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Dimsun, That’s innacurate, once wing qualified, new ACSOs are posted to Sqn flying line numbers, hence why they are entitled to aircrew allowance without being MOAT qualified. We constantly have this problem with the AES Ops, were a new member comes in, then a qualified member must be posted...

When you’re ACSO Wing qualifies and posted into a flying line number. Your aircrew start. A lot of us got an aircrew backpay because the RCAF didn’t follow the policy. We used to get aircrew allowance once OFP, but that changed last year I believe.

Order is only 3 posting messages CM can release per day.

I hope he wins and sue the government for every penny!

IMO if the RCN want to add patches, badges or whatever, I say good for them. If they can recruit more people because of it, even better. Some young kid will probably see the uniform and might be the trigger for joining the Navy. Who knows?

My understanding is AES Op will start filling the FWSAR Sqns in batches of 8 per courses or so. Hence why we’re going with courses of 18 students.

33 new positions will be added to the SAR Sqns.

Sadly the CA is not the only element switching patches very 5 years. From the brief we got, the RCAF is reverting back to the “only green” patches for the flight suits. The Div order should be release shortly. Here’s to another $40 of patches for the uniform.

Not sure about the CA but the RCAF wear the fleece blue tuque with operational dress. The older light blue scratchy one is for DEU only.

The course in Winnipeg is BAQC. As mentioned above, it’s now one course of approximately 6 months. Before you start BAQC, you’ll probably complete a few courses (Land survival, AMT, Sea Survival and BEW).

It depends on which province the base is located. For example in Winnipeg they are looking at building separate smoking area for cannabis consumers.

The official CANFORGEN is out on DWAN

Yes they are MCpls and even Sgts by now. IMO they are young, keen, and eager to change the trade for the better.

My top three that IMO would improve the issue: 1. Money for A/C modernization and infrastructure; 2. Get rid of the non sense secondary duties; and 3. Introduce retention bonuses.

When we recruit direct entry AES Op, once BMQ completed, we post them to the nearest base/Wing/armoury to their home. They are on TD while attending BAQC here in Winnipeg. Once they graduate, they get posted to one of their choices.

We crunched the numbers and we need at least 45 new AES Ops per year out of 402 in order to keep up with the attrition and the new upcoming positions.

Right now we are mandated to graduate approx 24 AES Ops per year. We could do more for sure. They are COAs to use parallel training via private contractors.

Yes recruitment needs fixing. For example they’re only recruiting 9 direct entry AESOP this fiscal year, despite the fact our trade is in significant demand. I like VOTs, but robbing Peter to pay Paul doesn’t help. Our training system was designed on the 90s numbers. For example here at 402, our...

I was referring to the outside work weekend tasking, show the uniform sort of thing. I can only speak from my experience, but I've noticed a significant increase in those sort of tasking and secondary duties. For example just to name one; originally what had started as a simple RCAF run to...

Imo cutting the excess of secondary duties and the ever increasing amount of dog and pony show tasking would be a good start.