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RIP Marty  :salute:

We had a couple MCpls CFR a couple years back, and they ended up 2Lts.

Probing attack in preparation for something larger?

Each Regiment does pretty much the same thing. Bridging, watermanship, demolitions, mine warfare, etc, etc, etc. I'd hardly call any CER "Construction Experts"  ;D 

No details have been "officially" released as to where or when the internment will be yet. I have several soldiers waiting on the same info so they can attend the ceremony as Craig trained and deployed with 2CER to theatre....

RIP Craig. It was a pleasure and an honour to have worked with you over the years....

If you join as an ED or EGS Tech, you'll be primarily conducting apprentice tasks, not doing any designing (at least not in the way you're thinking). You'll be starting out as a Pte and employed as such. The CF puts it's members where it needs them. The Career Manager would be the only one who...

You are absolutely correct. The CIED Sqn is force generated out of the CERs with slight augmentation from the ATs, Avn Techs, and Cl Divs, but is mostly manned by Engineers. In theatre, the Sqn belongs to the Task Force Engineer.

According to the CANFORGENs, as long as you don't qualify for both medals during the same 6 month period, you'll get issued and be able to wear both.  :2c:

That CNAFORGEN is posted 6 replies above yours....

The most basic of explanations of how it works for courses in the CF: 1) Pick trade; 2) Complete basic trades training; 3) Arrive at 1st unit; 4) Gain experience at unit and info Chain of Command as to what specialty courses offered to your trade you would like to complete; 5) Put in hours and...

Buds - it's Combat ENGINEER - not Combat Engi or Combat Engie. You won't last long in the 043 world calling yourself an Engi. Aside from that, scrolling through your previous posts, I've noticed you're not even in the CF yet. Tell you what, get yourself in, do a QL3 (or DP1) course, get some...

I should also mention that since Apr 2007, Canadian students on the HB have been introduced to US IEDD procedures, so I guess there is a bit of IEDD on EOD courses  >:D

Yes, and we still use HC to refer to the IEDD Operator course. The #2 course is referred to as just that - the #2 course  ;) Edit: I left the #2 course out of my explanation because the process of getting to be HC qualified wasn't the topic of conversation...

HB and HC are the former course codes used by the CF to denote EOD and IEDD courses respectively. Most still use those two terms to describe the courses, as it's much easier to say "HC" or "HB" than "IEDD Operator" or "EOD - Surface Only" :D CMD stands for Conventional Munitions Disposal.

IEDD is not just a Ammo Tech specialty. As a matter of fact, there are currently 4 CF trades that can attend the IEDD course, currently being run by CFSME in Gagetown, NB - Combat Engineer, Clearance Diver, Ammo Tech, and Aviation Technician. And when you look at which trades are the most active...

Oh I know all too well the amount of hours put in by some in the TF HQ, I was one of them, if even for just a few months. I think I managed to put longer hours in daily while in KAF than I did while in the FOBs, but it was also a matter of principle for me to be at my desk in the POC prior to...

I'm not sure what decompressing you refer to in FMG? I will agree that the soldiers not going back into the BG QRF rotation at the end of an Op may have had a bit of time for maintenance and refit, but for the most part, there's no "decompression" in any of the FOBs. And for the record, the...

Here's the Canforgen being referred to. It's unclassified.

I only quoted the bit that concerns the boots on the ground - not the bit about 90 days for the outside theatre support guys. To me, the last sentence seems to sum it up pretty air-tight. ISAF = GCS (I realize they didn't update the ISAF bar part), OEF / Non-ISAF = SWASM. As far as I...