Well, it's official, last Friday (May 7) I secured one of the ACS Tech positions I mentioned in my last blog, A Small Course Correction: From AVN Tech to ACS Tech. I got a call Friday morning from one of the recruiters down at the recruiting centre wishing to speak to me about something. I wasn't home at the time, so my mum took down a message for me to call them back. When I had finally gotten in touch with somebody I was told that the Air Force had made me an offer for one of the positions. Naturally, I took the offer.
Afterwards, the recruiter I was speaking to asked me a few questions such as whether or not my medical status had changed in any way since I had taken my medical (no), what my marital status is (single, obviously), whether or not I have any dependants (I think it's safe to assume I haven't fathered any children), and whether or not I'll be taking my oath on the Bible (no thanks). He told me that my initial contract would be for 5 years, which is nothing I hadn't already known. But, most exciting of all was, finally being given a concrete date for when my Basic Training will begin. I'd already been told that the next Basic Training course would be in either October of November, but I wasn't sure which; now I know.
My Basic Training will begin on November 1st, which is absolutely perfect! I have all the time I need to prepare myself both physically and mentally. Sure I've already had a lot of time, but I've never had a concrete date, which makes a big difference. Personally, I'm quite pleased to be able to do my Basic during the Winter rather than the Summer. Not only that, I've the added bonus of having the Christmas break smack dab in the middle of my course, which means the Canadian Forces is going to be so kind as to pay me for to sit around and be with my family for 15 day! You can't beat that! All that's left now to make everything official is for me to be sworn in, which, most excitingly, I was also told will be taking place October 20 at 10:00. Given the fact that it'll be a significant day in my life I'll even be able to bring my family along; I wouldn't have it any other way.
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