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PMedMoe said:See you there, Vern. I took a day's annual for the Friday. :nod:
Moi aussi; I'll only be getting back to my apartment circa 0800hrs ... if my personal tradition holds on this base too. ;D
PMedMoe said:See you there, Vern. I took a day's annual for the Friday. :nod:
recceguy said:So where is the link to LFCO 11-05, as announced in CANLANDGEN 013/10, dapaterson is talking about?
recceguy said:So where is the link to LFCO 11-05, as announced in CANLANDGEN 013/10, dapaterson is talking about?
PuckChaser said:I really don't see people's issue with mess dinners. They are always a great time, if you let them be a great time. If you go to one with a bad attitude, it just drags everyone else down. What other job pays you to go to a dinner after work hours, gives you a shiny suit to wear and lets you party with your coworkers with some good food and free wine? I've even made gavel stealing a personal specialty/mission. I hope that doesn't have to stop when I'm a Snr NCO.
Ding, dingTimBit said:Completely agree! Mess dinners are fun and a great way to learn to know those peers you may not know. I personnally believe that esprit de corps is one of the things that sets us apart from the civvy street and that it should be promoted.
As a Naval Officer, it seems to me that if you are eventually going to be stuck on a ship with 25 or so colleagues for 6 months, might as well learn to know them and, even better, to enjoy them.
As for the MIddlemiss CM, you will also note that the CO mentionned that CanDet was hosting US NORAD/NORTHCOM on that particular occasion. Therefore, it would have been rude for the CanDet, notably smaller than the guest organization, not to put out a good show. And, the severity of the judgement hinged strongly on the fact that he, as a junior leader in this unit, had to set the example. But I guess that is how the CF is nowadays, people are looking more into what they can get out of it than what they can put in...
George Wallace said:I have always enjoyed myself at Mess Dinners. I have enjoyed the ones where I was waited upon, and the ones where I was a Server. We used to fight to be chosen to serve at Mess Dinners, yet another tradition that has seen an end.
The Mess and the fun that you have in it is made by you. If you want to have a good time in the Mess, strive to have a good time. If you want to see the Mess become a useless drain on your pocket book with no returns, then neglect it and don't participate. Your choice. Be a miserable miser, or have a good time and enjoy the interaction.
I'd like to ask Grunt225 if they enjoy going out to dinner at a fancy restaurant, or perhaps an evening of Karaoke?
PuckChaser said:They can force you to go, if you want to refuse to pay. The JAG had a briefing note floating around CFSCE about mess dinners being part of military life and that reasonable costs are built into a catchall percentage of your pay to offset their cost.
Why is your unit making you spend your own dime on PD trips? You should be on TD if its out of town with rations and quarters plus transport.
MisterE said:Oh it's not for me but for a guy that I know
MisterE said:So they tapped several Sgts and said you will attenend and you will bring your spouse.
Jim Seggie said:I'd like to see the CWO who could tell my wife "you will attend". I've tried that with her and got told...in no uncertain terms.
Eye In The Sky said:If spouses are attending, is it not really a "Mixed Dining In" vice "Mess Dinner"?
mariomike said:Reminds me of something I heard about making a marriage last. "Two times a week, we go to a nice restaurant, a little wine, good food..... She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays."