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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Qualified for both my chosen trades on the aptitude test today. So excited! Congrats. You will now be forced into the trade you desire least.
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So it looks like I'm heading into my second consecutive year of "oh your medical expired time to re-do your medical" and then the results are processed juuuuuuusssstttttt in time to be two days after the one selection of the year where my trades hire. Oh life, you card.
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May 29, 2013 04:48
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Canadian Forces.txt right there. Sorry to hear that. What trade are you looking for?
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May 30, 2013 03:14
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AEC is the only one that's left hiring for this year. Hoping I can bust rear end and get my bloodwork back in time that I can at least have hope. Adding ACSO in the near future and it's sort of amusing to hear the RC staff mention the 70% fail rate like 6 times in one conversation.
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May 31, 2013 03:59
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I keep hearing AESOP is the best enlisted trade. A lot of guys at the regiment want to switch over to that down the line. I talked to the Sikorsky reps at CANSEC and they said that the CH-148 would have a Tactical Coordinator in addition to the AESOP, does anyone know what that means? e: Here's the C7A3 at the Colt Canada booth. One-piece receiver and free-floating barrel. New handguard and magazine as well. 
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May 31, 2013 12:31
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Frosted Flake posted:
The TACCO is what we call the ACSOs in the MH community. IIRC the term's a holdover from the old Naval Air days. But yeah, there's apparently going to be 2 of those on the unicorns, up from the 1 we're using right now.
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May 31, 2013 14:01
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Frosted Flake posted:I keep hearing AESOP is the best enlisted trade. A lot of guys at the regiment want to switch over to that down the line. Ugh that phone's camera lens is so greasy! Oh yeah, cool gun looks cool!
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May 31, 2013 14:49
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Frosted Flake posted:e: Here's the C7A3 at the Colt Canada booth. One-piece receiver and free-floating barrel. New handguard and magazine as well. Now we just have to wait and see what mods we can put on it...
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Jun 2, 2013 22:53
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CumshotCommando posted:Now we just have to wait and see what mods we can put on it... You won't have to worry about it. That thing won't be seen in our lifetime
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Jun 2, 2013 23:16
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Re-interview and medical scheduled for my DEO Pilot application for next Tuesday! One more step closer to re-attempting Aircrew Selection!
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Jun 3, 2013 14:43
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After 15 years of botched project management we've finally selected a replacement for our ancient fleet oilers: The Berlin Class. Nice for an oiler but it has none of the all singing all dancing RORO / Sea Lift / Army Barracks / Command platform stuff that the Navy had been pushing for. Granted I know why they went the way they did (Too ambitious from the start, not nearly enough money and an unwillingness to settle for 2). Still, what a disappointment.
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Jun 3, 2013 19:08
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Not at all telling that the things are built to take Sea Kings. Not at all.
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Jun 3, 2013 19:53
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I think most people are just glad there's now an actual ship that goes with the vague timelines for AOR replacement. That said it also makes you wonder why it took 15 years of procurement nightmare just to settle on an existing design.
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Jun 4, 2013 10:54
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Sir John Eh posted:Not at all telling that the things are built to take Sea Kings. Not at all. We unironically celebrated their fiftieth year of service earlier.
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flakeloaf posted:We unironically celebrated their fiftieth year of service earlier. There's a big party about it in Shearwater at the end of July, to boot.
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Jun 4, 2013 16:03
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Sir John Eh posted:Not at all telling that the things are built to take Sea Kings. Not at all. Well, the Sea King replacement is about the same footprint as a Sea King, and the NH90, which is really what the Berlin is designed to carry. At least that helicopter program can provide some comfort that we're in good company with other suckers in defence procurement (who isn't these days?). But the Germans did buy that lovely helo instead of our lovely helo...  Fifteen bucks for a Sea King 50th patch. I don't think so.
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Wow, fifty years of service? Sounds like the Sea King is a solid, reliable piece of machinery!
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Getting our money's worth. Just like the Americans with their UH-1s and B-52s and EC/KC-135s. While there's still spares, keep them in the air.
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It's really fascinating to learn to fly that thing. Moving to it from anything else really makes you appreciate the scope of the engineering involved, seeing as it's built entirely without the magic computer boxes that anything else has. Though not having a GPS certified for navigation is a little on the annoying side, seeing as NDBs are rapidly falling out of favour. Honestly, if we'd devoted any of the money from the Cyclone into modernizing the avionics and sensor/sonar packages on the Sea King, it almost wouldn't need a replacement. The flying part of it still works really, really well.
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Yup that's the feeling I get from the community (well, pilots anyway). I take it you're at the OTU.
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Jun 5, 2013 06:10
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I'm due for my second hook this fall, but want to go AESOP. Will putting in for a transfer block my promotion? Does anyone know about the selection and training process? e: Is getting CP Det member a good course or should I stay with the guns?
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Jul 1, 2013 18:45
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Your bombers are entirely up to your chain of command, so if they're cool chances are they won't block it, but if you're at 4 years in you have to get your bombers. Barring a huge gently caress up on your part. I've had buddy's who've taken the CP Det course and they've all said it was fun. You get off of the guns so thats a big plus in my book,
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I suppose it all depends on what guns you're getting off and where you want your career to go. If your only aspiration is to be a No1 then it's up to you.
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Ya if you want to be a no. 1, for some deranged reason, don't go off the guns.
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http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/news-nouvelles/news-nouvelles-eng.asp?id=4880 So apparently the Officers are in fact getting their pips and crowns back, and divisions are replacing the LF Areas. What is a Canadian Army Secondary Badge? And by shoulder titles do they mean kind of like the cadets where instead of saying "CANADA" itll say "Canadian Army" on the DEUs?
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Jul 9, 2013 01:24
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swagger like us posted:http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/news-nouvelles/news-nouvelles-eng.asp?id=4880 11 new ranks designations that I will never remember and be tersely reminded of for the rest of my career...great. Am I really going to have to call Air force privates "Airman" and "Airwoman" at some point in the near future? Oh goody.
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Jul 9, 2013 01:31
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So absolutely nothing changes for the Army save for divisions? Who gives a gently caress? Seriously, why is this change occurring? Are there not more important issues to address in today's forces?
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Jul 9, 2013 02:22
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MA-Horus posted:So absolutely nothing changes for the Army save for divisions? Is it still Kosher to say that maybe Unification had long term benefits that compensated for the short term harm? On a serious note I wonder if all these recent name change related items this could be part of a plan to create distance between the three elements.
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swagger like us posted:http://www.forces.gc.ca/site/news-nouvelles/news-nouvelles-eng.asp?id=4880 Glad to see that while the CF is facing constant delays on equipment modernization, the leadership is focused on what really matters. Like a bunch of of loving magpies, I swear.
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MA-Horus posted:So absolutely nothing changes for the Army save for divisions? This was my response, exactly. My Air Defense buddy was INCREDIBLY excited about it, though.
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tuyop posted:This was my response, exactly. Hahahaha you have a friend in AD. That poor bastard.
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I had a buddy that finished his QL3 for field arty got sent to an AD unit to bolster the numbers or something and then made him do the AD QL3. So he was regular field artilly then got sent with the bird gunners. I felt bad for him.
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MA-Horus posted:Hahahaha you have a friend in AD. That poor bastard. At least this change gives him something to be excited about, so that's great I guess! 
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Both fields of artillery have been using Gunner and Bombardier as official ranks since their inception.
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Pufflekins posted:Both fields of artillery have been using Gunner and Bombardier as official ranks since their inception. He's an officer.
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Jul 9, 2013 23:19
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Are they gonna wear shoulder boards or is it gonna be just chest like regular. Because that makes me wish I was still in so I could piss off majors by calling them warrants.
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Anyone remember that Master Bomber from CFLRS that taught weapons, he had arms like tree trunks. I think he got his rocks off from jacking people up for calling him Master Cpl.
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Fraser CDN posted:Anyone remember that Master Bomber from CFLRS that taught weapons, he had arms like tree trunks. I think he got his rocks off from jacking people up for calling him Master Cpl. That's every master bomb.
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Fraser CDN posted:Anyone remember that Master Bomber from CFLRS that taught weapons, he had arms like tree trunks. I think he got his rocks off from jacking people up for calling him Master Cpl. I know exactly who you are talking about...Hispanic guy right? He seriously spent half the classes talking about how he had all these university degrees and other delightful stories about how awesome he was... He randomly walked up to our platoon one fine summer day in 2008 and told us for no apparent reason that he just lost his shirt in the stock market crash...kind of an odd fellow.
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