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As I ponder submitting a CRA 60 request (I am RegF, 51 years old, with 32 years service, on IPS), I just have a few questions. Firstly, and most importantly, my understanding is that changing from CRA 55 to CRA 60 has no implications, other than it allows service to age 60.  i.e. I could still...

Yes its legit.  Norm Christie is well known, and really did work for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Here's a more recent news article, from of all papers The Star: https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2016/01/07/historian-looking-for-canadians-mass-grave-at-vimy-ridge.html Donate...

Is the recruiting website down? We've been trying to start our son off, and last week and again this evening, when we go to the "Apply Now" page to start the application off, and regardless of whether we try to sign-in with a trusted agent "Sign-in Partner" or try to sign up for a new GCKey, we...

Just to respond to an older question way back in this thread (as I sit here sipping my morning coffee surfing): I can personally confirm that both the Minto and McGregor armouries in Winnipeg are still in active use. My son just joined the FGH, which parades at McGregor with, I believe, a Fd...

Okay, I'm intrigued.  Why is there no crown on top, if its a cap badge?

Good thread.  For more on this, see Sean Maloney, “Learning to Love the Bomb: Canada's Nuclear Weapons During the Cold War”, 2007. Also  Matthew Trudgen,  “Do We Want "Buckets of Instant Sunshine”? ~ Canada and Nuclear Weapons 1945-1984” in Canadian Military Journal...

To all those advocating "more training" for soldiers so that they could assume armed guard duties in public: I'll not get into a debate about whether the costs would or would not be prohibitive, but rather point out another factor -- combat vs civilian policing training standards. Weapons...

Was there are PRes part to YTEP back then?  Possibly in the form simply of funding for more recruit trg than there would have otherwise been, so long as the recruits in question were youth/students?  (Which presumably would be almost all of them anyway.) Just curious.

Serious question for the many admin SMEs here: what about those in PMQs at time of retirement? They must vacate (within how long?) upon release.  What if they wish to retire in the same city?  Any provision for that? Just curious -- this is the first thought that popped into my head upon...

FJAG: Serious  question for you -- why not simply submit reports that consisted of the content that *could* be generated within the reasonable amount of time that could be budgeted towards that work, perhaps including a statement explaining the inability to produce greater detail? That strikes...

@ Kirkhill,  What do you mean "once used to neutral"?

Regarding TD, just for backgrd, perhaps its worth explaining: a. being "on TD" invokes a specific regime of allowances: (1) rations and quarters are covered for pers on TD -- either on base or, if that is not practicable, then by reimbursement for commercial accomodation and meals, up to...

Just one quick comment, from someone who both graduated from military college (a classified number of years ago) and has written a couple of reference letters for young people who successfully got into RMC: over and above the (quite sound) recommendations about an academic letter of reference in...

@PuckChaser, Quite so.  I meant short.

Just a bit on "a day in the life of" an RMC grad student (as opposed to the utility of the degree): Full disclosure: I did it back in the mid90s, as a RegF offr. The OP suggested a desire to go to RMC as a cadet.  Just to be clear -- grad students at RMC are not/not members of the cadet wing...

Just to throw in another two cents -- if your unit wants it to be leave you could request one day special.

Just as an aside, it was to control the tendency of each level of command tacking on their own bit of lead time that we invented the phrase "NO MOVE BEFORE."

"Coins" are memento keepsakes that seem to be increasingly common in military circles.  They are generally given out in two ways: (1) as indicting membership in something (a unit, a qualification etc).  These are typically numbered; or (2) increasingly common nowadays -- as a token, gift...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the investigations wasn't of the reporter (********) himself, it was of a suspected leak *TO* the reporter.  Still ridiculous IMHO.... ... and I too smiled at the description of the NIS as "elite."

On the Canadian observer mission in Vietnam, see: http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/caj/documents/vol_10/iss_1/CAJ_vol10.1_10_e.pdf http://www.army.forces.gc.ca/caj/documents/vol_10/iss_2/CAJ_vol10.2_10_e.pdf or the book Douglas Ross, <i>In the Interests of Peace: Canada and Vietnam 1954-73</i>...