Well I'm planning on going Armoured if I do (and if my vision is good enough - it wasn't for Infantry when I applied for the Reserves), so I would definitely get at least one tour, probably in 2010 (depending on how fast the application goes through). The government says we're going to pull out in 2011 so I probably wouldn't get another, but if we stay longer I most certainly would. And if I don't I'd likely get a tour somewhere else (Bosnia, a UN mission, etc).
This would be a huge step for me. It would get me out of Halifax (I'd be training in Meaford, ON and Gagetown, NB and posted to a unit either in Ottawa or Edmonton), and the pay is good. It's available to me right now, and I know I'd at least find it extremely interesting. I wouldn't mind a tour, either. But at the same time I'm more or less signing my life over to the DND for the next 5/6 years. By that time I'd be financially set up to do whatever I like, and I'd certainly have my student loans paid off.
I've been considering this since I got back from Boot Camp, and now it's becoming more and more of a possibility. I don't want to get stuck in Halifax doing something boring/low-paying simply because I have bills to pay and can't afford to start over in something else. Now's the time to do it if I'm ever going to.
I have to go into the unit tonight to do a little work, so I think I'll ask about getting the transfer in motion when I'm there.
