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Hello, I'm also a current AVS tech.

To my knowledge, the Aurora course is done in Greenwood, NS. I'm not too sure how long the course is. But I imagine it's probably a few months.

ATIS QL3's are approx 3 months long (or should I say short, compared to my QL3's which are nearly 9 months long) and take place in Kingston.

Honestly, focus on the math. Be able to do math without the use of a calculator. I finished POET back in February and I went into it without any background knowledge on electronics. Hell, I didn't even have a background in physics! I made it through without failing a single test. You'll be fine...

Yes you can. Lots of guys have full tower PCs plus gaming consoles in their rooms.

Could be over a year, but like I said, they've made a lot of improvements with increasing the number of courses they run, as well as increasing the number of students on course. It's not nearly as backlogged as it used to be. You may be able to get a PMQ if you're common-law, but it will all...

AVN QL3 course is not 14-15 months. It's about 6 months plus there is a short 3 months course you do before Called Common Core. IT might actually be less than 3 months now. I believe they've cut out at least a week or two from the course. CFSATE has made a lot of improvements, particularly with...

Well apparently that changed and it seems they may be going back to the old way of doing things. Up until a few weeks ago here in Borden you only needed a memo if you wanted to live off base while on course, not for the PMQ's. I know of a few people who got a PMQ within the last 2 months and...

There are a lot of PMQs empty here in Borden, but for whatever reason they take forever to process everything. I've been waiting since early February for my PMQ. I know there's been a lot of policy changes lately. Before you just had do the application form and that was it. Now you need to write...

Yea, Air Force kit list is basically just your uniform&DEUs. They will issue you a set of coveralls when you get on course and you will have to get steel toe boots from the QM. Have "fun" in Borden when you get there. Hopefully PAT platoon has gotten better by then.

As I stated in my original post, the refugees are not moving into our shacks. Instead they're shuffling everyone around on base from one building to another. The people who are giving up their shacks to the refugees are taking over our building, which is full of people(approx 130-150) currently...

Some people were told last Friday they had a week to move out. Myself and a bunch of others on course were just told today to be ready to move out by Wednesday. The weird thing is the refugees aren't even moving into our shacks. They're going elsewhere on the base. So the reason for us to move...

If you are married or common law, you only need to write a memo about living off base. I know of 3 people currently on poet who are not living in the shacks but with their spouses and children. The inspections are done when you're not around, but sometimes they will decide they want to do a...

Pt varied. Some days it was really hard, other day weren't too bad. It will all depend on  your staff. But they like to keep it consistent.

Well I survived bmq. Just finished my final week of training at Farnham. It was a tough week, not gonna lie. The sleep deprivation sucked and some people really didn't handle it well at all. But we did well as a platoon and our staff rewarded us for that. So even though we froze our butts off...

I'm in the home stretch now! Just finished up week 10! Going back to Farnham on Monday for a week of hell. It's going to be flipping cold the first 2 days, which will be when we're in tents... these past few weeks have just flow  by. I'm still finding it hard tk believe I'm almost done! It's...

I chopped mine off (pixie cut). So much easier to deal with; it's just easier to maintain. There are some girls on my platoon who have long hair, but it seems like such a hassle. Also depending on your staff, some may give you shit if you have any stray hairs sticking out of you bun/braid. As...

Our staff has an entertaining/humiliating way of teaching people a lesson about shaving. With us, if you're caught not shaving it's a swipe and for x# of days they have to report to the office in the morning (w/ their fireteam partner) and shave in front of our staff.

like paleomedic said, it depends what type of platoon you are. From my experience/observation at BMQ, if you have a lot of air force and/or tech trades in your platoon there's a good chance you will be a "hollywood" platoon. And sometimes you're a little of both. My brother who went through BMOQ...

Trust me, when you're at BMQ you don't have time for anything else.