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You'll have more chance by contacting your local Cadet Detachment.  Previous cadet service might get an accelerated promotion to 2Lt depending on the Region -  I'm in Eastern and see only a few cases of transfers from Reg or Res NCM to CIC, a lot of them being senior NCM's.  The promotion system...

http://www.forces.gc.ca/admfincs/subjects/cfao/049-06_e.asp RANK ON ENROLMENT 5.      An applicant who meets the basic enrolment standards shall be enrolled in the rank of officer cadet and may be promoted, effective the date of enrolment, to a commissioned rank for which the applicant is...

Yep.   Everybody was wearing the same midnight blue mess kit.   It's still the Air Force mess kit but without the collar badges.

Absolutely.  The new training courses will have some elemental training and some courses will only be available to some elements but the system will be basically the same for everyone (much as it is right now)

You might want to re-check your notes from that meeting.    ;) http://www.cadets.ca/armcad/ranks-grades/4_e.asp That would be the same kind of minimum standards before receiving a promotion that exist for Sea and Air Cadets. Yes, promotion up to and including Cpl are just based on star level...

Of course, you know you'll have to learn to speak french ?

But you can understand how to work in a hierachical environment, teamwork, delegation.  You'll do things that you didn't think you could do before (flying a plane, surviving in the bush, commanding a parade) and that's a great confidence booster for ANY carreer.  No matter what you do with...

I used to drive an hour and a half to get to St-Jean to exchange kit.   The QM in St-Jean was oppened something like 2 days a week (for 5 hours) for the "general public", the rest of the time they kitted recruits or you had to make an appointement. Ordering stuff online is a great improvment...

Will the memorial also honour those who joined the National Guard to avoid being sent overseas ?

And that's a bad thing ?

The uniform and the commission are the tangible symbols of the interest that the CF has in the cadet program.   Period.   That's why we defend it â “ because we think the Cadet program is an asset to the CF and that members of the CF should be involved in it.   Nothing more, nothing else...

Turkey was once on the front line of the Cold War, it's now the forward base in the War against Terror, hence the large amount of transfer of US equipment and technology (how many countries got FREE Perry class frigates and M-1 tanks ?) How many of those deals are being reconsidered because of...

You can find sword drill in the APD 201.   Who is allowed to carry one is coverd in the dress CATO's of Army, Sea and Air Cadets (it's easy for Air Cadets : no one !)

There's a really good book about the Hitler Youth by H.W. Koch that I read a few years ago.   If my memory is correct, membership in the HJ became compulsory in 1936 but enforcement of that rule became more and more difficult as the war advanced.   Attendance varied a lot because many youth...

Actually, Napoleon had a formal training has an Artillery Officer at the École militaire royale de Paris.    He started his military career has a second lieutenant.

I asked the question to Mark Wheeler of Canadian Peacekeeper a year or so ago : Mil Spex products are manufactured in Asia (probably China).

I was talking about Eastern Region. Central Region might have a different policy. I‘ve also heard the "John DeChastelain was a CIC rumor" (actually that he transferred to the CIC to serve past the age of 60 since we retire at 65). Anyone can confirm tha rumor ?

Just to add to the job list, you can also work at the Directorate of Cadets at NDHQ or teach to other CIC officers in your Region Cadet Instructor School. But your primary function is your work at your local cadet unit, nothing else. Thats what you‘re trained for adn that‘s what you should...

From CATO 46-01 :

Ensign was first an Army rank (it was called Cornet in the cavalry). The Ensign was the junior officer who carried the unit colours and they took their name from the flag they carried. In french, we use Enseigne de vaisseau for Acting Sub-Lieutenant and Sub-Lieutenant.