If you can tell me how my suggestion to the OP to instead use either imposes further demand on Mike Bobbit or Army.CA resources, please do so.
I've made my objections to getting a subscription public. This site is a fair resource, but it has become a clubhouse of assholes and egos. Too often I see members (subscribers, DS, and nonsubscribers) mistake "USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION" as an insightful and helpful answer. Too often I see individuals posting comments that are little more than snide little swipes that ultimately amount to bullying, either by senior members or DS.
For that reason, I chose not to contribute.
It can easily be said that these individuals who routinely fail the "asshole test" before pressing send are the vast minority. I wouldn't argue that. However, I simply do not want to contribute to an environment that gives these mouthpieces another medium to express their contempt for other people, their views, or their inexperience.
Take a stroll through the recruiting forum. Here you will see a host of questions, many of them redundant. Here you will see a recurring theme: a question simply answered, whose answer is clearly quite personally and immediately relevant to potential recruits. We on this board can individually answer these questions with ease, and where we cannot, we remain silent. Yet we continue to have a rash of non-answers to one of our most important resources: our recruiting pool.
And, yes, I do believe new recruits and even those filthy human beings known as applicants are worthy of our respect and knowledge. To that end, I've taken the time to answer simple and even stupid questions in as patient a manner as I can muster. I put the effort in to welcoming these people because they are my replacements -- and I'd rather I be replaced by someone introduced through a spirit of mentorship and fostering. While I do respect we need a healthy system of degradation, abuse, and neglect of our applicants and recruits, I do not want to contribute to this and I do not seek to do so over electronic media.