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  1. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Even though I still havn't redone my AJLC, I did pass the CAF PLQ semi-recently.  The combined one isn't hard as long as the staff don't go out of their way to fail people which I doubt you'll see in Halifax simply because the Navy/Air seem more focused on running the course as a leadership...
  2. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    I think for me a little of both?  If a supply tech is doing a recce, something terrible has happened at the pointy end.  I'd love to see it tackle common tasks in the current battlefield.  Instead of Recce's and section attacks which I believe (Someone offer evidence of a non-combat trade...
  3. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    I'm not sure the fit part made a difference?  Many of the people lost I found were fit with operational experience, but at 2am with no sleep on rickity snowshoes in the dark, people would slip on ice or tank ruts and injure themselves.  In fact the two most fit people I met in the CAF both ended...
  4. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    My concern is the failure rates, when you compare to other places (Ancedotal I know, but I've had people very recently on courses in Meaford, Aldershot, Wainwright) the failure rates were maybe 5-10%.  Its the difference between a mentoring course where the candidates left with more/better...
  5. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Heh.  That turnover.  I had some friends on a recent PLQ in Shilo that finished last week.  Apparently something like 14 of 38 graduated.  I do hope the CF enjoys paying out all those injuries and medical RTU's.  Perhaps one day our training system will evolve into teaching leadership instead of...
  6. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    I've heard some rumint from a few sources that there are some changes to ALJC coming this April, can annoy confirm this or is just wishful thinking?
  7. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    So, depends on what sub-occ you are interested in. Remember, currently you join as an ACISS core, and then based on your performance/luck/abilities/desires/luck/whims of the gods, praise be to Hermes (For he is great and naked), you may get picked up into a sub-specialty, or you may not want to...
  8. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    Update: To: +Guardian-Gardien-Communications@CMP MPMCT Proj@Ottawa-Hull <P-OTG.MPMCT-Communic@intern.mil.ca> Subject: Re: Specialist Pay / Groupe de spécialisté English text – French text follows Texte anglais – texte français suit The issue associated with Specialist Pay has been resolved...
  9. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    On Topic Update: Got paystub today and confirmed with most of the guys at the shop they got it too.  We started getting spec pay as IST's, at least that's what the base amount shows.  The rest of our pay is all messed up, some guys are +thousands and others are -thousands.  I went from...
  10. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    Same here, clerks tell me DMPAP is doing stuff and my pay still shows the "in progress" notes and not the completed notes and my pay should be normal regardless of all the notes until the final payout. I give this a 60% chance of being accurate, a CFSCE pass as it were.
  11. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    Wait, you're doing your sigs DP1...in Gagetown?  Not CFSCE in Kingston?  Huh, didn't know they did that. I have nothing useful to add, my DP1 was years ago and I'm told things are much different now, hopefully someone who did it recently can chime in.
  12. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Yeah, from my discussions with people in Edmonton, Aldershot and Valcartier, the courses seem to lack any appreciable standard at all.  I will say as a positive the new tests are actually somewhat decent, its nice to see the test standard moving towards actually understanding instead of just...
  13. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Absolutely, some people off course did show up clearly unfit, they didn't last 2 weeks for the most part.  We all did a FORCE test on day 2 or 3 which had one failure.  The rest of the medical RTU's were...some training injury's (With my personal opinion of being unnecessary, the heavy...
  14. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Here's the kicker, the staff (one or two did in fact wear mukluks) for the most part wore...neos.  We had other fun parts like a 3am wakeup with an air-raid siren on Sunday night so people were sleepy before we even started the 2nd field ex or the day after day of section attacks (Again wearing...
  15. ringo598

    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    I would emphasize fitness and marching as well.  Having just finished PLQ/ALJC out west a few weeks ago.  Our course was about 38 to start and we graduated with 17 I believe, 95% of the loss was medical RTU.  For the first field ex according to GPS we hit just about 54km in mukluks (Required to...
  16. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    Update:  So...IST/CST not getting spec pay for awhile? *** Sent on behalf of LCol I.R. Marchand *** ** This email has been sent to affected members of the RCCS, all RCCS Senior Officers and Senior NCOs ** It has been more than two months since our last official communication concerning ACISS...
  17. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    I was told by our clerks no new T4, its being paid out this year, so it'll be on this year (2018) T4 that we will get in 2019, so all the backpay will count towards this years income.  Not sure how accurate, but that's what I'm being told at least.
  18. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    FYI:  Not sure what most of this means, clerk speak, but from what I gather they've started getting things sorted out. Date:  31 Jan 2018 Subject: ACISS ACCOUNT CORRECTIONS DMPAP has commenced the correction to ACISS members pay accounts.  This is to advise units that they should place a PRZ...
  19. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    You can find the updated info here too, the public internet website has been updated with the codes as well: http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/caf-community-pay/specialist-pay-reg-force-ncm-mosids.page
  20. ringo598

    Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

    For any IST's interested, CDS order is being corrected, but some very good sources state that the pay/backpay/qual is: "AKOX AND AKOF AND AKOH" REF is CDS Directive 046/17, which currently has an OR in there, but its being changed to AND.
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