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Simkin posted:Anyone else going to be at CFSAC? We'll be the team there not wearing our sweet team baseball hats. Just got here yesterday, brought a crew of Rangers in.
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Hizawk posted:My cousin just finished Basic Military Officer Qualification and he's going RN. But, unfortunately he knows basically as much as you do about what it will be like. I can help answer questions you may have, but he probably does not know much. I'm wondering if reservists do their basic with other health professionals like other people have mentioned in this thread, or will it be with all groups? Not as though it matters, just curious.
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WOFOC posted:Just got here yesterday, brought a crew of Rangers in. The "Mad Minute" is nothing new, and those guys have probably been using SMLEs longer than I've been alive. But you're right, that they're able to maintain a rate of fire equal to that of a modern semi-auto assault rifle with a design that was considered second rate in 1914 is quite a feat. And you'll probably do your basic with people in all sorts of trades. Truck drivers, clerks, infantry, etc. Everyone gets the same BMQ/SQ.
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Sep 7, 2011 02:24
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WOFOC posted:Just got here yesterday, brought a crew of Rangers in. Which CRPG? CFSAC is now officially known as 'Came for Shwarmas and Coffee'
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There is this guy in one of my classes at Uni who introduced himself as "a drill instructor in the army" which I found hardly convincing because he was a short, noodly armed fat guy and a total sociopath to boot. He kept making vague references to the military culture throughout the class and was a total dick overall. I sort of want to call him out on his bullshit but I have little knowledge of the Canadian Forces. He said he was infantry, so he could have been in one of three (or two, since he doesn't speak French?) batallions, right? What rank would he need to have to be a "drill instructor"?
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Sep 13, 2011 00:22
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An RMC cadet.  Could be a Sgt, MCpl, or (I guess if they're really pressed for staff/he's a reservist) a Cpl. As with any organization, you'll run into a fair share of dicks, so maybe this guys is one. Just ask him what regiment he's with, and go from there. If he's reg force, there's only three regiments - Vandooooooo, RCR, and PPCLI. If he's a reservist, well, there's quite a few he could be from. Edit: Nobody ever specializes in drill in the CF, not unless they can help it. We don't have 'drill seargeants' it's just something that people get tasked with as part of running a course.
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Serendipitaet posted:There is this guy in one of my classes at Uni who introduced himself as "a drill instructor in the army" which I found hardly convincing because he was a short, noodly armed fat guy and a total sociopath to boot. He kept making vague references to the military culture throughout the class and was a total dick overall. We have drill instructors? Easiest way to call him out: ask him about Cadets, and which regiment he's from. In that order. Edit: ^^^ Yeah, exactly. I mean, there's one MCpl in my Res Sig Sqn who has a hardon for teaching drill on summer BMQs, but he's an exception. Canuck-Errant fucked around with this message at 01:51 on Sep 13, 2011 |
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Sep 13, 2011 01:49
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A couple weeks ago I got back from the two week orientation in St. Jean for Civi U ROTP. 3/4 of the days were spent on powerpoints, is that going to be the norm for BMOQ as well? Have to say though, it's pretty nice to get paid for sleeping in and crossing my arms in class.
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Sep 13, 2011 02:47
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MagicCube posted:A couple weeks ago I got back from the two week orientation in St. Jean for Civi U ROTP. 3/4 of the days were spent on powerpoints, is that going to be the norm for BMOQ as well? Have to say though, it's pretty nice to get paid for sleeping in and crossing my arms in class. Prepare for death by powerpoint
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Sep 13, 2011 02:50
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Yeah, eventually you even get to be on the other side, administering needless volumes of powerpoint!
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Simkin posted:Yeah, eventually you even get to be on the other side, administering needless volumes of powerpoint! That have been brainlessly modified and edited over the years so they're full of continuity, content, syntax and spelling errors...also Frenglish/franglais.
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Sep 13, 2011 04:55
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compressioncut posted:That have been brainlessly modified and edited over the years so they're full of continuity, content, syntax and spelling errors...also Frenglish/franglais. I swear, half the powerpoints I see still have the "Centre d'entrainement" background. Even the English voice procedure ones.
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Sep 13, 2011 17:03
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Cap, bmoq-l, is like 2/3 PowerPoint. Trade courses go different ways. Infantry is like 1/4 PowerPoint. The rest is weapons and field time.
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Sep 14, 2011 00:36
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Death by power point always sucked. One of my Sgt's use to make it better by showing us videos from Afghanistan or looking through this joke folder in his Email.
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Sep 14, 2011 00:53
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It's a caterpillar, trying to hump a french fry... get it? A french fry! 
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Serendipitaet posted:There is this guy in one of my classes at Uni who introduced himself as "a drill instructor in the army" Was never in the army, calling it now. This story sets off my Faker Boner.
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Sep 15, 2011 15:17
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I doubt any self-respecting Sgt or MCpl would ever refer to themselves as a "drill instructor", yeah. I definitely have a boner right now too and it's probably from that guy being a totally faker.
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Sep 15, 2011 17:32
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Fraser CDN posted:Death by power point always sucked. One of my Sgt's use to make it better by showing us videos from Afghanistan or looking through this joke folder in his Email. Be careful what you wish for, showing videos of explosions and motivational posters is like th number two time wasting strategy. Number one being remedial pt. If I had to decide between cool videos or pictures and an extra hour of sleep, I'd take the loving sleep.
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Anyone here a Construction Engineering Officer (formerly Airfield Engineering)? I'm thinking of applying, and wondering what the job is like on a daily basis in garrison, and in operations. Just for a little background, I'm a Cpl in the reserves who just graduated from an engineering program.
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Sep 18, 2011 03:40
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Hey Canadians, here's a song for ya. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXl_xzqIRgk
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Sep 18, 2011 03:50
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So, what exactly is the reason we can't claim haircuts on our taxes again?
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Sep 20, 2011 02:44
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mdivi posted:So, what exactly is the reason we can't claim haircuts on our taxes again? I'd like to know the same think about razor blades too.
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Sep 20, 2011 05:52
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My Spirit Otter posted:I'd like to know the same think about razor blades too. And boots. I'm learning Russian hardcore now because I hate knowing only one language and I don't think french is cool. Anybody know anything about embassy / overseas jobs where knowing a foreign language is a prerequisite? How many are there for Canadians? I already know about the extra points you get for the merit board, and in a year or two I am totally challenging their Russian test for it.
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Why don't you learn something useful considering our current and future operating environments like Arabic or Farsi or something?
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Sep 20, 2011 22:15
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Learn German, try and get posted over there.
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Fraser CDN posted:Learn German, try and get posted over there.
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Probably 0% but who knows. My brother is Strats and I know they send guys over there.
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Well, I got to see my discharge package for the first time. I wanted to double/triple check everything to make sure I didn't get hosed (as my regiment is want to do). Total time served: 6 years, 2 months (That's really about 6 months more than I actually spent but the extra time is how long the discharge took) Final rank/pay: Cpl(3) Transferred to Res B So basically if I ever decided to come back (laffo) I'd come back with my rank/quals intact, which is nice.
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Hizawk posted:And boots. I don't know much about it but all the Liaison Officers I've met have been just that - officers.
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Wait, are you saying that you want to be in the CF working in some embassy somewhere doing something? Is that a legitimate thing that some people do? I've never met any officers who get posted to some embassy as some kind of foreign affairs officer. Maybe it's just some trade that I don't know about or a major position or something. But I don't think that's really what we do in the military. Different NATO control centers, staging areas, NORAD, military type things abroad, sure. But not really random embassies.
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Sep 24, 2011 14:38
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The MP video on forces.ca made it seem quite a lot like you could wind up running a metal detector in Lisbon, actually.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The MP video on forces.ca made it seem quite a lot like you could wind up running a metal detector in Lisbon, actually. MPs with a close protection course can end up working security at any embassy apparently.
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Even without CP course, as an MP (Officer/NCM) you can end up with foreign postings. I work with an MP right now who was posted to Cuba for 5 years.
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Has anyone here done the CP course? Looks fun.
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And here I was thinking that being an mp was all about giving guys speeding tickets for going 53 on base and never solving drug problems in infantry units.
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tuyop posted:And here I was thinking that being an mp was all about giving guys speeding tickets for going 53 on base and never solving drug problems in infantry units. Well, those are the things they value most, but yea, they could do cool stuff.
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tuyop posted:Wait, are you saying that you want to be in the CF working in some embassy somewhere doing something? Every(or almost every) country that Canada has diplomatic relationship with will have a senior officer embedded in the embassy as a military attache. Its a great way to get failed/failing/terminal-rank Capt(N)'s and Col's out of the country for a while. A few of the senior officers in the airborne regiment served out the rest of their careers quietly in diplomatic roles after Somalia.
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Frankie! posted:Has anyone here done the CP course? Looks fun. Supposed to be really PT intensive. Borderline cansof selection
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Hey Ruse what kind of GiP patch did you want pt belt or no pt belt? I got to of each made and they're $10 a piece. They should be done on the 29th.
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Why hasn't anyone built a modular cigarette pouch? Something with hard sides and mostly waterproof about the size of a pack of regular cigarettes. Cp gear would make a mint.
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