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[The Blue Tory]

There is a You know you've been cadet when list... lets make a:

"YOU KNOW YOU'RE A RETIRED CADET WHEN..." List

1. your hair is longer now, than all the hair you've had cut off during your time as a cadet put together. (DAVE LAVICTOIRE!!! ya hippie)
2. you hang around the CW Legion
3. your uniform is hanging in pristine condition in your closet
4. you look into retirement homes instead of post secondary institutions
5. you find doing 50 situps strenuous, and wonder how you could have ever passed all those fitness test
6. you remember good times when seeing cadets tagging, and ask if so and so is still an officer in the unit
7. you visit the old folks home and reminisce about the good old days
8. you grow a beard, just for the fact that no one can tell you to shave anymore
9. you rush off or have plans to join the CIC

add more

[CI Dumaran]

10. You have difficulty not designating people around you by their Position and last name.
11. Your beret is in concrete perfect form sitting on your dresser collecting dust.
12. Your can of brass-o goes unused.
13. You have difficulty deciding what to do on that "extra" day a week you now have.
14. You have trouble deciding your priority: CIC application or university applications.

LOL nice list Goody!

[The Blue Tory]

15. Polish and cloths can no longer be found in your house when you need to shine your shoes for a job interview or special occasion.
16. You view rez as a deluxe version of camp
17. You've passed your mid life crisis years ago, yet you take solace in knowing that you'll never be older than Sylena and Gungod
18. Your fitness level drops significantly
19. You go running off to Korea to wreak havoc and torture foreign kids (Sylena!!!) and bring your crayons along with you (Caro!!!)

[CI Dumaran]

15. Polish and cloths can no longer be found in your house when you need to shine your shoes for a job interview or special occasion.
16. You view rez as a deluxe version of camp
17. You've passed your mid life crisis years ago, yet you take solace in knowing that you'll never be older than Sylena and Gungod
18. Your fitness level drops significantly
19. You go running off to Korea to wreak havoc and torture foreign kids (Sylena!!!) and bring your crayons along with you (Caro!!!)

HAHAHAHAHA... ROTFL!!! :D ...

19 is mine... Well soon. I hope to work or live in Seoul with my wife, sometime.

[CProctor]

HAHAHAHAHA... ROTFL!!! :D ...

19 is mine... Well soon. I hope to work or live in Seoul with my wife, sometime.

I highly recommend it :)

Seoul's great :D

[lord_rupert]

You have to fight an urge to call people in authority Sir!

ROO :D

[CI Dumaran]

I highly recommend it :)

Seoul's great :D

Oh goodness! My last time there was too short!!!

My wife has lots of family there so I can't wait to stay longer than a 3 days.

:D


You have to fight an urge to call people in authority Sir!
LOL... yeah... but I continue doing it because it's "highly respectful"

ROO... LOL

[grass_roots]

1. your hair is longer now, than all the hair you've had cut off during your time as a cadet put together. (DAVE LAVICTOIRE!!! ya hippie)

haha, actually I finally cut it back in January, the dreadlocks were to0 hot in the scorching African heat

I now have a very respectable shag

[ctjj.stevenson]

20. A bottle of Glide brand starch lasts longer than 4 hours (because one bottle is enough to iron your gunshirt)
21. The only person that actually uses starch to iron clothes now is your mum.
22. You will begin working at McDonald's just to have the chance of to live in an organised rank structure, and you actually iron your Mickey D's uniform perfectly.
23. You critize your university professor's teaching technique because the he or she does not use games to teach their student, like you did when your where an instructor at cadets.

Good day

[The Blue Tory]

my god #23 is so true... my Human Relations prof, she was so bloody incompetent!!! When I was silver instructor, I saw my cadets teach better mutuals than her

[jgoguen]

You have to fight an urge to call people in authority Sir! Who fights it :p


You critize your university professor's teaching technique because the he or she does not use games to teach their student, like you did when your where an instructor at cadets. Actually....I happen to find such evaluation techniques very useful for the evaluations I do on my profs. Much easier to rip them apart while still sounding polite :D

[The Blue Tory]

the class we got to do evaluation for the incompetent one. That was one of the rare times I got there on time...

Then again I don't hate her much... she just lacks skills thats all... she gave me higher mark than almost everyone so I'm happy

[Medic_Marleau]

24. Sleep usually wins over shaving in the morning..... who shaves anyways.

[CI Dumaran]

I too subscribe to #23... Good one!

[ctjj.stevenson]

For 23, thanks to all for your comments. All that I know is that I will use the teaching techniques that I learned from my CO, and during my CQÉO (oups, I mean BOQ, and seeing that my CO was my senior instructor, the teaching technique that I learned at the Eastern RCIS did not change), when I will become a high school history teacher.

Good day to all!

[jhunter]

Seoul's great :D

Yes, but don't ignore the countrysides too. Also, there is a castle in Chinju on the south coast I've been to which is well worth the trip.

[CProctor]

Yes, but don't ignore the countrysides too. Also, there is a castle in Chinju on the south coast I've been to which is well worth the trip.

I live in the country (apparently), but work in Seoul. Yongin-shi is the country?? Who knew?

Got plans for a trip out to the mountains and going to take the ferry over to Japan for a few days.

[Aprile]

25. anytime you walk past a flag or monument you have to restrain yourself from checking your arms
26. You join up as an officer so you don't die from withdrawl
27. You write a list like this... or have something to add :p

[MThornback]

28. when you walk through your city or town, and you can pick out names and/or faces of cadets that have served under you. (Happens to me all the time when i'm in Uxbridge)

[ctjj.stevenson]

29. You've been in the movement for so long, that you will walk down the street, and someone that you don't know will say, "I know you from somewhere, er.... didn't I see you at blank summer camp?"

[Dixon]

Whoa...being retired puts whole new perspective on this...
30. About this time of year you eagerly await Camp/Staff selections...
Only to realize..there will be none for me this year,,,
31. You call up your old camp friends and plan trips, and sign off the phone using proper radio comms.
32. you get teary-eyed when you see the bus pull away with all your former cadets who ARE going to camp this year...
33. you head to the nearest CFRC Branch and Enlist

[The Blue Tory]

34. You go to a job interview... and most of your answers about previous experiences of yours surround things that happened to you as a cadet... (hey that just happened to me! my interview on Tuesday that got me my job... the questions were hard and I couldn't think of anything so I just answered almost every question using examples from when I was a cadet... If it weren't for cadets I'd have no answer for all those questions, and would have not got the job)

35. You assume everyone who is cleanly shaven with short hair or a female with their hair in a bun, was a cadet...

36. You attend parades that your old corps participate in just so you can see how well your old cadets perform

[ctjj.stevenson]

34. You go to a job interview... and most of your answers about previous experiences of yours surround things that happened to you as a cadet... (hey that just happened to me! my interview on Tuesday that got me my job... the questions were hard and I couldn't think of anything so I just answered almost every question using examples from when I was a cadet... If it weren't for cadets I'd have no answer for all those questions, and would have not got the job)


That is so true ... On my CV, half of it is just cadet related stuff. And most of my working experiance was with cadets, just before enter the Golden Arches Army. Good one TaktikL Philosophy!

[SLt T. Clausen]

That is so true ... On my CV, half of it is just cadet related stuff. And most of my working experiance was with cadets, just before enter the Golden Arches Army. Good one TaktikL Philosophy!
37. You call it a curriculum vitae instead of a résumé.

The beard one is definitely me lol.

[The Blue Tory]

That is so true ... On my CV, half of it is just cadet related stuff. And most of my working experiance was with cadets, just before enter the Golden Arches Army. Good one TaktikL Philosophy!
same with my resume pure cadet packed with the odd other stuff on it...

and since i'm at it,

#38... You come up with acronyms for anything and everything
#39... You refer to fastfood takeout as IMPs... and strangely enough (especially with some McD's) it has about the same taste quality

[CI Dumaran]

27. You write a list like this... or have something to add
HAHA ohhh yes

#39... You refer to fastfood takeout as IMPs... and strangely enough (especially with some McD's) it has about the same taste quality
Man, that happened to me this weekend... LOL sometimes the IMPs are better.

[The Blue Tory]

#40... you start checking your mailbox, and eventually begin complaining that your pension hasn't begun coming yet

[CI Dumaran]

#40... you start checking your mailbox, and eventually begin complaining that your pension hasn't begun coming yet
HAHA... nice Goody...

Well, all that cash we send in for our CCM must add up. :D

[ctjj.stevenson]

#39... You refer to fastfood takeout as IMPs... and strangely enough (especially with some McD's) it has about the same taste quality

I work for a McDonald's, and I will have to say that IMPs are of better quality than McDonald's food.


You call it a curriculum vitae instead of a résumé
Well, I live in Québec, so I got used into using French terms while I speak in English. Actually, I don't recall hearing the résumé since Secondary 5 (or grade 11 - the last year of High School here). Since then, I've always heard people say CV instead.

Bonne journée à tous!

[Ollie]

41. When you clame to know everything about the military because "i was a cadet, you know?"
OR
You back up very useless fact with "i learned that as a Cadet Master Petty Warrent Officer [insert cadet life history here]"

[ctjj.stevenson]

42. The parents of your friends have known for years that you were in a some-what military oriented organisation, know that you are older, asume that you have become a member of the Canadian Forces, and begin to ask you very technical questions about the military.

[The Blue Tory]

43. Because you were in so long... everyone in your extended family (cousins, aunts, and uncles) still think you are in cadets even though you repeatedly tell them you are finished

[ctjj.stevenson]

43. Because you were in so long... everyone in your extended family (cousins, aunts, and uncles) still think you are in cadets even though you repeatedly tell them you are finished

Not only family, but friends, teachers, co-workers, etc.

[Dixon]

44. Your MWO Uncle, CWO Uncle, Lt. Cousin, MCpl Father and B/CWO Aunt ask, so whens grad from BMQ, and wheres the after party?

[ctjj.stevenson]

44. Your MWO Uncle, CWO Uncle, Lt. Cousin, MCpl Father and B/CWO Aunt ask, so whens grad from BMQ, and wheres the after party?

What is a BMQ?

[The Blue Tory]

Basic Military Qualification Course?

[KarlSchultz]

ROTFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!! most of this was soooo true for me right after I retired. I let my hair grow for like 2 months before and only got it cut to go back to gliding. I only shaved for job interviews and everywhere I went people asked me "Wern't you in cadets like 5 years ago??"
My CIC app was in 3 months before I retired, I call my supervison Sir and/ or Ma'am depending on whos working. Patrick just revels in being called Sir and Jen HATES it when I call her Ma'am!!! lol

LOL!!!!! that list is great. unfortunatley I have nothing to add :( its all been touched upon.

[Meathead]

Basic Military Qualification Course?

Thats correct.

[cejay]

43. Because you were in so long... everyone in your extended family (cousins, aunts, and uncles) still think you are in cadets even though you repeatedly tell them you are finished

That keeps happening to me, and I've been out for a year now. I sometimes consider making a sign to wear that says 'RETIRED CADET'. Its real tempting sometimes.

[LDuarte]

Whoa, haven't been on CW in over a year. I see things have changed.. again. Heh.


32. you get teary-eyed when you see the bus pull away with all your former cadets who ARE going to camp this year...

Aye... i've had to live through that twice now. Third time is just around the corner. :(

At our unit, we have one training night per year where 10 lucky cadets get to exchange roles with the officers.

#44 - You look forward to the Cadet/Officer exchange night so you get to parade and do drill once more.

[Scuba_Guy]

Ive been finding many of these apply to my life now.
Though I think because of my job Im in better shape.
I do find myself teaching classes, remembering tips and tricks I learned back when I was instucting back at the corps.

[toad]

45. you give all the good parts of your uniform (boots, web belt, signal pins) to your younger brother or sister and they hand in their old parts for yours

46. when looking for all your uniform parts to hand in you fin random pieces that you haven't worn for years (like gaitors)

47. when you go somewhere you make a "kit list" so you don't forget anything

[chippie]

48. When your class/ company plan an outting, you use SMESC and Ops Order for them.
49. You refuse to reply for anything unless it's summit to you in a Memo.

[chippie]

43. Because you were in so long... everyone in your extended family (cousins, aunts, and uncles) still think you are in cadets even though you repeatedly tell them you are finished

It happens to me all the time. All my relatives say what do you do in cadet these day and I have to tell them nicely that I no longer a part of them. I moved on since and become a CI which to them it's still call cadet :rolleyes: My teachers and boss does the same thing :o

[The Blue Tory]

Apparently this list isn't worthy of being put onto features... even though it was put together and numbered and all prepped up and sent in to the mods... 2 months ago...

[jgoguen]

Just out of curiosity...who sent the list up...you might find a good reason there why it hasn't been included ;)

Plus, they still haven't put details of how the bars work. We know it's based on how long you've been on CW, but what exactly are the periods of time to get one more bar? That was supposed to be put on the features, and it's still not done. Hate to break it to you, but I think something about CW is probably a bit higher up on the to-do list than some list that's quite fine where it is ;)

And another idea, CadetWorld is for the cadets. Sure we were cadets at one time, but this place really should be about the current cadets, not us old farts who've aged out and gone. If you can't handle letting them have the attention, there's another good reason not to include this list in features.

The staff has been kind enough to give retired cadets this forum. Is that not good enough? What do you want, a whole message board dedicated to retired cadets (and especially TP of course) :rolleyes: Really now...I always tell other people I work with, if you're not here for the cadets, find somewhere else to be.

[The Blue Tory]

Just out of curiosity...who sent the list up...you might find a good reason there why it hasn't been included ;)

Plus, they still haven't put details of how the bars work. We know it's based on how long you've been on CW, but what exactly are the periods of time to get one more bar? That was supposed to be put on the features, and it's still not done. Hate to break it to you, but I think something about CW is probably a bit higher up on the to-do list than some list that's quite fine where it is ;)

And another idea, CadetWorld is for the cadets. Sure we were cadets at one time, but this place really should be about the current cadets, not us old farts who've aged out and gone. If you can't handle letting them have the attention, there's another good reason not to include this list in features.

The staff has been kind enough to give retired cadets this forum. Is that not good enough? What do you want, a whole message board dedicated to retired cadets (and especially TP of course) :rolleyes: Really now...I always tell other people I work with, if you're not here for the cadets, find somewhere else to be.
Hey... there was... but we all know how it ended up...

[jgoguen]

perhaps in the future you could make it clearer what part of a quote you're referring to? Such as deleting everything but what you're referring to perhaps? I know what you're referring to, but perhaps some people here aren't as familiar as you and I are. And yes, I know how it ended, and I don't think it ended up not too bad. Where do you think this forum came from? If you really have such a big problem with how the idea was used, take it up with Syl (VERY politely I might add). Maybe the person who created that other board could also be responsible for giving the staff reason to remove this forum :rolleyes: Isn't it good enough knowing that someone on staff obviously thought it was a good idea? What do you want to do, go Microsoft on CW and charge licensing fees for your idea :rolleyes: I know I'd be pretty happy if one of my ideas led to the creation of a whole new forum on CW.

[The Blue Tory]

perhaps in the future you could make it clearer what part of a quote you're referring to? Such as deleting everything but what you're referring to perhaps? I know what you're referring to, but perhaps some people here aren't as familiar as you and I are. And yes, I know how it ended, and I don't think it ended up not too bad. Where do you think this forum came from? If you really have such a big problem with how the idea was used, take it up with Syl (VERY politely I might add). Maybe the person who created that other board could also be responsible for giving the staff reason to remove this forum :rolleyes: Isn't it good enough knowing that someone on staff obviously thought it was a good idea? What do you want to do, go Microsoft on CW and charge licensing fees for your idea :rolleyes: I know I'd be pretty happy if one of my ideas led to the creation of a whole new forum on CW.
wow... someone took this out of context...

it was a list for the fun stuff bit... that's all...

There is a list about Korea which has absolutely nothing to do with cadets... this is somewhat...

Joel, you don't know all the facts so stay out

[jgoguen]

In what you quoted, I wasn't even talking about this list. I was talking about your attempt to create a forum. Maybe before you blow up you might want to make sure what you say is at least relevant to the quote you include. I know you intended for this list to go to the Fun Stuff area. Maybe the staff is too busy with other stuff to get it put up. Or maybe they're not putting it up. If you really do have a problem and you really do want to know what the status of your request is, I would suggest talking to Syl. Or one of the other staff.

As for the Korean Transportation Guide, I think we can let the GM put up one thing. Do you want to tell her to take it down cause it's not cadet-related? I sure won't. She's already demonstrated many times that she cares more for the cadets than herself and that she wants to have the focus on the cadets, both on and off the forums.

How many times have you gone into or started a discussion not knowing the facts? Or at the very least being so biased to one idea you didn't bother to review the facts, just opinions of other people of the same bias as you? I'd say most of the political discussions you've started. Not all, but most. Yes I do know what happened with the idea you had to make that message board. If you really want to know why Syl included it here and made you shut yours down, ask her. She'll tell you at least what you need to know, although I wouldn't be surprised if she accused you of beating a dead horse after you tell so many others to stop beating a dead horse ;)

[The Blue Tory]

blah blah blah...

50. You compare your work uniform to your cadet uniform...

[army_gurl_74]

Both of you need to calm down...

I dunno if this one has been included..

51. You still wake up at 6 o clock in the morning thinking you have to wake up to form up on the road, but then you realise that you really dont have anything to do that day.

[CKeenan]

51. You still wake up at 6 o clock in the morning thinking you have to wake up to form up on the road, but then you realise that you really dont have anything to do that day.

lol that's a good one!! good old waking up early at weekend exercises... can't wait till next year!

[Kay_Robinson]

52...You have at least one piercing, or facial piercings, and miss the days when u had to take them out now u are just like everyone else,..commitment free.
53...You remind you little brothers or sisters that there 12th birthday is only 8 months away and you cant waite till u can drive them and see them form up on the same praade square.


THe job interview one is so true...i always tell stories to ppl about...oh when i used to be in cadets...

And i can never find a lint brush anywhere...i think after i retired they just all evaporated.

[army_gurl_74]

54. You still drink powerade on a daily basis.
55. You used to complain about the mess food, but now you miss it so much.

[Morrison]

56. When you polish your workboots with Parade Gloss still.
57. When you actually compare your superiors to a hierarchial rank structure such as in Cadets.

57 is odd. My supervisor I compare to a SSgt. I'm a lowly LCpl, being above but only one class of worker :P

[wlfcat]

58. You really start to fall in love with someone because they were a cadet too, even if it was on the other side of the country, and you move to a new coast and get married! And work in the same unit now as staff!!!! :confused:

[CProctor]

Reason we haven't yet put this list up is because we're waiting for one of you guys to put it all into nice HTML format.

TP sent me a version which needed more corrections than if I'd done it myself, so I sent back a list asking for those to be made, then if he'd be so kind as to send it back, and we'll upload it.

If you don't have the time to make those changes, TP, I suggest somebody else take it on instead. With only two of us working on the non-forums side (and working forums-side, too!), and with Syl away for the summer, and me working, I just don't have time to format everything and do it all myself.

Many thanks, and keep up the good ideas,

[The Blue Tory]

Reason we haven't yet put this list up is because we're waiting for one of you guys to put it all into nice HTML format.

TP sent me a version which needed more corrections than if I'd done it myself, so I sent back a list asking for those to be made, then if he'd be so kind as to send it back, and we'll upload it.

If you don't have the time to make those changes, TP, I suggest somebody else take it on instead. With only two of us working on the non-forums side (and working forums-side, too!), and with Syl away for the summer, and me working, I just don't have time to format everything and do it all myself.

Many thanks, and keep up the good ideas,
I have it on to do list... i'll bump it up for ya and get it to you tomorrow after work so about 0100 on Monday morning EST

[Kat]

6. you remember good times when seeing cadets tagging, and ask if so and so is still an officer in the unit



I actually will do that!! lol
But I did that when I was a cadet too, just asking if people were still in.....

[Lynx_Armourer]

59. You go reg force, and spend most of your drill periods either making notes about the screw-ups your instructors made (it happens) or helping your platoon mates learn about turns & stuff.

"I don't see a pitbull, Master Corporal!" -A bleeding Pte(B) Saunders