I had a hard time coming up with something to say with regards to this. But after considerable thought here is what I have come up with.
If you truly want to be an officer in the Canadian Forces, you will strive to better yourself. Shifting blame on to other is something that will not work in the military. At least not to achieve the desired result that you would like. From what I can see from your last post, I cannot really see any real desires to serve the Canadian Forces, other then to take advantage of the educational opportunities currently being offered. You had stated that you only cared about getting into RMC, well my question to you is WHY? Because if it is to say that you graduated from a Military College, then your reason for being there is wrong. When you graduate from RMC you will be commissioned into the Canadian Forces as an officer and a gentleman/woman. With that commission comes great responsibilities. Leadership, honesty, integrity, professionalism, compassion, accountability, responsibility and loyalty wont just be words out of a novel or a movie, but the very virtues that you should live by. Granted not all of us can achieve all of those things all the time, but by god I try hard to do so. When you have earned your degree, you will at the same time have been granted that commission. Your troops will look to you for leadership, they will look to you for guidance, and yes you will have SNCOs there to support, nurture, tutor you along the way, but when it comes down to it, you are the Platoon/Troop/Flight commander and the buck stops with you. REMEMBER that. If you're not going into RMC with the desire to serve, lead, and challenge your self I honestly don't think RMC is the place for you. As you have previously listed, UBC, SFU or BCIT as your other educational institution of choice, they are to me a diverse and different schools to be in. However, NONE of them will challenge you both mentally, physically and academically like RMC will.
I am not trying to discourage you or to insult/belittle in anyway. I am trying to make you understand something. There are those who forget this, but when you put on that uniform with that bar on your chest, you have to worry about more then just 'I'. If you don't know what the military is like, and you don't get into RMC this year, I would suggest that you join a Reserve unit in Vancouver. Since by your school choices you are here in the lower mainland. Call up a recruiter at a unit you want to join and talk to them. Stick around here and read. READ until you've got some concepts down, and ASK questions that are intelligent and thoughtful at the same time. But definitely SEARCH, because we're low on bandwith and I'm sure the Mods are tired of locking up repeated threads.
I wish you all the luck in your future endeavours, and if you get in this year, good luck at RMC. Remember, there are millions of those who think they have what it takes to lead, but only a handful have what it really takes to do it properly. Ideally those are the ones we want in the Forces, and those are the ones I want to lead me, and my soldiers when the time comes.
