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In case anyone is still interested, Hyena Road is now on the Canadian Netflix.

I'm not sure about the Air Reserve but the majority of officer recruits in the NavRes are university students and courses are held in the summer specifically to accommodate them.  Some people get sent to St Jean at other times of the year but it can be difficult to get loaded on such a course.

There is another article about him here from the Edmonton Journal: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Gramps+still+combat/2288610/story.html

HMCS Carleton.  Still nothing definite about summer training yet.

I got sworn in last week so hopefully I'll be there.  No confirmed dates or anything yet.

I have recently been informed by my local Nav Res unit that this trade is now closed due to a backlog of people waiting for the Basic Intelligence Officer Course. Does anyone have any more information on this?  In particular does anyone have any idea how long this closure will last?

In the process of joining the Naval Reserve.

The Heart of Valor - by Tanya Huff I have read all of them.  Huff (who is Canadian) usually writes fantasy and my wife buys all her stuff.  I enjoyed them.  She is a good writer but the circumstances in the books are sometimes a bit contrived.  I.e. they keep ending up in situations where the...

The Heart of Valor - by Tanya Huff Third (I think) in a Sci-Fi series about Confederation Marines Gunnery Sargeant Torin Kerr.  In this volume she tries to keep a group of marine recruits alive on a training mission gone wrong.  Not bad so far but probably not your thing if you don't like...