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Saw a great commercial for Marine Corps recruiting today while I was watching NBC coverage of the Buffalo and Ottawa hockey game. the commercial focussed on those things that make the Marine Corps an elite group....the silent drill team...the fitness...the espirit de corps.....then the slogan at the end ...."the Marine Corps...we're not taking applications...we're looking for commitments."
wow....exactly...this is what we should be looking for too in the CF. This is not a job...this is a lifestyle...and if you're joining so you can learn to fly and then go make bucks with Air Canada (lots of pilots on my basic used to say this) or get a trade so you can go to Alberta and make big bucks then you're joining for the wrong reasons. I have always felt that we sell ourselves short in the CF. The RCMP has a waiting list of people lining up to join because they have maintained that they are special....not like any other job or police force....similar to the message that the Marine Corps is putting out.
this is what we should be doing in the CF. Make it an organization that people want to join because of it's uniqueness not for what people can get from the system to enable them to go on to something else.
wow....exactly...this is what we should be looking for too in the CF. This is not a job...this is a lifestyle...and if you're joining so you can learn to fly and then go make bucks with Air Canada (lots of pilots on my basic used to say this) or get a trade so you can go to Alberta and make big bucks then you're joining for the wrong reasons. I have always felt that we sell ourselves short in the CF. The RCMP has a waiting list of people lining up to join because they have maintained that they are special....not like any other job or police force....similar to the message that the Marine Corps is putting out.
this is what we should be doing in the CF. Make it an organization that people want to join because of it's uniqueness not for what people can get from the system to enable them to go on to something else.