St-Jean-sur-Richelieu is quite a military city. It has the ASU St-Jean which is part of the CFB Montréal, and the old Collège militaire royal de St-Jean is still used by the Canadian Forces (now under the name Collège Fort St-Jean). Even though their is a lot of military personnel that still work and study at Fort St-Jean, civilians have a better access to it then we do. During my Lieutenant Qualification Course that I just finished with RCIS(E), we should have had access to the Officers' Mess of the campus, however, civilans had always rented it, and therefore, all the snotties of the RMC and the CIC officers had to go to the NCO's mess (les Forges). During the whole course, we only had access to the officers' mess on two occassions - during our course mess dinner (and their was a weeding reception at the same time), and after the graduation parade at 1600 hours the next day.
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