Media is now mining internet forums for blurbs to put into stories.
I remind everyone again to watch what they say and who they PM with.
Scott
Staff
Scott, I for one find myself contributing less and less to debates here for fear of the media boogyman coming by and taking my quotes and splashing it all over the news.
Is it at all possible for army.ca to (consider) setting something up where as all users need to register with the site before reading a single line where upon during registration they read a user agreement and it can state something along the lines that no comments on army.ca can be republished without the expressed consent of the author?
Hi, I've been exploring reserve occupations that can accommodate working people who can't take summer courses due to work/lack of vacation. I'm not in a position where I can take 6 weeks off. It's either weekend training, modular training or changing/quitting jobs to make the reserves happen.
So far, I've only found two occupations that could accommodate a typical job (assuming schedules align):
I've nixed some trades such as cook, vehicle tech and med tech due to the need to take summer courses.
Since information about training in the reserves is hard to come by (I'm working off the 2009 army individual training calendar plus this site), can anyone else recommend possible trades where DP1/DP2 can be accomplished outside of summer courses? Feedback on their experiences in taking the non-summer courses would be appreciated. Thanks!
(I wish I had known more about the reserves when I was a student!)
hello everybody, havn't been on the site in some time, I tried looking for this but didnt find any threads on the concern.
I do believe a soldier on leave can attain low cost accommodations by staying on a military base. CFB Edmonton hands out rooms for about 16 bucks a night. Ive never used this benefit and dont know a whole lot about it, but was wondering if our neighbours down south extended a similar courtesy to our soldiers and vice versa.
You see, i got a sister who's helping the disabled down in Atlanta, GA. and I thought it would be mighty sweet of me to make my way down yonder to see her this March. If Ft. McPhearson had some sort of transient quarters, It'd make the trip a whole lot more affordable, and be a source of interest as i have never before seen how the US runs their army bases.
If anybody had some knowledge to share on the subject i sure would be grateful
I was reading an article on how Afghanistan has turned the Canadian Army into a much more "air mobile" force, this means helicopters (I believe). I am not sure about the date of this article as I was just browsing the web. Also, not too long ago I watched an army news report on how engineers and artillery were for "the first time in many years" forming their own jump troops. My question is how many engineers and artillerymen are actually involved in air mobile and paratrooper training and operations? is it just a small amount of hype or has there been a large change towards air mobile/paratrooper operations among the combat arms (other than infantry)? What is the purpose of having engineers and artillery included? are the engineers there for building/demolitions or breaching minefields/recon or are they simply acting as infantry for the most part? Do the artillery bring mortars with them or are they acting as infantry as well?
And another related post that may or may not be considered radio chatter (please correct me if this is the wrong place to put these questions) How do you feel about this change? What do you all think it means for the future CF?
