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The key question is whether you need a car to conduct your duties at the TD location.  If you do, there is a way to do that: 1)  Rent a car from home and drive that to the TD location.  That's the simplest option and all your gas receipts can be paid.  2)  Travel via POMV and claim mileage...

This is actually a tough choice.  Currently, the MND is also a commissioned officer, so he actually rates a salute on two counts.  Officers' commissions are generally for life (only one Canadian officer has actually been stripped of his commission) and so they carry it into retirement. 

When the Navy DEU was first introduced, only P2s and above received white shoes.  MS and below were expected to wear black shoes/boots.  It didn't take long to realize that was a mistake - you just can't get black shoe polish out of white polyester.  We eventually started issuing white shoes to...

For whatever reason, the Navy does not (or at least didn't as late as 2007) wear rank on its weather jackets (floater coats and all round operational cold-weather wear).  As a result, there is a always a good chance you will see a multitude of  folks running around the dockyard in uniform in...

If you're wearing clothing specifically designed to remain unnoticed, don't be surprised when people don't notice you...

Introducing logic and facts to an argument?  Really!?  What will they think of next?

A short explanation is that personnel can be recruited as either non-commissioned members (NCM) or as officers.  If you join as an NCM, promotion to corporal is automatic, provided you pass all the requisite training and it takes about four years from enrollment.  If you join as an officer...

Armoured Corps berets are black.  RCN ones are navy blue.

I concede!  I guess I paid too much attention to the voices in my head (those of my Grade 7 English teacher and my father the English professor).  However, a little research reveals that using "they" (and them and their, etc.) actually dates from the 14th Century and that it was only in the 19th...

They're just being idiots.  The only vehicles that need to be saluted are those that are marked for that purpose (flags/plates).

Except that's not actually grammatically correct.  "They" is a third person plural pronoun, whereas "he" and "she" are third person singular pronouns.  English does not have a gender-neutral third person singular pronoun.  "They" is only correct if you are referring to more than one person.

Sorry, not really.  The current cadet uniforms were a completely new design that was first issued around 1978-1980, when they were green for all cadets: Sea, Army and Air.  It is/was a bush jacket that bore, I suppose, a minor resemblance to the old RCAF uniform, but only insomuch that it had an...

Full dress uniforms with all their accoutrements and bling also look "cool, mean, tough and proud."

According to CANFORGEN 110/14, Air Canada will allow CAF members to take up to three bags (up to 32kg each) free of charge and West Jet will allow four bags.  Personnel traveling to Basic Training are CAF members.  The trouble, however, is they likely don't have ID cards yet.  They will have...

I don't think that the problem is that they were in the parade or even that they were armed.  However, it was a PARADE; therefore, they should have been in a parade order of dress, with their weapons at the shoulder arms and marching in a parade formation.  I don't understand this argument of...

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Yes, people are getting all worked up over something very innocuous.  The regulations concerning wearing uniforms in public are all about protecting the CAF image and preventing abuse.  We don't want to see folks in uniform getting into bar fights, but moving between Point A and Point B at...

Yes, precision is important, but note that I never said "paid service."  I said "pensionable service."  So, in my case, I was granted 296 days of "pensionable service" for my time in the Reserve.  That consisted of 110 days "Previous Full Time Paid Service (PFTPS) plus 1/4 X all my other Reserve...

There are many different possible scenarios, depending on the circumstances, some of which will involve either free food and accommodation (or reimbursement for it), but for the most part, no one lives for free at home.  If you're not deployed on operations, at sea in a ship, in the field on...

Of course I'm being facetious  ;D. However, I am reminded of the joke: Folks were sitting around the hangar and were the mood was grim.  They were fed up with their situation and wanted change, but didn't know how to bring it about.  "Why don't we go on strike?" said one young airman.  "We...