Reserves Vs. Regular Force

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Reserves Vs. Regular Force

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Interviewer: For those who don’t understand the difference between joining the reserves and joining the Canadian Forces, give us a sense of what the differences might be? Well the big difference is the reserve world is a part-time job. It’s got to be definitely the best part-time job in the country. It’s like you go to work at McDonalds. You are scheduled to work two days a week. In the reserve world, I would say 90% of the people in the reserve world work what we call a real job in the daytime. So most reserve units work two days a week and two weekends a month and it’s strictly volunteer. You enrol, if you want to get released it takes probably a week or two and you’re out again. So the biggest difference between the reserves and the regular force in that regular force are full time, that’s their job. They go 24 hours a day. When they are told to go somewhere, they have to go. In the reserve world if someone came up and asked you, “We’re sending you here now!” You can say, “Hmm, no not going,” because this is a part-time job, it’s a voluntary thing and I have my full-time job besides this and my employer may not even let me go. So it sort of works that way. One is a part-time, one is a full-time.

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Mr. Hickey provides a strong comparison between the two types of service within the Canadian military.

Bill Hickey

Mr. Bill Hickey was born July 5, 1956 in a small town outside of St., John’s, Newfoundland. As a young boy, Mr. Hickey always has great involvement with sports and recreation. Realizing his desire for community work, Mr. Hickey held a career as a Police Officer and as well at a very young age joined the Reserves in role as chief warrant officer having opportunities to deploy to different areas of the world. Together with this Police and Reservist career, Mr. Hickey expresses his great sense of pride for his achievements and opportunities throughout his years in service. After 34.5 years of police service, Mr. Hickey has retired and now resides in St. John’s Newfoundland with his family. As part of the delegation of Newfoundland Veterans, Mr. Hickey accepted the opportunity as part of the 100th Anniversary of Battles of Somme and Beaumont-Hamel to travel overseas to commemorate this special event.

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