I was posted to Kingston CFSCE for 6 months (Support Sqn) and then 1 RCHA (Artillery) for the past 2 years.
Kingston was a good go. It was very fast paced and the days went by very quickly. I really enjoyed working there. You also have a lot of opportunities to get loaded onto unfilled courses at the school.
Shilo. I really enjoy the area. Don't listen to all the horror stories about this place. It's one of the few places that housing is still affordable on Military pay (Brandon is ~50 000 residents with 140 000 commuting population). It has everything you need. All the big stores etc ... I paid 170 000 for a new 1100sq ft bungalow.
The unit is a bit of a different story. The guns don't go on training much anymore so there's not much equipment to fix and not much field time for the techs. I still haven't gone to the field since I got here 2 years ago. Pretty much all EX are Brigade level now (Wainright) and the Guns get support from GS Battalion. 1 RCHA techs are filling legacy positions and it needs to be looked at in my opinion.
One thing I like about the guns is the different opportunities. Like going to AVCON and kill poor defenceless snow in the Rockies. A lot of organized sports, family events and such. Adventure training pretty much every year if not twice a year. Since we have a jump bty (C Bty) it's possible to get your jump wings. We get special training, like MVI and AMS and the upcoming Microlite.
Deployments seem to be hard to get here for some odd reason. The Guns require their Techs for the work up training but they don't bring us with them (NSE and such takes care of them over there). So since they have an operational requirement for us for their training we can't get selected to go on tour ... That's how it was explained to me anyway, I might be misunderstanding. We have 1 tech out of 8 going to Afghanistan for TF1-08 and possibly 3 for TF1-09.
Hope you enjoy your posting. A lot of it is dependant on your attitude and what you make out of it.
I much rather be here at 1 RCHA than being at 731 Comm Sqn working in a cubicle all day. Artillery usually don't like their Sigs too much though, so get ready for a lot of duties and GDs ... :
I hear 2VP is a good go and I've been trying to get transferred there