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Hello All,
I have applied for RMS Clerk and was wondering if there were any others out there. My application process has been fairly quick so far and very interesting. In my visits to the RC, I have met a number of young people, but none that were applying for RMS Clerk. Funny thing I noticed was that they all seem to sit in a nervous silence no matter how many there are in the waiting area. I managed to get some talking to me and it seemed to help them relax a bit. Especially a young man I was talking to one morning because he had a massive case of the nervous twitchies and I wanted to help him relax and talking seems to do that for some people. Turns out he was there for his swearing in and had no clue why he was so riled up. Also, talking about his journey did seem to help.
I applied online in October, called in for CFAT in November, Interview in February, Medical in March. I had to provide some extra medical forms and go have my vision tested since I hadn't been to the optometrist in 4 years. All the forms were emailed to the Senior Med. Tech. on April 9th.
Time rolled on, as it does, and I had not heard anything. On May 6th I called the RC and got voicemail. The outgoing message gave an email address for information request, so I promptly fired off an email to request a status update. The response came the next day telling me the med team was still waiting for documents. Well....that gave me some confusion, but I promptly faxed copies of the documents I had, requesting a reply and confirmation that nothing further was missing.
Fifteen minutes later I got a call from the Corporal in the med office. She explained that the faxed documents were copies of what they already had and what they were waiting on was the blood test results and the ECG results. I thanked her and told her she would have them as soon as I could manage. Phoned my Dr. to find out what happened since it had been a month and found out that THEY had not received the ECG from the lab, AND that the Nurse Practitioner had not made a note to send them on to the RC. That being figured out, she promised to have the lab fax her the results and she would them send both documents on to the fax number I provided her. I called again on May 7th and she confirmed that both documents had been faxed. Now I get to hurry up and wait some more. :nod:
While I am waiting, my family is getting ready for my youngest child to graduate from gr. 8, and also for my brother's wedding coming up in July. Everyone I know is supportive of my efforts to get in to the armed forces and understand that I may not be able to attend these special events. I am also doing my best to get in better shape by walking everywhere I don't absolutely need to drive to get there, weight training, the gym, hiking (cause that is just FUN) and running. I also walk around the building I work in, every break. The Lt. that interviewed me told me I scored very high on the aptitude test and that I had the education and experience they were looking for and that as long as my medical came back good, he saw no problems for me to get an offer. His only suggestion was for me to work hard on improving my physical condition before Basic.
I look forward to reading any comments and the other stories on the boards.
I have applied for RMS Clerk and was wondering if there were any others out there. My application process has been fairly quick so far and very interesting. In my visits to the RC, I have met a number of young people, but none that were applying for RMS Clerk. Funny thing I noticed was that they all seem to sit in a nervous silence no matter how many there are in the waiting area. I managed to get some talking to me and it seemed to help them relax a bit. Especially a young man I was talking to one morning because he had a massive case of the nervous twitchies and I wanted to help him relax and talking seems to do that for some people. Turns out he was there for his swearing in and had no clue why he was so riled up. Also, talking about his journey did seem to help.
I applied online in October, called in for CFAT in November, Interview in February, Medical in March. I had to provide some extra medical forms and go have my vision tested since I hadn't been to the optometrist in 4 years. All the forms were emailed to the Senior Med. Tech. on April 9th.
Time rolled on, as it does, and I had not heard anything. On May 6th I called the RC and got voicemail. The outgoing message gave an email address for information request, so I promptly fired off an email to request a status update. The response came the next day telling me the med team was still waiting for documents. Well....that gave me some confusion, but I promptly faxed copies of the documents I had, requesting a reply and confirmation that nothing further was missing.
Fifteen minutes later I got a call from the Corporal in the med office. She explained that the faxed documents were copies of what they already had and what they were waiting on was the blood test results and the ECG results. I thanked her and told her she would have them as soon as I could manage. Phoned my Dr. to find out what happened since it had been a month and found out that THEY had not received the ECG from the lab, AND that the Nurse Practitioner had not made a note to send them on to the RC. That being figured out, she promised to have the lab fax her the results and she would them send both documents on to the fax number I provided her. I called again on May 7th and she confirmed that both documents had been faxed. Now I get to hurry up and wait some more. :nod:
While I am waiting, my family is getting ready for my youngest child to graduate from gr. 8, and also for my brother's wedding coming up in July. Everyone I know is supportive of my efforts to get in to the armed forces and understand that I may not be able to attend these special events. I am also doing my best to get in better shape by walking everywhere I don't absolutely need to drive to get there, weight training, the gym, hiking (cause that is just FUN) and running. I also walk around the building I work in, every break. The Lt. that interviewed me told me I scored very high on the aptitude test and that I had the education and experience they were looking for and that as long as my medical came back good, he saw no problems for me to get an offer. His only suggestion was for me to work hard on improving my physical condition before Basic.
I look forward to reading any comments and the other stories on the boards.