OK buddy, how about you give this sergeant’s phone number, as I don’t have a Thunder Bay phone book handy. The Recruiting Centre down here in Windsor suggests differently. I’d like to talk to Sgt Rasmussen to see if things are different up there. By the way, a friend in Ottawa who, for reasons that are none of your business, can’t get involved in this brought your post to my attention because I am a moderator on this site. My questioning your post isn’t a personal thing. If you are just passing on information you were given, fine, mention that as well. These cases are viewed individually.
By the way, just because someone wants to join doesn’t give him or her the right to. They can to apply but there are certain things this job demands and a person must be physically able to do them.
Good luck with your tests and if you suck at sit-ups, work harder. The other people in whatever unit you get into will want results, not excuses. This is a performance-orientated job; no one cares why you can’t do something, only that you can’t do it.
Now the comment that “If a guy with flatfeet wants to join, then he has every given right to do so. Not you nor anyone else like you could stop him.” I took a quick scan of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the right to be in the army wasn’t there, so who gives them the right? Now the comment that me or anyone else like me couldn’t stop someone from joining isn’t exactly accurate, now is it. You have no idea about anyone on this board, what he or she does or whom he or she does it for. And I’m willing to bet that you know jack**** about me and what I’m “like”. So when you are stating things as fact, keep your opinions out of it or at least report them as your opinions and let others draw whatever conclusions from it that they will.
