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Yet - from the class action website itself: Veterans Well-being Act: disability award

I'm just gonna add fuel to the fire: This is from the vetspensionerror website. My emphasis in bold below: (In summary, I think it includes EVERYONE who is receiving any payment from VAC) All members and former members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and their...

https://vetspensionerror.ca/

So the approval hearing was held on 18 Dec - any news yet?

god knows what I wore. All I remember is the CO's face when I replied to his "Please stop by if you're in the neighbourhood" with "Oh I'm sure I'll run out of batteries eventually haha"

Admission - My troop commander, at the end of tour, gave me his write up nominating me for the MSM. 7 pages. He gave it to me because he knew it wasn't going to go anywhere because, to quote an unnamed person 'He has already been recognised'. The recognition? CEFCOM Sergeant Major's Coin...

I've seen MSM's handed out for people literally doing their job. In fact you can pretty much say it's a check in the box for going past colonel (and AF/Navy equiv). Valour decorations - yes indeed, they are rare. Not so with the meritorious dec's.

Maybe a critical eye SHOULD be cast upon this program. I mean, what actual mission effects are enabled by Tiger Williams showing up on tour. Let's see some empirical evidence, hell, run a poll amongst deployed troops! I mean, they are only away 6-8 months anyways, I could see the point back in...

I made much the same point on FB. 12 years between Brit and Canuck armies, and during that time, not once during any number of overseas deployment did the appearance of some C-list, past-their-prime, trotting out offering up lame jokes and the random cheerleader squad courtesy of the USO...

Gents, last night one of our own was taken in a MVC in North Bay. He leaves behind a wife and 2 children. At this time, it appears it was due to a drunk driver. Please share the link out on the sapper net, and if you can, donate something...

Agreed. Case in point, myself. Joined the British Army at 21 with a smattering of Grade 11 credits (no grade 12). Someone noticed some potential during my initial training and recommended me for the Regular Commissions Board, I did the pre-board, and was placed on a 12 week Potential Officers...

My humble 2c...... I worked with a great deal of awesome officers during my short time in the CF, on par with any I worked with in the British Army (products of Sandhurst). And of course, some absolute duds. Was there a noticeable difference between RMC grads and non-RMC grads? Professionally...

I gave a 40min presentation to about 100 7/8 graders at the local school......As I was setting up, the teacher admits to me 'You know, when I tell them about Afghanistan I tell them about how it was peacekeeping'......me, thinking about the helmet cam video of a .50 firing from our rooftop OP...

Was I the only one to notice he's wearing ankle socks in that picture?

I've been watching this thread with interest as a former ground pounder and now as someone who works the 24 hr shift. To be honest, I'm too baffled by the regulations quoted here to debate the meaning and intent of the CF Leave Manual, hell I rarely paid attention to it when I was in! But I...