Navy Badges on Army / Air Force DEUs

[Kilted]

Back in the day, being made a "Serving Brother" (that should indicate the era I speak of) was an almost automatic award for the individuals who worked "DND Special Centre for First Aid" which in my day in SurgGen branch was in Director Medical Operations and Training (DMOT). Though they had other duties, the "Special Centre" was a Captain HCA and (IIRC) a WO Med A. The two HCAs that had the job during my time were both nominated at the end of their tenure. I recall that there had been a reorganization of first aid training during those years (but when has there not been continuous restructuring of FA trg in the CF) so there were probably adequate "accomplishments" to highlight in the nominations.

Annex B – The most venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem - Canada.ca

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I have always kind of wondered what some of the people that the CAF nominated with no other service to St John Ambulance did to be accepted into the Order when civilian side the number of people accepted each years seems to be getting smaller. The CAF won't be nominating anyone for the next couple of years before they finally realize how inadequate the Red Course course is and switch back to St John Ambulance.

 

[Ludoc]

Inadequate in what way? They taught me all the same stuff St John's did previously and covered tourniquets on top of that. Plus I got my certificate a week after, not the usual months later, after everyone on the course had been posted out.

 

[Kilted]

Inadequate in what way? They taught me all the same stuff St John's did previously and covered tourniquets on top of that. Plus I got my certificate a week after, not the usual months later, after everyone on the course had been posted out.

There are multiple subjects which are not covered, including triage. From an instructor point of view, SJA is designed in a way that was almost designed to be taught by military instructors which specific time lengths for lessons and specific instructions for lessons. The Red Cross course is largely designed to "make it up yourself" which leads to a lot of problems when you have multiple instructors trying to teach the same course. The Red Cross also does not include any of the military content.
Tourniquets had been added to the SJA course prior to the transition to Red Cross.