Surprisingly, many of the hard sea trades have hit there mark this year. Funny enough, the bean counters in Ottawa seem quite content to allow us to operate under manned but curse me for thinking they may allow us to go over our numbers and bring eager beavers such as yourself in.
Yes, I know for some of you who`s job is dependent on the `numbers`, you may take offence-not the intent. I ask any one of you to take a typical week around your work place and Friday afternoon before you leave, have a look at man-hours lost from leave, sickness, coursing, admin time, PT etc and you may be shocked. With our one man-one job mentality and a minimum 12-15% loss of man hours over any given time, we shouldn`t really be turning ANYONE away - IMHO.
Having said all that, my CM just told me to prep for promotion, posting to that place with `no Navy` and become one of `them`. Oh no!
Doesn`t answer your question though but as I told someone else in another thread - I suspect you will get a phone call early on 1 April. In case you didn`t realize that is the start of the government`s fiscal year - AKA the coffers get filled with cash again!!!