martin14 martin14:
speaking as someone with years of experience, no doubt

Just poking with a stick, I wasn't being serious. While most of the women in my family are in the medical industry, the majority of the males in my family are/were in the military, or fishermen
(depending on which side of the family we're looking at)My father and brother were with the
"1st Battalion The Nova Scotia Highlanders" and I would have been in as well if it wasn't for the foolish recruiting rules applied in the year I was joining.... passed everything with flying colors except apparently my pushups, which were judged by some YMCA fool from Halifax. Had to do something like 22 pushups and after having this idiot say I was doing it wrong and to start over, I guess I did about 40 "Wrong" pushups.... even though my dad helped train me and was also a former school gym teacher.
Failed me, said if I wanted to take the test again, I'd have to venture into Halifax to the Y and pay him $30 to take the test again.
Went a few weeks later to do it again, trained more, figured I had it all figured out..... then he screwed me over with the pushups again. My dad gave him a few words on what push ups look like, ended up still failing, paid him the $30 and when we got to the car......
.... 5 mins late, $30 ticket. FFS!
That was it.... I never bothered any further then that. The funny thing was two years before when my brother got in, these idiot tests wern't in place that I was going through.
Apparenty when Afghanistan started up, they found that recruitment levels were dropping a lot, mainly due to people being failed for things they should be trained to do, like they did with my brother, who shouldn't be expected to be experts before they even signed up.
So last I heard, they canned that procedure. I could be mistaken.
That's the way she goes I guess.... now I sit in front of a computer and draw pretty pictures.
I'm doing my part
I guess cadets was as far as I went for that career