I am curious Blackberry, you state that Canadian soldiers are always complaining and that we should wake up and realize that the Canadian Army is not up to standard. Question: Why are you trying to join then?
The Recruiting process is imperfect because it relies on people. To add to what Raptor said (Excellent Post!) there are no perfect recruitment processes out there. CF, RCMP, OPP, EMS, Fire, and on and on, they all have faults and people make mistakes, the mark of a good process is the people learning from their mistakes.
I wasn't in the CF 20 years ago, wasn't in 10 years ago, has it changed, I wouldn't argue that it hasn't, the whole world has changed. If anything the recruiters jobs have gotten harder because of the things going on in the world, the days of taking a fella off of the street and throwing him into uniform are over, security reasons say we just can't do that anymore. The problems anyone has at the CFRC have nothing to do with the state of the CF, in my opinion they have more to do with the things happening around us and how that affects how someone is hired. You can't get a passport like you could three years ago now, try crossing the border into the US, they are alot more strict on certain things than they were five years ago. Does it suck, no doubt, but I am happy to see that they are vetting the future troops as much as they can. Will it get better, well, time will tell, for those prospective troopies out there I sure hope that it does.
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