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Simkin posted:If you're talking INFMN, then last I checked there was still plenty of intake. If you're going the officer route, INF is pretty much restricted to ROTP. Pilot had a lot of space left as well. I can get you more firm numbers when I move into my new job on the 16th as an MCC (military career counsellor) at a recruiting centre. Thanks for the info, I'm probably going to end up talking with a recruiter again soon so I'll just ask about what's actually open then, I was just hoping that there was a reliable way to check this sort of thing without needing to call/drive to a centre. And I know combat arms is probably a bad idea for a number of reasons, but their propaganda videos are the best 
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lollin at the thought that any recruiting video accurately represents its trade
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May 29, 2014 04:34
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Watch the Weapons tech one, tell me the sadness in his voice and face isn't real.
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power klawz posted:Thanks for the info, I'm probably going to end up talking with a recruiter again soon so I'll just ask about what's actually open then, I was just hoping that there was a reliable way to check this sort of thing without needing to call/drive to a centre. Combat Eng get to carry shotguns.
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May 29, 2014 23:01
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Carry? We have robot mounted shotguns motherfuckers.
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May 29, 2014 23:57
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I think we need to make a new recruiting commercial which just shows privates sweeping a warehouse, and people cleaning up other peoples poo poo. you know, army life.
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May 30, 2014 00:41
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Go outside and pick up garbage for a few hours. Then stand in the rain all night for some reason. Maybe look at porn at one point. Congrats you're combat arms.
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May 30, 2014 00:45
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Rubbing howitzers with dry rags for 8 hours
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May 30, 2014 00:58
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The MP one can just be a guy driving a cruiser around the same four blocks for nine consecutive hours like some kind of OCD hamster.
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May 30, 2014 01:20
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flakeloaf posted:The MP one can just be a guy driving a cruiser around the same four blocks for nine consecutive hours like some kind of OCD hamster. Dont forget buddyfuckin
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May 30, 2014 01:34
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Rubbing howitzers with dry rags for 8 hours And sweeping gunsheds.
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May 30, 2014 01:54
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Frosted Flake posted:And sweeping gunsheds. And re-re-repacking gun lockers.
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May 30, 2014 03:31
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I no poo poo polished polished 11 doors with 30 other soldiers for 3 weeks because they couldn't find anything else for us to do.
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May 30, 2014 04:17
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And you know when you're a JR and tell yourself when you're the boss you'll send everyone home if there's nothing to do? YOU DON'T, even though there's really no reason not to. But that feeling is just ingrained that someone wants to know where they are...or one of them is going to gently caress you over by getting hammered at a peeler bar at 1300 and driving drunk (which is also not going to happen, buuuuuut...). Guess it's called getting institutionalized.
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compressioncut posted:one of them is going to gently caress you over by getting hammered at a peeler bar at 1300 and driving drunk (which is also not going to happen, buuuuuut...). Haha yes it will.
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May 30, 2014 04:43
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Haha yes it will. Oh ya combat arms  The feeling seems to go away when you get a job with enough seniority but not too many pressing responsibilities. Typically a Major position from what I've seen (OpsO, STRO, something like that), but that still doesn't mean you let your guys go. You just disappear on the reg.
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May 30, 2014 05:22
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compressioncut posted:And you know when you're a JR and tell yourself when you're the boss you'll send everyone home if there's nothing to do? YOU DON'T Speak for yourself man.
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May 30, 2014 05:23
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I don't think all Combat Arms jobs are that boring though. I spent a fair bit of time as a field troop, which is the typical phonefest with nothing to do in garrison and we spent a lot of time sweeping parking lots, but at least for us once you specialize within the trade you're normally pretty busy. EOD guys get to gently caress around with robots and run scenarios, armoured engineers work non-stop on their tanks, us heavy equipment guys jury rig our ancient kit to keep it going and divers comb their hair and play grab rear end or something. I know personally I've been busy as hell this year, I've spent maybe 2 weeks out of the last year not on course, in the field or on leave. Oh and sweeping parking lots is just about the stupidest loving thing ever. gently caress that who cares it's a loving parking lot it's outgoddamnside and poo poo outside gets dirty. Every Friday there's 50 - 60 dudes sweeping the parking lots at the unit in the summer. Counterpoint to all that: summer hours and sports. Combat arms is 75% cock and 25% fun I'd say.
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May 30, 2014 06:10
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Navy-wise I've never seen parking lot sweeping (they're all 105% full during working hours anyway). Spending 2 hrs pretending to clean the same 6 x 10 hunk of space on a ship though... guess we just do the same on a smaller scale.
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May 30, 2014 06:48
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A friend of mine who was an OpsO in one of the CERs said 80% of his time was spent justifying gas chits during budget crunches so they could run their engineering vehicles. I also know another dude who had to mop a section of road after he was caught throwing some milk out the window in barracks. army.txt
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May 30, 2014 20:02
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What are those jet guys down to now? Like 80 hours a year? Yech. Probably still better than 408 Sqn's rates, but that's not saying much.
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MA-Horus posted:
Delayed response, but thank you. And actually I think I might have gotten than response from one of the junior officers. So has anyone else here ever stayed in the shacks at Connaught? I just finished BMQ there and, uh, I think they got re-condemned after the fire alarm tripped by accident in the middle of the night. We all thought it was a drill until we realized the girls' hadn't come out of their shacks, and then our NCO came out and was just as pissed as we were.
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Sixerfixer posted:Delayed response, but thank you. And actually I think I might have gotten than response from one of the junior officers. I've been there, number of years ago early when I had joined and doing a Class B over the summer, went there to put up the tents and poo poo like that for CIVSAC (I think? Shooting competition at Connaught). We didn't stay there long before getting booted out for one of the tents so that the shooting teams could have the rooms, probably for the best. Personally I only slept in the room once or twice, I just went home at the end of the day and came back in the morning. I think they condemn those barracks every few years, before opening up again. You're lucky though, that time was also back when there was a massive sewage problem so you couldn't use the toilets, they had blue rockets everywhere..hundreds of them baking in the blazing hot sun. I'm STILL pissed that when everyone else got to play around with some of the British weapons at the range on the last day, I and a few others had to tally the last batch of scores. They should've put us at the front of the line to squeeze some rounds off before going to do that.
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Is this still hanging framed in the mess? : The Ottawa Sun posted:
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FYI Connaught Range's shacks have been mostly condemned. EDIT: It's possibly its fully condemned now. There were a few weeks ago.
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Vadoc posted:I think they condemn those barracks every few years, before opening up again. You're lucky though, that time was also back when there was a massive sewage problem so you couldn't use the toilets, they had blue rockets everywhere..hundreds of them baking in the blazing hot sun. You might be pleased to know they've renovated the bathrooms... kind of. The good news for us was that the toilets were all relatively new and functional, and the showers at least didn't make you dirtier when you walked into them. The bad news about the toilets was that the plumbing was hosed, and often water would leak from the base of the units. Seriously, this place was never 100% clean no matter how hard we tried. Between the dust, the lovely toilets, and the incredible 2-week-long-downpour we had late April/early May it made for a helluva BMQ. Hizawk posted:FYI Connaught Range's shacks have been mostly condemned. I'm telling you man, it was that faulty fire alarm that did it. Toilets leak? Deal with it. Door frame is broken? Fix it. Fire alarm busted? Set up a fire picket! Fire alarm busts multiple times in the same night? Spend the night on the floor of the platoon classroom! Actually no joke that was probably the best night's sleep a lot of us had the whole course. Frosted Flake posted:Is this still hanging framed in the mess? : $3 is too much, and loving frankly who would -let- them sleep there, for their own good.
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Simkin posted:If you're talking INFMN, then last I checked there was still plenty of intake. If you're going the officer route, INF is pretty much restricted to ROTP. Pilot had a lot of space left as well. I can get you more firm numbers when I move into my new job on the 16th as an MCC (military career counsellor) at a recruiting centre. gently caress you so hard. I was told I was denied my request for a posting to Vancouver.
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Frankly a little surprised there wasn't a call out for volunteers to help with the floods in SK/MB, but I guess it's not spring anymore.
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Canuck-Errant posted:Frankly a little surprised there wasn't a call out for volunteers to help with the floods in SK/MB, but I guess it's not spring anymore. Well, they ramped up 1VP and 1 Svc from what I saw yesterday night. 3VP is on standby to standby. How many sandbaggers do you really need?
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CumshotCommando posted:Well, they ramped up 1VP and 1 Svc from what I saw yesterday night. 3VP is on standby to standby. How many sandbaggers do you really need? There's nothing more useful they could be doing? Helping to evacuate people?
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MA-Horus posted:There's nothing more useful they could be doing? Helping to evacuate people? Or replace the poor fuckers who have been sandbagging for the last however long.
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Or replace the poor fuckers who have been sandbagging for the last however long. Well, until a "state of emergency" and a formal request goes through, we just sit on our rucks and look cool. But Manitoba has just asked for assistance an hour ago, so looks like we'll be doing something more useful than playing with ourselves in Coy lines.
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Ya I didn't know how it works. All I know is the last time I had to sandbag it was straight off a month long exercise and morale was at an all time high
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More budget cuts. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/budget-2014-military-wings-clipped-again-1.2532827 http://ottawacitizen.com/news/natio...ong-term-impact and I guess I missed this one, but the CCV was canned. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/19/canada-military-armoured-vehicles_n_4475410.html Frosted Flake fucked around with this message at 18:30 on Jul 5, 2014 |
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Jul 5, 2014 18:28
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Dark Decade 2: The Sequel. Except The government still trying to push through billions of dollars worth of jets where they won't work properly, and still have no replacement for Seakings, and other aging military equipment long past their prime. Jets!
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Ultimate Shrek Fan posted:Ya I didn't know how it works. All I know is the last time I had to sandbag it was straight off a month long exercise and morale was at an all time high I hear ya. 2013? Ex NEVERENDING RAM?
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