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Rancid

I would check with the staff at your recruiting center. When I was applying, the only options for laser surgery were PRK and Epi-Lasik. Regular Lasik would have disqualified me from applying permanently. I'm no doctor, but from what I understand, with Lasik, an incision is made to the...

Recall

I have heard of the word Khawarij, they were a group of people that followed Ali, Muhammad's cousin and then abondoned him during the first Islamic civil war in the late 7th century. The words means "those who leave" in english, which is probably why your shaykh is using it for AQ, MB etc...

Que Hunt for Red October music.

1. You can always get in bagged with the transparent shopping bag like material they use to cover really big/unorthodox luggage. It was free for me. 2. You can pick up detergent from the 2 canex stores, no real point 3. I never use the stuff, doesn't really do much and it isn't Shilo 4. As...

Well is there anything else you'd rather be doing, maybe spending time with the wife?

So it took some time, some perseverance (asked around a lot and got to know a lot of NCM in the regiment) and patience but it looks like I will be getting loaded on DP1 and DP2. Unfortunately there are no other courses available to me, but at least I'm getting the most out of summer training

I'm currently in BMQ-L for PRes slated to be completed June 2nd, it looks like the next course would be DP1 but supposedly it's only 2 weeks long (Armour Recce) and it's in the middle of July. I almost never get 4 months off from work in the summer but I was able to negotiate a break between...

I recently started the BMQ course on weekends for the reserves, 3 weekends in and I have 2 Initial Warnings and am extremely worried about getting booted off the course. It is entirely my fault why I am in this situation, forgot to get slippers 2 weekends in a row and misplaced issued pen when...