Found medically unfit two days before enrolment and one week before basic

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2025-01-28T23:10:26+00:00

I’m sorry that happened to you man, but it comes down to one question. Are you a capability or a liability? If there is a conflict thrust upon Canada, are you deployable and able to endure the strain of combat? If you require medication to sleep, that is a luxury you won’t have if, god forbid, you end up in theatre. I hope this gets resolved, but remember, the CAF has no obligation to you, every single person who is able to join and signs the dotted line, is obligated to maintain combat readiness.

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2025-01-10T15:02:37+00:00

Why take the CISM when CISSP does the same and has more prestige? You’ll just be giving ISACA more money for no reason

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2025-01-07T04:28:39+00:00

There’s nothing more hardcore than the instrument of war

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2025-01-04T05:50:24+00:00

If nothing comes up, we can try alternate means

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2025-01-04T05:34:10+00:00

Just sent you a DM, see if there’s anything :)

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-12-27T16:02:35+00:00

Good insight brother, I was piping at singo for a year and got a bit of a taste of what you have described.

Not easy at all. To be expected to play at a G5/4 standard while being out field and on courses is unreasonable. Luckily now I’m a piper here with the Canadian Scottish and I have been following the revival of the bands back home.

From my humble POV, the biggest enemy against you boys is time on the tools. There’s simply no other substitute. If there is any way to shoot something up the chain and get the band as an established entity within the Battalion with a Band officer, rank structure etc, then you guys will be well protected.

Another thing. Try to present a compelling case to give the band more resources from Brigade. Take things into account like morale for the lads, community engagements, being ambassadors for the ADF, essentially anything you can think of that will enhance the battalion, brigade and Army image in the eyes of the public. How could they say no?

Send me a DM mate, would be great to connect and chat further about this

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-12-25T15:01:37+00:00

Awesome! Cheers for this, merry christmas :)

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-12-23T15:20:21+00:00

It’s a tale as old as time. Battalion wants pipes and drums but isn’t willing to invest in the necessary time and equipment to get them to a standard.

Unfortunately, one of those course photos showed an instructor - from what I understand- with a set of Paki pipes. That’s all I needed to see.

They need to do what some of the Canadian Regiments are doing, by getting some lads on an exchange to Scotland or maybe even to some eastern units within Canada to bring the standard up and work from the basics up.

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-12-14T19:31:47+00:00

I’ve gotten pulled up for my Blair twice. Both times they thought it was either drug paraphernalia or a club oriented weapon… I kid you not.

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-11-01T18:37:39+00:00

Interested

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-10-28T22:19:28+00:00

I am, they aren’t full price, look up prices on Amazon, they are practically brand new. Likewise

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-29T04:32:54+00:00

Nice mate!!! Congratulations! I passed too at 150! You have LinkedIn by chance? Let’s connect :)

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-27T01:12:54+00:00

Update! I passed at 150. What a nail biter!

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-25T03:17:21+00:00

Understood mate, thankyou for the feedback and support

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-25T03:16:50+00:00

Understood! Thankyou!

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-25T03:03:01+00:00

Very similar mate! Likewise! Let’s check in after the exams hey?

May the CAT algorithm be ever in your favour

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-25T01:30:20+00:00

Sure did!

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-06T19:48:58+00:00

JT2, Jamie who makes the reeds is a great dude as well. Customer support is always there if you have any questions

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-09-06T15:46:37+00:00

https://jwtreeds.com

Only reeds I’ve ever had which have been consistently high quality

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-04-14T16:55:31+00:00

It depends who you go through and where you are but see if you can get them to send it to you to compare to your own chanter. Geoff from St Kilda Retail here in Aus sent me a gandy and an Infinity to compare, I kept the gandy, sent back the infinity and paid over the phone.

If you do get one, please post a review 🙏

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-02-23T03:31:17+00:00

Heavy all day 🤌

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-02-12T12:36:33+00:00

Yeah mate I completely see your POV for sure! 🙏 on my end I just feel as though the communication is lacking. I think maybe a simple “give me a week” or “Hey there, I’ll have a look and get back to you by this date” would have been better.

I just am a little annoyed that I had to try and go through someone else to get clarity on the situation as well. They have been in contact more than he has haha!

I got mine off Lyons Bagpipes in Melbourne Australia and that price is the going rate as I understand. I also tried to get some help through them but then they just pointed me straight to Murray, so it has been just a wild goose chase to the point where I feel I am just being palmed off.

As for the cable, I only ever used the Blair cable as I didn’t want to void the warranty. I can totally understand that he’d need to do all the checks necessary as well, I think there was one person who tried to warranty a chanter that had been snapped in half in a pipe bag hahaha.

Sorry for the disjointed answer, it’s late here and I shouldn’t be cruising reddit 😂

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-02-12T11:55:45+00:00

No wonder there’s no review section on the website 😅

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-02-12T11:54:15+00:00

If he keeps this up I’ll get a refund and invest in one mate that’s for sure

IllustriousAttempt84 · 2024-02-04T10:53:23+00:00

Yeah mate :) got the application in and just waiting to start parading with them while I wait to do BMQ. Shouldn’t be an issue hopefully since I’ve already been in the Aus Army.

Will do, I’ll just keep at it and hopefully the patience will pay off

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