DIRECTED AT SERVING-MEMBER HUSBANDS.
Please, if your wife is fully briefed as to the CURRENT BMQ standards and you have done both your homework and due diligence to insure your wife will have the best chances of passing her course, this is NOT directed at you. Thanks to roughly 25% who used your head and had a wife successfully pass their BMQ course on the first try.
To the other 75% of husbands too lazy or to malicious to actually get off your butt and research what your wife is getting into, or too arrogant to think you could ever be mistaken as to what goes on at CFLRS St Jean, congratulations in your divorce proceedings.
Because anyone sending a wife as ill-prepared as you lot seem to must be looking to ditch your dearly beloved. I simply have no other explanation as to why current serving members would subject their wives to such failure and pain.
My Name is Sgt Lorne Warawa and I have worked as a recruit instructor at CFLRS now for just over 3 years. It’s been my experience that if a recruit is an English female who is a service-member’s spouse, she has only a 1 in 4 chance of passing her first BMQ course. The reason is fitness, pure and simple. I have no official stats to back me up in this assessment, but be thankful that the CF isn’t officially keeping these stats as it would probably paint you husbands as more a group of fools than I do. I am using my own experience in training over 17 courses to date. I am using my assessment of the other 17 sister platoon’s Admin PRB rates. That represents over 2000 recruits that I have had direct contact with, and if you add the corporate news regarding courses staffed by colleagues and friends then I do indeed feel qualified to give a general assessment of the passing rate of Service Member’s wives.
The impetus for speaking on this forum now is the fact that out of the 6 Service member’s wives that started the current course I am working on, we only have two left, and one is recently divorced. We have just finished week 2. Yes, week 2 has just passed and only two out of six have not been sent to RFT or VR’d. Fitness has been the crucial factor. This is a typical of course results overall. And it is extremely frustrating to the Staff.
Things have changed since you husbands went through Cornwallis. We do 3 full weeks in the field now, in full fighting order, at a relentless pace that taxes 19-year-old former football players. Recruits do at least two full periods of physical training a day, and that doesn’t include drill or moving in a formed body, every day for the 10 other weeks the course is in Garrison. If her course is above the 7th floor of the Mega, she’s lifting all her kit up and down over 60 flights of stairs a day, minimum. More if she smokes. Every recruit will attempt a 13 kilometre ruck march with weapon on the course. Every recruit will have marched on average 18 kilometres each day of the final exercise in full fighting order, no matter the weather, regardless of blisters. No matter if her trade is RMS clerk or cook. No matter if her element is Air or Sea. Am I getting your attention yet?
I have to ask, why is it so hard for you to use the CF intranet and find a current Staff member at the School who could tell you what criteria your wife needs to fulfill before she shows up? What is stopping you from researching the current course standards and finding out from recent graduates just how hard the School has become physically? Is it a lack of common sense, or is it something else entirely? The fact there are ample resources to access is painting you husbands as a group as less than stellar, and this crosses nearly all ranks from Corporal to MWO to Captain. Wake up.
I am placing the blame for this waste of time, effort and money squarely on the shoulders of those Service Members who’s wives have failed our courses. Thank you for blind-siding your wife and reducing her moral and self-worth to near zero. I am sure she would love to thank you for the pain and suffering your ignorance or indifference has caused. Way to go.
I point out that because you work at a CF base you have easy access to the PSP staff running the CF Express tests on a regular basis. For those of you who have a wife thinking of joining or in the process of joining, it is not too late. Get her on a test as soon as possible, and if she fails any portion, or just limps in at the bare minimums, curtail any further enrolment until she can make at least 20 % above the minimum. There is ample aid within this site and on any base to find the pre-course physical training program and expertise needed to last the 14 weeks. If she comes here below the minimums I have described, chances are the pounding and the relentless pace will find her unable to keep up. She will get injured, or she will waste months on RFT, or both, and likely quit. Or be prepared in the event your wife has the mental toughness we admire to stick it out, to be alone with the kids for an additional three to 7 months beyond what you thought she would be gone. I hope the experience chastises you, robs you of future deployments and leaves you a quivering shadow of a man. You deserve it, though its got to be hell on your family.
I place myself at the disposal of all considering wives and their considerate husbands who would like guidance in this matter. I can be reached at Warawa.LG@forces.gc.ca If your wife has already been re-coursed, or VR’d or is in the process of leaving you, don’t embarrass yourself further by commenting.
Please, if your wife is fully briefed as to the CURRENT BMQ standards and you have done both your homework and due diligence to insure your wife will have the best chances of passing her course, this is NOT directed at you. Thanks to roughly 25% who used your head and had a wife successfully pass their BMQ course on the first try.
To the other 75% of husbands too lazy or to malicious to actually get off your butt and research what your wife is getting into, or too arrogant to think you could ever be mistaken as to what goes on at CFLRS St Jean, congratulations in your divorce proceedings.
Because anyone sending a wife as ill-prepared as you lot seem to must be looking to ditch your dearly beloved. I simply have no other explanation as to why current serving members would subject their wives to such failure and pain.
My Name is Sgt Lorne Warawa and I have worked as a recruit instructor at CFLRS now for just over 3 years. It’s been my experience that if a recruit is an English female who is a service-member’s spouse, she has only a 1 in 4 chance of passing her first BMQ course. The reason is fitness, pure and simple. I have no official stats to back me up in this assessment, but be thankful that the CF isn’t officially keeping these stats as it would probably paint you husbands as more a group of fools than I do. I am using my own experience in training over 17 courses to date. I am using my assessment of the other 17 sister platoon’s Admin PRB rates. That represents over 2000 recruits that I have had direct contact with, and if you add the corporate news regarding courses staffed by colleagues and friends then I do indeed feel qualified to give a general assessment of the passing rate of Service Member’s wives.
The impetus for speaking on this forum now is the fact that out of the 6 Service member’s wives that started the current course I am working on, we only have two left, and one is recently divorced. We have just finished week 2. Yes, week 2 has just passed and only two out of six have not been sent to RFT or VR’d. Fitness has been the crucial factor. This is a typical of course results overall. And it is extremely frustrating to the Staff.
Things have changed since you husbands went through Cornwallis. We do 3 full weeks in the field now, in full fighting order, at a relentless pace that taxes 19-year-old former football players. Recruits do at least two full periods of physical training a day, and that doesn’t include drill or moving in a formed body, every day for the 10 other weeks the course is in Garrison. If her course is above the 7th floor of the Mega, she’s lifting all her kit up and down over 60 flights of stairs a day, minimum. More if she smokes. Every recruit will attempt a 13 kilometre ruck march with weapon on the course. Every recruit will have marched on average 18 kilometres each day of the final exercise in full fighting order, no matter the weather, regardless of blisters. No matter if her trade is RMS clerk or cook. No matter if her element is Air or Sea. Am I getting your attention yet?
I have to ask, why is it so hard for you to use the CF intranet and find a current Staff member at the School who could tell you what criteria your wife needs to fulfill before she shows up? What is stopping you from researching the current course standards and finding out from recent graduates just how hard the School has become physically? Is it a lack of common sense, or is it something else entirely? The fact there are ample resources to access is painting you husbands as a group as less than stellar, and this crosses nearly all ranks from Corporal to MWO to Captain. Wake up.
I am placing the blame for this waste of time, effort and money squarely on the shoulders of those Service Members who’s wives have failed our courses. Thank you for blind-siding your wife and reducing her moral and self-worth to near zero. I am sure she would love to thank you for the pain and suffering your ignorance or indifference has caused. Way to go.
I point out that because you work at a CF base you have easy access to the PSP staff running the CF Express tests on a regular basis. For those of you who have a wife thinking of joining or in the process of joining, it is not too late. Get her on a test as soon as possible, and if she fails any portion, or just limps in at the bare minimums, curtail any further enrolment until she can make at least 20 % above the minimum. There is ample aid within this site and on any base to find the pre-course physical training program and expertise needed to last the 14 weeks. If she comes here below the minimums I have described, chances are the pounding and the relentless pace will find her unable to keep up. She will get injured, or she will waste months on RFT, or both, and likely quit. Or be prepared in the event your wife has the mental toughness we admire to stick it out, to be alone with the kids for an additional three to 7 months beyond what you thought she would be gone. I hope the experience chastises you, robs you of future deployments and leaves you a quivering shadow of a man. You deserve it, though its got to be hell on your family.
I place myself at the disposal of all considering wives and their considerate husbands who would like guidance in this matter. I can be reached at Warawa.LG@forces.gc.ca If your wife has already been re-coursed, or VR’d or is in the process of leaving you, don’t embarrass yourself further by commenting.
