Monsoon
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Yes.Walsingham said:You'd probably have to go train in between jobs if you are too busy I guess. If I'd join MARS I would have to spend the three summers in Esquimalt living on the base/sea right?.
Well, you'll be at your unit every year in between courses - you never cease being "part" of your unit until you transfer to another unit or take a long-term (over one-year) contract, in which case you're posted to your contract unit. The location of D-level training depends on which D-level you take: Nav in Esquimalt, COPS in Quebec City. Some members never achieve a D-level; it's not mandatory to progress your career past Lt(N) in the Naval Reserve.So BMOQ/NETP-O and MARS takes 3 years then go back to your reserve unit and when you get promoted to Lt(N) you go for training, back to Esquimalt?
After the D-level (specifically the COPS D-level, which you need to take prior to promotion even if you get the Nav D-level first) you have met the pre-requisites for promotion to LCdr. However, promotion is merit based, not automatic: of 200-odd MARS Lt(N)s in the "promotion zone" nationally, about 3 a year are promoted to LCdr. You stand almost no chance of getting promoted without also achieving Command Part I by doing the 10-week Command Development Course, and by doing a LOT of time a sea.After the BMOQ, MARS, D level is there ANY more training required for NAVRES officers to reach the rank of Lt Cdr?
Age is not assessed as a promotion criteria at the merit boards. However, you stand no chance of getting promoted to LCdr in NAVRES with only 10 years in. About 15 years is typically the minimum, and that's for members who have been very active (doing contract work well beyond the minimum required courses and going to sea a lot). If your goal is promotion to LCdr, I'd advise against joining NAVRES; the equivalent rank of Maj is much easier to achieve in the militia on a strictly class "A" basis as their promotions to that rank are based on ranking within their units, and their establishment contains many more senior officers. In NAVRES you will be competing in a national merit process ranked against full-time officers posted to sea-going units. MARS is a sea-going trade, so unless you are quite exceptional, you won't get promoted without putting a lot of time in on the plates (and quite rightly).If one is around 40 by the time they finish MARS do you think they'd still have a good chance of making it to Lt Cdr in the NAVRES one day or will it be very hard since there are many younger people with more "potential" or whatever. I'd like to serve my Queen (It'd be King once I am that old) and Country one day for around 10 years in NAVRES or even more if I can also balance with a busy civvie job like being a lawyer. It'd be hard but even on the NAVRES recruiting booklets and stuff it said NAVRES is drawn from many different kinds of people including lawyers.
That being said, if your goal is the opportunity to do engaging work in an environment that few people have the opportunity to serve in, and you can look yourself in the mirror having achieved "only" the rank of Lt(N) by retirement (assuming you're one of the 25% of MARS enrollees who complete the initial trade training to the occupation's functional point), then I can't recommend any better trade.