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Problem with that is that you'd start artificially selecting for smarter politicians, which may not be a good thing.  :)

Army Supply is generally run by contractors, whose sole purpose is to make clearing CIF hard, or so I like to think, but KIAs follow a different process.

The problem with TDB is that there's enough truth in their articles that you really have to think about it sometimes. It really throws civilians off. My mom's raged about articles from TDB. See also, "Army S-1 Admin Paperwork Mishandled: Hassan receives sex change, Manning receives death penalty."

I figured as much. Getting a full-time slot in the Reserves or Guard in the US is much the same way. As for moving around and being stationed elsewhere in the world, I'm more or less used to that by now. I'm from Texas, but I haven't spent more than a month in Texas in the last three years.

That's the correct field. I figured trades like that would be comparable. I appreciate you listing them out. I would probably lean towards Int. Op., as that's the bulk of my experience, but I'm not above branching out into other things. Half my time in the military has been spent doing common...

My wife and I talked about it a bit more and she figures she might as well complete the US citizenship process before we pull the trigger on a move anywhere, so I'll likely reenlist in the TX Guard for another six years. I'd only be 32 at the completion of that, and still young enough to hack...

Ah, thanks for the correction there. I'm a 35-series in the TX Guard, which I think you guys roll up into one MOC (Intel Op.). The sticking point there is that I seriously doubt Canada would grant a Top Secret clearance to a permanent resident, so my background may be less relevant that I'd...

I've been leaning towards active duty, actually. I really have no profession outside of government service, but were I to go reserves, probably Ontario. My wife's from Guelph.

I figure you're right though. Recruiting's going to have to run this one to ground for me in the end. We'll see what happens. Thanks for the help.

Well, that makes it even clearer. Is there a list of low-density MOCs someplace for me to consult, or is that information normally restricted to recruiters? You're pretty good at finding this stuff. Sorry if I'm making you do all the leg-work here. I'm pretty terrible at forums.

Thanks. From that thread I picked up this post in particular: "Generally speaking, you need to be a Canadian Citizen to be enrolled.  Exceptions do happen but normally only in cases where the individual applying possesses prior military service and specialized training from a Commonwealth or...

I appreciate the link, but looking at it, it's geared primarily towards Canadian reservists. I'm a US reservist. It appears one of the links is a program where I guess reservists from Canada could do their training requirements with a US unit, which is pretty cool, even though I've never seen...

Howdy, I'm a Texas National Guardsman, and was fortunate enough to marry a Canadian back in 2011. She misses home quite a bit, and we've always half-joked about moving to Canada. Basically what I'm looking for is a path to enlistment, so to speak. This is still purely hypothetical for me...