On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:09 -0300, "Don White"
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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:24:40 -0300, "Don White"
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Yes...first thing I did. He grumbled something and went into the house,
magically re-appearing just after I had finished shovelling all the gravel
off and hosing off the crusher dust.

You are doing it all wrong.

You hand him the shovel and tell him to get started - you'll be right
back. Then you reappear after it's all shoveled out and the dust has
been sprayed out. :)

Freakin' Canadians - always doing things backwards.

He's actually thinking of joining the reserves. It'll be interesting to see
what a little military training will do

Best of luck to him.

Now that I think of it, now that Canada has all one military, how does
one join, say, the Navy as opposed to the Army?

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:09 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:24:40 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Yes...first thing I did. He grumbled something and went into the house,
magically re-appearing just after I had finished shovelling all the gravel
off and hosing off the crusher dust.
You are doing it all wrong.

You hand him the shovel and tell him to get started - you'll be right
back. Then you reappear after it's all shoveled out and the dust has
been sprayed out. :)

Freakin' Canadians - always doing things backwards.
He's actually thinking of joining the reserves. It'll be interesting to see
what a little military training will do

Best of luck to him.

Now that I think of it, now that Canada has all one military, how does
one join, say, the Navy as opposed to the Army?

Trust me, just sign on the bottom line, and we can not only put you in
the branch of service you want, but we will give you the job you want in
that branch. Now sign here.....................................

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:36:51 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:09 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:24:40 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Yes...first thing I did. He grumbled something and went into the house,
magically re-appearing just after I had finished shovelling all the gravel
off and hosing off the crusher dust.
You are doing it all wrong.

You hand him the shovel and tell him to get started - you'll be right
back. Then you reappear after it's all shoveled out and the dust has
been sprayed out. :)

Freakin' Canadians - always doing things backwards.
He's actually thinking of joining the reserves. It'll be interesting to see
what a little military training will do

Best of luck to him.

Now that I think of it, now that Canada has all one military, how does
one join, say, the Navy as opposed to the Army?

Trust me, just sign on the bottom line, and we can not only put you in
the branch of service you want, but we will give you the job you want in
that branch. Now sign here.....................................

Oddly, if I could, I would.

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:01:09 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 16:24:40 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:

Yes...first thing I did. He grumbled something and went into the house,
magically re-appearing just after I had finished shovelling all the gravel
off and hosing off the crusher dust.
You are doing it all wrong.

You hand him the shovel and tell him to get started - you'll be right
back. Then you reappear after it's all shoveled out and the dust has
been sprayed out. :)

Freakin' Canadians - always doing things backwards.
He's actually thinking of joining the reserves. It'll be interesting to see
what a little military training will do


Oi!

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Now that I think of it, now that Canada has all one military, how does
one join, say, the Navy as opposed to the Army?


That 'unification' thing isn't quite as bad as when it first came in and
army/navy/airforce personel all looked like coca cola drivers.

My son passed the initial screening and they gave him two phone numbers to
call...his choice.army or navy.
He has a cousin who's a recruiter and she thinks he should be a candidate
for officer school since he already has a university degree.
We'll see if he likes the bootcamp experience since he sure doesn't like me
telling him what to do.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:44:57 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Now that I think of it, now that Canada has all one military, how does
one join, say, the Navy as opposed to the Army?


That 'unification' thing isn't quite as bad as when it first came in and
army/navy/airforce personel all looked like coca cola drivers.

My son passed the initial screening and they gave him two phone numbers to
call...his choice.army or navy.

Cool.

He has a cousin who's a recruiter and she thinks he should be a candidate
for officer school since he already has a university degree.

He should do it. One of the biggest mistakes I made when I was in was
not to take the OCS school offer and mustang my way up.

We'll see if he likes the bootcamp experience since he sure doesn't like me
telling him what to do.

Heh. Understood.

On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:44:57 -0300, "Don White"
wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Now that I think of it, now that Canada has all one military, how does
one join, say, the Navy as opposed to the Army?


That 'unification' thing isn't quite as bad as when it first came in and
army/navy/airforce personel all looked like coca cola drivers.

My son passed the initial screening and they gave him two phone numbers to
call...his choice.army or navy.
He has a cousin who's a recruiter and she thinks he should be a candidate
for officer school since he already has a university degree.
We'll see if he likes the bootcamp experience since he sure doesn't like me
telling him what to do.


If he's able to get into your officer school, I'd sure encourage him to go
for it. Being an officer is a much nicer existence than being enlisted, and
the money is a little better.

He'll probably have to put up with a lot of **** in officer school though!