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Best of luck.  I don't know you but I feel safe to say I am sure you will love the trade.

Oh, you meant rewrites on BAC :P  If I remember correctly you could fail 1 and get a rewrite.  2nd failure you would go to the PRB (performance review board) and you may or may not get another chance.  3rd failure you were pretty much toast.  As for flights and simulators you could fail one. ...

We had a couple fail on my BEW and they got a chance to re-write later on, after the course was over and they went home.  It caused them a fair amount of stress, though, as BEW was defined as a pre-requisite in the COTP INSTR for them to be loaded on their BAC crse.  I don't think they word the...

Congrats and welcome to the trade.  I remember what a great feeling it was when that offer finally came.  You will be quite busy over the next 12-18 months but you have just joined the best trade in the CF, IMHO.  You should have a COTP INSTR message follow shortly ,IIRC, and then a BAC CRSE...

Have to agree with Ex-Dragoon.  I intended to become an AES Op from the first day I joined the army.  However, I didn't apply until I had about 6 years in and I didn't get selected until I had 8 Years.  I wouldn't trade those 8 years with the Dragoons for anything.  The biggest thing to remember...

Yeah, and enjoy the BSERE.  It's really just a camping trip, but hasn't it been like -40ish degrees out there lately?  Enjoy your bunny, and eat it all at once.  Don't do what I did and save some for later because that frozen bunny carcass is never as enjoyable as when you have freshly roasted...

MuddyoldSpr, You are a living testament to the point I was trying make here earlier.  Although my career has not been as long or varied as your's to date, I too have not found myself, as of yet, in a position where I truly needed it.  I even work in a "bilingual" unit and still seem to manage...

I believe you are correct in this It doesn't matter.  The taxes you pay go into the healthcare system that provides the primary medical treatment of your dependents.  If you have no children then it is going to contribute to the health of the next generation or two of workers who will be...

Well, actually it is sort of like that.  Look at it this way, the CF (read; every canadian taxpayer) is providing you a free healthcare system.  You pay nothing for it (except the same proportion of your federal income tax as every other canadian - most of whom have no access to it) and in...

Well I say count your blessings you are in ON (tax-wise) it's a real deal.  I think you pay the lowest taxes in the country ( BC is very close).  We are all being taxed for a provincial health care system wherever we are posted.  If you weren't then you would be getting a free ride courtesy of...

So, for my income ( and your's according to your profile)  it would be $600.  My taxes icreased $2800 a year moving from ON to NS, so I would be $2200 better off in ON it would seem.  The way I understand it, it is payable by each taxpayer so you are not paying $600 for each of those "precious...

Wow that's more of a boot than I thought.  So $4000 for a family of 4? No family rates or anything?  I guess you are taxed more heavily than NS when it all comes out in the end. 

It's just politics.  The Ontario government doesn't want to raise taxes so they levy a Health Care Premium.  So now that it is broken down and you can see that separate portion, it just doesn't seem right, I know.  In reality if they had just raised their tax rate to cover the shortfalls in...

Congrats.  All the best in your new career!

I believe we have his identity nailed down.  I also loved his welcoming speech to the new troopers coming to his troop fresh out of Battle School, "You're all f***ing a**holes until proven otherwise, understand?" ;D

It's all the same to this unilingual slob ;)

I'm just pulling your chain.  Actually, I'm pretty sure you're safe .  That billet was filled by an FE from here this year.  I hear ya about the interview, I didn't bother last year for the same reason.

He was indeed.  And a big nascar fan.  Loved Dale Ernhardt (sp?)

I remember a great Troop Warrant when I was in the Armour Corps who used this premise to guage troop morale and what kind of a job he and the LT were doing with the troop.  It went like this; Once in the hide or harbour for the night the troop leader would immediately leave the troop to go get...

Thanks.  So you had the Career Mangler out there today, eh?  You getting posted to St. Jean next year because of a lack of bilingual AES Ops to fill the billet? ;D just kidding.  Don't lose it on me. Not sure I follow you.  Are you saying that people get extra points on their PER for getting...