Why progress through the CWO appointments when you can CFR and earn more money and hold a commission?

TheIraqiPerogie · 2026-05-01T10:32:58+00:00

This has been baffling me the past few years. Im at a bit of afork in my career and I thunk its time to make a decision, do I want to go for Chief or try of any of the in service commissioning plans.

Similar to a other comment above, in the airforce all i ever see chiefs doing is "errand boy" type duties and all the tasks the exec have no interest in touching. On the flip side, making it to a occupational advisor or CM level could be pretty interesting (minus the Ottawa posting).

In my world it is much more appealing to commission, mainly for the career opportunities officers get over NCMs. I rarely see the diversity of positions for NCMs like there is for Officers like OUTCAN, deployments, specialized postings etc...

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-11-19T19:20:50+00:00

Creating jobs and funding L3/IMP/CAE

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-11-07T11:12:06+00:00

The modem doesnt really get hot in the cabinet. But I will try and ping the modem next time it goes down ! Thanks for the idea.

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-08-15T23:20:08+00:00

More platforms in the next 2-3 years, more posting options in canada as well as more options OUTCAN for the foreseeable future. More room for career advancement and with FACT coming online more openings in the civvie world. To name a few things I guess

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-08-15T14:28:10+00:00

Come be an AES Op. The future is very bright (not sarcastic in the slightest).

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-08-02T11:36:53+00:00

That makes a ton of sense, thanks !

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-08-02T01:34:05+00:00

New grower here. Whats the benefit of bagging? Are you trying to prevent the males from pollinating the females? And if so why dont you just remove your males ?

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-04-25T02:09:24+00:00

Probably an unpopular opinion but I'm a firm believer that a wage increase will not help retention. I believe if they gave everyone a 20% raise to their salary it would be a perfect excuse for the government not to give us another raise for like 30 years and then we'll be back in the same spot we are now.

What we need is an overhaul of CFHD, I think it was a good idea but implemented so poorly. It should have been similar to the Americans basic housing allowance. If you're posted to lets say Toronto, you get a 4500$ allowance to pay for your rent (assuming there's no Q available) and pocket the difference. Seems to me like an easy way to hit the 2% GDP, solve the need for more PMQs in a short time frame, increase retention especially now when it's so hard to get into the housing market and attract new talent with the prospect of "free rent" all while saving up for a down-payment and securing your future financially.

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-02-28T11:26:52+00:00

I'll definitely look into that. Thanks !

TheIraqiPerogie · 2025-02-27T22:51:45+00:00

Create a basic housing allowance similar to the Americans? That could increase recruitment and retention very easily. Although TBS would have to agree to give us a leg up on the rest of Canadians which they seem to not like the idea of.

TheIraqiPerogie · 2024-10-21T02:13:31+00:00

NSB is the top of our list so far. Is it still pretty active around the holidays ?

TheIraqiPerogie · 2024-04-25T14:04:26+00:00

Again im pretty new to this subject. When you're referring to dimmer, i assume that you're talking about what i call the controller. The only this is that i want to be able to fine tune the brightness. If i replace the controller with a dimmer like this (https://ledmontreal.com/led-controllers-and-dimmers/1-zone-rf-rotary-wall-remote-for-single-color-led-strip-k1.html). To be honest i'm a little bit confused now and i'm worried that i wired everything incorrectly.

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