CELE to do CAP this year?

[McG]

I disagree with the decision to make CAP required for CELE.  If a CELE wanted to fill in for a Signals Officer, they would have signed up as a Signals Officer.

Ignoring garrison and strategic HQ positions for now - of the operational positions for CELE(Air), what proportion are air crew?
I suspect the requirement to do BMOQ-L has less to do with "filling in for a Sig O" and more about being able to fight in the environment that one is most likely to find themselves when the fight is going not-as-expected.  It is not the first "hard" RCAF occupation to be required to complete BMOQ-L.

 

[PuckChaser]

Umm?  Could it be that Radio Waves in the Army are not like those in the Airforce or Navy?  Perhaps they skip differently?  >

They skip slower and if they have to travel at night they require hotels before starting to propagate again in the morning in the RCAF.

 

[aesop081]

what proportion are air crew?

None.

more about being able to fight in the environment that one is most likely to find themselves when the fight is going not-as-expected.  I

The RCAF already provides specific training for it's "at risk" members, for times where the fight goes "not as expected". BMOQ-L certainly does not fill that requirement.

 

[McG]

The RCAF already provides specific training for it's "at risk" members, for times where the fight goes "not as expected". BMOQ-L certainly does not fill that requirement.

Are you certain that your opinion is the RCAF perspective.  There are now a number of RCAF officer occupations that support & fight for the RCAF entirely from the ground and which attend BMOQ-L to properly receive the first building-block for training for the ground fight.  It certainly looks like the RCAF believes BMOQ-L fills that requirement.

 

[aesop081]

There are now a number of RCAF officer occupations that support & fight for the RCAF entirely from the ground and which attend BMOQ-L to properly receive the first building-block for training for the ground fight. 

BMOQ-L certainly fills the requirement those individuals require, but that is not what you suggested. Those individuals being on the ground is not because the fight did not go as expected ( as you commented).

That being said, your comments mentioned "aircrew" WRT CELE-Air, of which there are none. For aircrews, should  the fight  "not go well / as planned" ( as per your comment), the RCAF provides training for very specific skill-sets that BMOQ-L does not.

 

[McG]

BMOQ-L certainly fills the requirement those individuals require, but that is not what you suggested. Those individuals being on the ground is not because the fight did not go as expected ( as you commented).

That being said, your comments mentioned "aircrew" WRT CELE-Air, of which there are none. For aircrews, should  the fight  "not go well / as planned" ( as per your comment), the RCAF provides training for very specific skill-sets that BMOQ-L does not.

You are reading messages that are not there.  I would never suggest air crew should attend BMOQ-L to prepare them should the plane go down - the RCAF does have better training for that.  They don't fight in the air, they fight on the ground (the land).

My question about air crew was rhetorical, and illustrative of why BMOQ-L is appropriate for CELE(Air).  While the job is described as comfortably supporting RCAF operations from stations and air bases, those individuals need to be ready to fight the ground fight when insurgents breach the wire of the APOD or when the red hordes over-run the FLOT.

 

[aesop081]

Ack.

I wager that the decision to put CELE-Air folks on BMOQ-L is tied to the Air Expeditionary Wing being created.