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RCD vs. LdSH (RC)

I agree withTCBF.

    The only difference between regiments is the regimental life (do they still call it Family) and experiences. Your career courses will be the same no matter where you go but your experience's will differ.
I would to the 12 RBC route for the french aspect of it. Remeber you will not make it unless you are bi-lingual and this is the easiest way.

I agree with his opposite sex theory, they are a bit more cultured.

It is in the geographic center of eastern Canada (to all those Torontonian's out there, you are still the center of the universe)

Out west is a bit over rated.....(godness I wish I was back there :-[)
 
2Bravo said:
When you clear into F104 you should wear your DEU.  Introduce yourself to the CO's secretary and ask to see the Adjt.  Bring your CADPAT along and change after coffee before heading down to the Sqn lines.  Your will have received your accoutrements at the badging but make sure you stop by AO HQ Sqn to settle your officer's fund account.  We have at least one Cent Room happy hour a month and coffee everyday at 0900 after PT. 

Cheers,

2B

;)

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 


Thanks again everyone for sharing with me their opinions.  I am actually seriously considering 12e.  I was thinking though, as I'm going to be a subbie, I am going to make typical mistakes, and maybe I should get comfotable in my early years in an english regiment and then, as many of you said I would get posted around, look to do 12e after.  Being from Pembroke (on the Quebec border) I already have a very good grasp on french, enough that I could get by and carry out everyday conversations.  I realize that my french will have to get a lot better, however SLT should help me, and I plan on taking night courses after all my ROTP is done.
 
Quag,
you should not worry all that much about making mistakes as a young subbie.
matter of fact, if you don't, you're not trying hard enough. :)

12RBC (Recce), 5RALC (Arty) & 5RGC (Engr) have a fairly large anglo population.
They do very well - Multi national operations work in the most common language (guess) and you'd be worth your weight in gold....

Young Subbies have a talent for making a grand entrance and being noticed by the boss. (Was at a conference when an Int 2Lt tried to squeeze past the Area Comd with overfilled coffee cup in hand. He ended up spilling the works on all of the General's papers & his pant leg - the General knows exactly who 2Lt Smith is)

Your choice - but you should not sweat the language thing - it isn't an issue.
 
Gunner said:
Allan, it was I who said it and you are comparing apples and oranges. 

Your Regiment is manned according to its organizational structure (with or without the SMT).  Therefore, the SMT is not a drain on the Regiment's "operational" resources.  Moreover, the SMT provides an excellent opportunity for young soldiers to conduct an "ERE posting" and do something differently.

In essence, you get rid of the SMT and you also get rid of the 17 PY's and you sentence young troopers to years of Regimental service with no chance of doing something different.  I'm surprised you don't understand this.

If you want to look at it this way: fair enough. I don't. I lived the life (in the Regiment), and yes, it is a good place for people to go for a break. Not a place for people to go to die.

I have to use a certain amount of veiled speech, as the SMT is a very sensitive subject (as it generates a lot of cash/publicity/prestige for the Regt). There was a time when the soldiers did indeed have a secondary role (while employed in SMT), but that went away, and then it became a full-time job. As for many things in life, people start to feel a sense of entitlement, as opposed to a sense of gratitude, for the good go's. Many people view it is a birthright, not a priviledge, to get the break that is Mounted Troop, and it creates a goodly amount of friction for those that don't get the jammy go. Or want the jammy go.

Anyway, I have my issues with Mounted Troop, and I don't feel like getting into a major pissing contest with someone who may or may not understand where I am coming from, but suffice it to say, I am not the only one who feels the same way on the subject. Pop by the stables and shovel shit if it turns your crank. It's not my bag.

Al
 
It would appear the young lads and lassies of the PS2 generation are not joining the SMT with their usual a-la-cri-ty.  Some sort of rude awakening when they discover that:

1.  The job is 24/7: no on/off switch on a horse.
2.  The job has a certain learning curve that must be matched.  Sure, you can drink coffee in 'The Trackpad' and and say "I gots skillz" to your homies, but your horse will know you are bullsh_tting, and will dump you in front of 5,000 spectators.
3.  You better like horses, because you may not be surrounded by quality human beings.  In this day and age of tours to the sandbox and fat broken Troopers, CTC is not the only dumping ground ...

Tom
 
Allan, fair enough, but the take away is the SMT does not take PYs away from the unit in the general sense (for instance, the hockey teams of old).  You could certainly argue from a macro perspective in terms of cost benefit analysis vis a vis the SMT as an attraction tool.  

 
If you could definitively prove that it actually drew recruits.  Their moms and dads love it, but I have yet to hear a Leo Gunner tell me they joined because of the horses.
 
TCBF said:
If you could definitively prove that it actually drew recruits.  Their moms and dads love it, but I have yet to hear a Leo Gunner tell me they joined because of the horses.
I did Tom!  All 1600 of them (or was the 850.....anyway.....a whole bunch).  And they were Supercharged too.   ;D
 
830 for the Leo.  You would have to tell ME about the Centurian.

;D
 
reccecrewman said:
What about the Ferret George?  ;D

Wonder if it's still in one piece....haven't seen it since I last drove it back in June....

Regards
 
Never ever played in the Ferret, like Franko, who has the most recent opportunities.  I have heard all the stories of it being able to sneak up on Sentries, etc. and I have witnessed its' bigger brother the Fox up close and personal in Fallingbostel while on Fire Picket. 

As has been said, in this Topic, all the training you will get to become an officer will be standardised by the various Schools in St Jean and Gagetown.  It will be after you get to a Regiment that you will be introduced into their "Regimental Way" of doing things.  Each Regiment will be different, but the jobs they perform in the Corps should land up being the same.  Each Regiment will tell you they are better than the rest, etc. and that shows that they have developed a 'Family' and esprit de corps.
 
"Each Regiment will tell you they are better than the rest, etc. and that shows that they have developed a 'Family' and esprit de corps."

- Well, good Regiments don't TELL you, they SHOW you, for when all is said and done, much is said and little is done.

Beware the unit that spends it's time boosting it's own bravado by denigrating other units: a sure sign of a dysfunctional climate of command shaped by mal-formed personalities of deficient character.

Tom
 
See now Tom......You guys in the 'S' Regiment, (Traditional turn of head and spit into.........what no spittoon.....the Horror.....) must realize that it is all in fun.  ;D
 
It's all in fun for us because we know the score.  You get a lot of young guys - and not so young who are just plain inbred - who've never BEEN anywhere and go shooting their mouths off about stuff they don't know.

But, thats all part of being young, dumb, and full of c_m.

Tom
 
TCBF said:
You get a lot of young guys - and not so young who are just plain inbred - who've never BEEN anywhere and go shooting their mouths off about stuff they don't know.

But, thats all part of being young, dumb, and full of c_m.

Tom

Ouch................ Now that hurts. Rather uncalled for.  Fact of the matter is, the bulk of our young Troopers have been on a tour, with the exception of the newbies we just got in the fall, but they will go, if not this August, then next February.  As for them shooting their mouths off.... well, I'll give you that.  I had one new Trooper try telling me that he's a big game hunter yesterday. He has a .45 semi-automatic hunting rifle. He couldn't think of the manufacturer when I questioned him though......... He also looked rather confused when I asked him to see his FAC for this weapon...........  ::)
 
"Ouch................ Now that hurts. Rather uncalled for. "

- - What?  I was speaking in general terms.  Non-regimental, non-corps, non-specific.
 
D'OH!  :brickwall: You were, weren't you.............. My sincerest apologies to you........  Certainly glad I didn't post anything rash.  ;D
 
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