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    All things Health Care Admin/HCA (merged)

    Do you find the HCA trade to be fresh and dynamic without becoming too routine/mundane with lots of tedious paperwork being the majority of the tasks? - These days with Health Services there is very little in the way of routine/mundane. There will always be paperwork, but I don’t find myself...
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    Married Service Couples [MSC]

    Med Tech is a trade that could easily be co-located with a weapons tech. You are right, you'd likely be away from each other for a while during your qualification training, the chances are very high you'll be posted together afterwards. It is normally more difficult for the system to post you in...
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    Canadian Forces dentists' productivity questioned

    How about the fact we want our officers - no matter their trade - to have skills to be leaders in the CAF and we ask them to do roles that maybe are considered 'out of their trades'. Its all in the name of a strong, knowledgeable organization and for the better of the CAF. Perhaps if we allowed...
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    Insurance Coverage on Vacation

    I deal with this question on a regular basis and you are covered with a signed CF100 (as mentioned above) - however there is no guarantee the international medical provider will accept the Blue Cross card (even here in the US with our CAF dependants, for the most part if a provider sees a...
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    All things Health Care Admin/HCA (merged)

    During the recruiting process I too wrestled with going LOG O vs HCA. At the end of the day I ended up going HCA and am happy I did given my interests. If you have specific questions, feel free to drop me a PM, I've done a little bit of everything over the last few years (Field Ambulance...
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    Cutting the CF/DND HQ bloat - Excess CF Sr Leadership, Public Servants and Contractors

    Has anyone actually seen the report posted anywhere on-line or is it just in the hands of select media outlets? I think it would be an interesting read - much better than reading highlights from CBC, Globe & Mail, etc.
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    Real Estate Agent in Edmonton

    Deni Beauvais, she grew up in the North end, knows the area well and we've used her for 3 transactions - buy and sell our house in Edmonton and then buy a house in Wainwright. She also helped one of my MCpl's buy in Moronville. www.deni.ca.
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    IRP Custom Fund

    I am in the process of finalizing my file with Brookfield and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to use up more of the custom fund? Last posting I used it against my CMHC insurance, however this time I had enough downpayment to avoid CMHC. Any ideas? It's looking more and more like it...
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    Danny Williams lowers the Canadian Flag

    Sheep? I think you are way off base on that one and generalizing our whole province. I don't know you, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you misworded your generalization of a place that has quite a few excellent leaders/business people (Danny, Rick Hiller, etc) instead of getting...
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    Officer Pay Confusion, please clarify

    I pretty much did what you want to do - was a reservist during university and then DEO'd after I was done university. Here are some of the factors to think about before you get wrapped around the axel about starting at the roughly $42K DEO base salary (factors that made my salary a bit more than...
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    New Navy Rank Slip-ons

    From someone who is 'navy' (in quotes because I'm a purple trade; in reality there are no jobs whatsoever on a ship for my trade) and working in an army world, doing all army courses - I won't be wearing the new slip-ons. I like my dress of the day just the way it is - with a tiny anchor on my...
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    Calling all Medtechs

    Putting you down? My 2cents (coming from a Reg Force Field Ambulance), is that CDN Aviator suggesting you get an SQ course while you wait for QL3 is probably the best advice out there. Consider yourself fortunate that experienced people are giving you good advice. My advice for anyone waiting...
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    Task Force 3-09

    With the theme of TF3-09 - one lesson learned that we're seeing from some tours is that with the addition of reservists, we are having to do a lot of trg within the work-up that could be done before (meaning some of the valuable work-up time is spent doing crses for the tour). What I'm getting...
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    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Ack. I've actually read that directive from LFDTS for musicians - but it doesn't make any mention of being equivalent to CFPLQ (as far as I remember anyway) - it's more or less a musician specific directive. If anyone knows whether or not it (meaning PLQ(L) mods 1-5 + 6pt1)may translate into...
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    Primary Leadership Qualification Course (PLQ) Mega thread

    Reviving an old thread I know, however I think it fits here as it's PLQ related. Questions: 1) Has anyone done mods 1-5 PLQ(L) and then tried to complete the remaining PO's from CFPLQ to get the CFPLQ. For example, does 1-5 + Mod 6 part 1 = CFPLQ? 2) Does anyone have any references to being...
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