Canex jacket.  Is that for summer dress only?  Next week in Ottawa probably won’t be cold and the required dress for the meetings I’m in are DEUs with the sweater.  But what if it is...

I’ve searched the site and found some vague references to this, but not an answer to this specific question.  I’ve asked it to several people and the answer is pretty much evenly split.  Is the insignia on the CADPAT nametags used to denote an MOC or a Command?  I don’t ask this to sound stupid...