Hi McBear, good to see you again.
As far as getting your jump course in the reserves: with the QOR, once you are a trained soldier, you can throw your name on a list. It would seem that most competant soldiers get the oppertunity to go (and some cannot due to work, so I'd suggest joining early enough that you could do the course while in school, etc.) as we have many spots.
During the jumps in CAC2004 I was lucky enough to be placed under the direction of a Lincoln and Welland jumper who mentioned that they had the slots, but were having trouble finding soldiers to fill them all (the increased number of spots was beacause the unit was looking at possibly forming a jump coy). To my knowledge, the jump coy has not yet happend.
My course, done through cadets, had one female pass, and one female not pass. It is the same course that was referred to in 0304's post as "passing barely" (or somthing to that effect). She did a fantastic job, and was a competant parachutist when we finished, the same as every other person on that course who passed. I too had to do a PO check retest (as did many other course candidates), and that does not constitute poor preformance on the course or an "almost passing" grade.
Potter.
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