Recent content by Oldarmyguy77

I have no idea how true it is, but there are rumours of an 18 percent pay raise coming soon on another thread. It seems noone seems to know if pld will be updated, or tossed out. This would be just my luck to posted a base with decent pld in July, after 20 plus years of postings with nil...

The standard of living is much higher on most U.S bases than in Canada. There housing is better kept, they have full shopping, medical care for dependents and much larger discounts than the C.F. The qs on some of our bases that are not newly renovated are in such poor condition that low...

The issue we have with career managers is that are always people who play the system to get what they want on the backs of others. We have people who use tactics like refusing all postings, and delaying a promotion for a year because they know a better position is coming up next posting season...

We have a few ex military working on base at our unit. They basically do the same job, and only need to show up in person at work twice a month. I don't think any of them regret releasing from the cf.

The trade I work in is very slow for promotions. You need to have three right dress pdrs to even get on the merit board. If your boss decides not to write you up as a god. forget any chance of career progression for above five years.

I'm an old guy, with almost two decades in, and I've seen the quality of life greatly diminish over the last few years. Military salaries have not kept up with inflation, and if you are a basic cpl with no spec or feild pay, expect to clear around 3000 a month give or take a bit, maybe add a...

Well its I interesting that so worried about fraud I  the CAF. Most of us veterns who have been waiting have huge medical files that are backed up with physio, specialist!, and many of is have had surgeries. I have had three.  If we finally do get approved the government will nickel and dime...

I made my claims 18 months ago . Guess it's like pld that  is 12 years old... Can you imagine if the those m.ps up in Ottawa had to wait 12 years to get a small meager increase of living expenses? 23 years in dude...

Dude I'm  broken. I'm 43 years old and have been seving 23  arthritis , knees, and so many other things wrong with me at this point. I have put in my claims in March 2019 .  Yeah still waiting  in stage 3. But the government  can piss out all these money to everyone  else . It makes me mad. I...