Recruting Center: Calgary
Regular/Reserve: Regular
Officer/NCM: DEO
Trade Choice 1: Engineer Officer
Trade Choice 2: Armoured Officer
Trade Choice 3: Infantry Officer
Trade Choice 4: Signals Officer
Application Date: January 7th, 2004
First Contact: January 9th, 2004
Aptitude Test: Feb. 17th, 2004 (Pass)
Medical Test: January 17th, 2005
Interview completed: January 17th, 2005
Position Offered: September 16th, 2005
Basic Training Begins: January 10th, 2006
PT Test completed: Waiting
Update April 1st, 2004 My security clearance is being processed now. Since I have been out of the country, it could take anywhere from 3-18 months. Guess I will get another research job while I wait. Sigh. Academics. The love hate relationship.
Update, Jan. 7, 2005 Security clearance has been cleared. It took a long 8 months, and I am pretty happy to finally be moving on.
Update Feb 22, 2005 Changed my trade choices, and under the advice of my career advisor I added a fourth choice. Engineer Officer and Armoured have very few positions open this coming selection board (less than 15 positions each), and the odds of me being picked are unclear. Infantry and Signals have lots of positions open, so I should get picked if I am beat out by the competition in the first two trades. I neglected to update, but my interview went really well. My medical is currently in Borden being processed, should hear back sometime in March.
Update March 1, 2005 Medical file came back from Borden, no problems. The only hurdle left is the selection board.