Recent content by Wanderingaimlessly

Here is my $0.02. We need an armed force as a nation to maintain credibility internationally and to claim sovereignty over our territory.  If we are unhappy with having to pay for it, we can always ask to become part of the US and have them take over the job. 

Members are effectively subsidizing their own training if their net income is reduced by virtue of being sent on a prohibited/restricted posting.  I am not applying spin one way or the other.  I simply think what is being done is wrong and the burden of paying for rations should not be thrown on...

So my unit has finally received guidance on how this application of this new CANFORGEN will roll out and it doesn't look good for those members on a Prohibited posting. Members who are posted prohibited will be required to remit the ration portion of their SE and will now only be covered for...

Yes.  Factoring in salary, benefits, and cost of education for a former corporal it comes out to nearly that much.  I guess the big question is did I forget to carry the 1? I factored in full pay and all that, but I have heard strange tales in similar cases where someone in similar shoes gets...

The member is in his period of obligatory service now.  I realize those sorts of calculations are tough, but I would love to tell this guy he won't be hit for $400,000.  My napkin math on that might be in error, but it blew me away. 

Like I said, the member is over 10 years of service. He is a 2Lt who has just recently failed MOC training with few options being presented at the PSO level.  Formerly trained in an NCM occupation, the member presented wanting to take "the honorable way out" after seeing the apparently ghastly...

Long time reader, first time poster. I had a member come and ask a question regarding his obligations regarding release and obligatory service.  The member has several years owing with over ten years of service and would like to break his contract but can't seem to find with any clarity what he...