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Hey everyone, long time reader first time poster or something like that.
I'm 22/m and live out here in Shilo . Been an army brat all my life, my father is a Warrant as an RMS but started off in the RCR's. My mother recently got into the ROTP for Nursing, and all my grandfathers have been infantry, so I suppose the army sort of runs in the family.
I applied 3 months ago and still haven't heard anything back. Now, I know this is typical for the military and such and everyday "hurry up and wait" has that much more meaning for me, but here's the real kicker:
The lost my Med Docs.
I was in the Army Reserve 2 years ago, in 26 Field. When I applied, I thought about how much easier it should be for me to get in since I'm coming right off the street and not transfering from Res to Reg (figure that one out, you'd think it would be faster). Boy was I wrong. The clerks in Winnipeg aren't sure if my med docs are there, in Ottawa, here in Shilo or if 38 Brigade still has them. No one seems to know where anything is and naturally, I'm the one sitting at home banging his face against a wall in frustration. What irks me even more is that after talking to a few of my fathers friends higher up the command chain, it doesn't seem like (so far) a tremendous effort as been made to find them. Turns out, no one called 26 Field to see if they may know and only one call as been made to Shilo here and to top it off the person they were looking for was off that day - and they haven't called back. Yay!
My father, since he is the one who can make any real difference here, is trying to convince the Lt. Cmdr in Recruiting to just give me a fresh start and give me a new medical and go from there. All this is doing is wasting time, and in fact if we had just given me a new medical instead of waiting so long I might have been heading for my PT test sometime in the next two weeks instead of babysitting kids at the gym here as a Commissionaire (I think I may be the youngest commissionaire in the whole Corps.)
I had put down Clerk as my Trade of choice but lately I've been having serious thoughts of just saying **** it all, and calling up Recruiting and telling them to change it to Infantry. I train a lot normally as it is, and want a job that is/does:
a) Honourable and challenging
b) No one else can say they've done or relate to in any way
c) Pays me to persue fitness and weight train and be aggressive
d) Let's me shoot and blow up things
Plus, and this may sound lame, but I want to follow in my grandfathers footsteps. I know one of my grandfathers was in the 1RCHA, and the other was an infanteer but unfortunately i haven't been able to track down his battalion. Although, I'm probably going to ask for PPCLI, maybe even 2PPCLI since the whole lot of them are down here in Shilo now and I'm surrounded with them and know a good deal of them. This of course brings up the problem that ... My God, do I want to spend a good deal of my career back in this place?? Maybe I should ask for 1PPCLI.. The RCR's are still out on the fence, admittedly I don't know a whole lot about them and people tend to go with what they know which is in my case the Patricias.
I can only run a good 3 1/2 k as it is, but with the way things are going, hell I got another 4 months to prepare for basic, in which case I hope to be able to run a solid 5 km in 20 minutes, and 6km in a very respectable time. From what I've heard being able to run a good 6k is good enough for SQ, but by then if everything goes according to plan, I should be ready for the infantry anyhow.
Got kind of off track there, and this is a long post! So... Just thought I would share my story about how our wonderful military works.. Could be worse though: My friend (who is now in his last week of basic) had to wait 16 months to get in as an AVN!
I'm 22/m and live out here in Shilo . Been an army brat all my life, my father is a Warrant as an RMS but started off in the RCR's. My mother recently got into the ROTP for Nursing, and all my grandfathers have been infantry, so I suppose the army sort of runs in the family.
I applied 3 months ago and still haven't heard anything back. Now, I know this is typical for the military and such and everyday "hurry up and wait" has that much more meaning for me, but here's the real kicker:
The lost my Med Docs.
I was in the Army Reserve 2 years ago, in 26 Field. When I applied, I thought about how much easier it should be for me to get in since I'm coming right off the street and not transfering from Res to Reg (figure that one out, you'd think it would be faster). Boy was I wrong. The clerks in Winnipeg aren't sure if my med docs are there, in Ottawa, here in Shilo or if 38 Brigade still has them. No one seems to know where anything is and naturally, I'm the one sitting at home banging his face against a wall in frustration. What irks me even more is that after talking to a few of my fathers friends higher up the command chain, it doesn't seem like (so far) a tremendous effort as been made to find them. Turns out, no one called 26 Field to see if they may know and only one call as been made to Shilo here and to top it off the person they were looking for was off that day - and they haven't called back. Yay!
My father, since he is the one who can make any real difference here, is trying to convince the Lt. Cmdr in Recruiting to just give me a fresh start and give me a new medical and go from there. All this is doing is wasting time, and in fact if we had just given me a new medical instead of waiting so long I might have been heading for my PT test sometime in the next two weeks instead of babysitting kids at the gym here as a Commissionaire (I think I may be the youngest commissionaire in the whole Corps.)
I had put down Clerk as my Trade of choice but lately I've been having serious thoughts of just saying **** it all, and calling up Recruiting and telling them to change it to Infantry. I train a lot normally as it is, and want a job that is/does:
a) Honourable and challenging
b) No one else can say they've done or relate to in any way
c) Pays me to persue fitness and weight train and be aggressive
d) Let's me shoot and blow up things
Plus, and this may sound lame, but I want to follow in my grandfathers footsteps. I know one of my grandfathers was in the 1RCHA, and the other was an infanteer but unfortunately i haven't been able to track down his battalion. Although, I'm probably going to ask for PPCLI, maybe even 2PPCLI since the whole lot of them are down here in Shilo now and I'm surrounded with them and know a good deal of them. This of course brings up the problem that ... My God, do I want to spend a good deal of my career back in this place?? Maybe I should ask for 1PPCLI.. The RCR's are still out on the fence, admittedly I don't know a whole lot about them and people tend to go with what they know which is in my case the Patricias.
I can only run a good 3 1/2 k as it is, but with the way things are going, hell I got another 4 months to prepare for basic, in which case I hope to be able to run a solid 5 km in 20 minutes, and 6km in a very respectable time. From what I've heard being able to run a good 6k is good enough for SQ, but by then if everything goes according to plan, I should be ready for the infantry anyhow.
Got kind of off track there, and this is a long post! So... Just thought I would share my story about how our wonderful military works.. Could be worse though: My friend (who is now in his last week of basic) had to wait 16 months to get in as an AVN!