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Canuck-Errant posted:e: comedy option: write a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen, they haven't published any angry screeds about VAC in months! MONTHS! You joke, but I am considering non-violent protest in order to get arrested and have "Veterans affairs have veteran looking for missing payment arrested" in the headlines.
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My Spirit Otter posted:You joke, but I am considering non-violent protest in order to get arrested and have "Veterans affairs have veteran looking for missing payment arrested" in the headlines. Before you go getting yourself arrested, do contact your MP and consider putting in a VEF app or talking to the Legion. I'd rather those funds go to someone who needs them than wind up as 'efficiencies' when March rolls around and the government decides they need to claw it back for whatever budget item needs paying for. Or worse.* Plus, maybe someday they'll actually fund staffing if we shovel enough money out the door * not for discussion in a public forum, since I'm technically still employed by the department
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Namaste. But I'd rather burn it to the loving ground
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Great, can't wait to file a report with the Military Police regarding a potential bomb threat.
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My Spirit Otter posted:Namaste. But I'd rather burn it to the loving ground bud if you came here to bitch then that's all fine and dandy but don't phrase your bitching in the form of a question
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My Spirit Otter posted:I needed the money 2 weeks ago, I'm doubly hosed in 2 weeks time and the ombudsman said everything was a-ok. My Spirit Otter posted:Namaste. But I'd rather burn it to the loving ground Can you loving not?
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If it were a Phoenix issue, CBC could fix your problem in three days! gently caress Phoenix, seriously. I'm still waiting for my last paycheque from a contract I finished over two years ago.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:If it were a Phoenix issue, CBC could fix your problem in three days! I know someone who hasn't been paid for uhh.. a while...
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MFers owe me several thousand in back pay from 2014 and 2015. It was supposed to be paid in Feb. Waiting on the class action grievance. Wish we on the civvy side had an ombudsman
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But then heads would roll and poo poo would get done 
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Uh my spirit otter you don't happen to live in the GTA do you?
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It's nice to read stories like these, it really reinforces the "gently caress you if you're still in" motto of GiP https://ottawacitizen.com/news/nati...ted-sex-assault tl;dr female soldier gets sexually assaulted, confides in fellow soldier who accompanies her to MPs, gives report. Raped soldier is considered "unreliable witness" and other soldier is blacklisted by his command, going all the way up to CDS.
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And that's how many years after that independent investigation by... I think she was a judge, but it concluded the CF is essentially a professional sexual assault training program, and the brass all fell over themselves saying they'll change? Hopefully PM Brownface purges some officers over this at least. poo poo's seemingly as endemic as ten years ago when WOs were throwing around slurs like we were down on the ranch in Alabama.
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MA-Horus posted:It's nice to read stories like these, it really reinforces the "gently caress you if you're still in" motto of GiP gently caress sakes. I can't believe they're trying to hang him with a travel claim of all things.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:gently caress sakes. I can't believe they're trying to hang him with a travel claim of all things. Lol before I read the article I thought you meant they were trying to get the rapey shitbird on a travel claim because MPs are too stupid to properly investigate a sexual harassment case. In hindsight I have no idea why I assumed the CAF was competent enough to try charging the right person.
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I mean, I've been out the better part of a decade and that story could have been written when I was in. At least they're doing the courtesy of actually "investigating" now and not just looking the other way entirely.
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First day of work yesterday, seems like a nice place to work. Hand nearly fell off from paperwork. I get the impression that there is potentially a lot more work available than the one night a week/one weekend a month deal.
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With the reserves once you get your foot in you can often get Class B or even C work depending on your unit and interests, although maybe not Class C so much now that Afghanistan is over with. Even as Class A you can still do a lot, you just need to make sure you don't work too many days in the training year.
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Reposting this from the Get Help thread. If you're feeling hosed up, use the CF Member's Assistance Program (CFMAP). I'm seeing a therapist through the program and it was a piece of cake to set up, and neither the base MIR nor my CoC have any information or knowledge of my therapy situation unless I decide I want them to. You can use it, your spouse/partner can use it, your kids can use it, all without needing you to be present. You can attend couples counseling with your spouse through the MAP. You can see short term therapy for if you're having problems focusing, addiction, grief, PTSD, can't sleep, anything that's giving you difficulty that isn't a physical ailment and isn't getting any better, call the MAP. Please call the MAP. "Crisis" is not necessarily an immediate thing - even if you're feeling hosed up long-term but you're able to manage to maintain an appearance of function, you may be in crisis. You don't have to struggle alone. Please use the MAP. CFMAP phone 1-800-268-7708 This line is manned 24/7/365, by a bilingual civilian agent. Please don't be afraid to ask for help. Calling costs nothing and nobody has to know if you don't want them to.
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Anyone here now eligible for something to put beside their CD thanks to BLINGFORGEN, as the cool kids have now taken to calling it? e. ALso do you think "Sergeant" Franck Gervais would have gotten away with it today in a post-beardforgen world? His facial hair is better than most of the ones I see. Guest2553 fucked around with this message at 14:57 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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Wasn't he wearing the infanteer sash on the wrong shoulder?
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The sgt sash was on the wrong side, yeah, among a litany of other things. Plus his beret still had the liner in it. So, y'know, junk troop.
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Just card people. Can't fake being a veteran when you can only get one by being vetted by the government 
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Just card people. Can't fake being a veteran when you can only get one by being vetted by the government "excuse me sir, i need to see a CFone card as proof you are a veteran"
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Canuck-Errant posted:"excuse me sir, i need to see a CFone card as proof you are a veteran" Its called a Veteran's Service Card and/or NDI 75, nerd. 
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Why yes I did pass BMQ and then quit my reserve unit, why do you ask
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Lassitude posted:Why yes I did pass BMQ and then quit my reserve unit, why do you ask Congratulations, here is your flashy piece of plastic with a photo of you on it.
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As someone who is bad about dress and deportment (terribad), I believe people should be able to dress however they want. From Stolen valour to CWO. Do what makes you feel good. This is why I'm a terrible NCO.
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Hizawk posted:As someone who is bad about dress and deportment (terribad), I believe people should be able to dress however they want. From Stolen valour to CWO. This is the style of leadership I want in my CoC
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 As long as your beret doesn't look like a muffin we can hang.
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Tilt your wedge to the RIGHT. It's why God gave you an EAR!  Edit: I kind of wish my day was spent shovelling snow in Newfoundland. Seems less stressful. mom and dad fight a lot fucked around with this message at 14:31 on Jan 21, 2020 |
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Tilt your wedge to the RIGHT. It's why God gave you an EAR! I'm sure Toronto will get enough snow to justify sending the army in again, one of these days imagine: LSVWs with snowplows welded to the front
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Lsvws clogging the streets of Toronto when they stall out trying to move 6 inches of snow 10 years later my hatred of those things is still strong.
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MA-Horus posted:Lsvws clogging the streets of Toronto when they stall out trying to move 6 inches of snow Such a pessimist. When the fuel-fired heaters catch fire, the burning diesel trails will keep the streets clear for hours - and the burning carcass will keep an intersection free of snow for days!
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Tilt your wedge to the RIGHT. It's why God gave you an EAR! Badge to the sky, hell yeah. That velvet strip inside is for grip! Also, for the love of god, pop some safety pins inside the folds or something for when the single loop of stitching inevitably bursts.
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Just buy a belgian beret and rip the lining out bing bong so simple now you don't look like a moron with an ear entirely covered like the americans
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I don't think wedgequette could ever make sense to non-RCAF pers. There's a rich history of perching your weird rectangular cap as far to the side as possible and sometimes walking out the mess with it backwards because you just plopped it on without looking.
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MA-Horus posted:10 years later my hatred of those things is still strong. i still get flashbacks about the two times i drove from shilo to wainwright and back in an LS MA-Horus posted:Just buy a belgian beret and rip the lining out   , in that order. Berets should be as close to yarmulke size as possible.Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I don't think wedgequette could ever make sense to non-RCAF pers. There's a rich history of perching your weird rectangular cap as far to the side as possible and sometimes walking out the mess with it backwards because you just plopped it on without looking. I kinda can't wait until my first DEU inspection of course. I have no fuckin clue how to wear the wedge and the tiny part in me that wasn't wrecked by the army's DRESS ANBD DEPORBTEMENT SOLJER, wants to wear it as badly as possible until someone who cares gives me a talkin to.
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My Spirit Otter posted:I kinda can't wait until my first DEU inspection of course. I have no fuckin clue how to wear the wedge and the tiny part in me that wasn't wrecked by the army's DRESS ANBD DEPORBTEMENT SOLJER, wants to wear it as badly as possible until someone who cares gives me a talkin to. 
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"Private Newbie! Get me a big mac and extra fries! Oh sorry that's a wedge on your head? I thought it was a burger hat! "
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