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however since I was on a 3 yr BA, never had a chance to parade with them.
Did you request to be allowed to parade with a local unit? This is quite legal, and is not a problem if you have a reasonable RegF boss. The regulations (IIRC) do not prevent Class B from parading with a Res unit: what they prevent is a Class B being forced to parade with a unit other than the one they are employed with.
I do not demand any reserve unit take me, or employ me. On the contrary, I would never want to make the commitment to serve with them if I was not able to do so.
OK...welll...that statement is quite reassuring, but it is a bit different from:
I have never served with a reserve unit since being qual 23A, nor will I until they offer me a full time contract as I believe that the reserves role is to augment the Reg F and not to stay simply on stand by during a whole career (activation is nec to be a well rounded soldier).
Then you state:
I do not return to a civilian job because, I am not a tenager that attends school,
I don't get the exact connection here. However, I believe you are saying that you cannot obtain gainful civilian employment because you moved around to follow yor ex-spouse? OK-I can understand this, although plenty of military spouses seem to be able to do it. But now that you are not being moved around anymore (Class B Res cannot be posted against their will), why not try again to get affiliated wth a local unit? Once you are badged, if you need to move again, just go through your Res unit chain of command to apply for transfer to the nearest Res Inf unit in your new location. This is a very common practice, especially for Res who are in university.
One more question of interest: how is it that you are in an ARE position but employed on a RegF base? ARE positions, as far as I know, are not part of the CF Regular structure-they are allocated to the Army Res and controlled by the CLS, and most ARE positions are in Res units.
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