Army Communication & Information Systems Specialists (Sig Op, Lineman and LCIS Amalgamation)

[m6]

Show me a viable plan for training reserve LST.

We're talking 5 years of courses to get them trade qualified, much of it not in the summer and not easy for the college crowd.

ACISS is going to be effectively sig op-only for the reserves.

Yes, I understand that. This is simply what was passed on to me.

Edit: There can easily be IST/CST types on the Reserve side via PLAR of the DP1.1

 

[Brasidas]

Yes, I understand that. This is simply what was passed on to me.

Edit: There can easily be IST/CST types on the Reserve side via PLAR of the DP1.1

In theory. The system isn't going to expect to accommodate that, any more than it has been to accept CT's of ex-regforce LCIS. I'm in a reserve unit that has an LCIS as the SSM, and a tech attempting to CT to my unit was told up the chain that he wasn't allowed to do so without OT'ing to sig op.

Regardless of the letter of what's right, fringe situations are likely to get short shrift.

Suppose they do get a PLAR for DP1.1, and DP 1.1 only. They'll be invited to take DP 2.0 core. Do they then try to get another PLAR for DP 2.1?

 

[m6]

Trying to PLAR the 2.1 would probably be pointless. My understanding is that if you PLAR the 1.1 you can remain Core but participate in deployments in the sub-occ of the 1.1.

 

[alucky]

Hello! I have an interview coming up for this trade and while I have read up on it/watched the video, I was hoping to find someone who presently works in this field that I could get some feedback from - what your average day is like and how you feel about the job. This trade is entirely different from any career experience that I have previously had.

Any experiences you could share with me would be greatly appreciated. I just want to be as knowledgeable and prepared as I can.

 

[PuckChaser]

Whole topic on the trade here: http://forums.army.ca/forums/threads/77029/post-1128109.html#new. I'm sure it will answer all your questions.

 

[m6]

I have scoured the forums looking for a relatively detailed description of the ACISS DP1.0 and it's content and haven't found anything of much use. I will be starting this course in May and would like a heads up, I have the basic ATCIS OP course already so I figure that should help, if only a little.

Thanks in advance.

 

[ringo598]

Well..as someone who graduated from that course about a week ago I can probably help...though with the point that the course is changing pretty rapidly and your mileage may vary as some friends of mine are on a course about a month behind and its different already.

-Typing (If you can do 30ish wpm you get exempt)
-Radio Theory
-Crypto and COMSEC
-Electrical Theory (Reallllly basic)
-The MS office suite (PP, Excel, Word, Outlook)
-Basic lines, CAT-5e/field line
-CI's & the 522
-You do some computer tacnet stuff (SAS/Blue on Blue/etc)..this one seems to be all over the place, some courses got in depth with this, others didn't
-Counter IED
-A few random classes here and there such as field antennas that they never come back on and you never get to actually do any hands on in (a shame really )
-A couple other radios and systems

Then you go to the field for a month or so, lots of tasty boxed lunches
-Putting the 40ft mast up and down a lot
-Setting up an LSVW comms det
-Setting up the Generator

(You seriously spend almost a month doing the above three)

Then a field EX...(not really an EX, its like a few days and most courses slept in their shacks at night)
You do some IST/CST/LST and some core, most of it introductory and not graded

Any other questions just ask.

 

[m6]

Thanks for the info, Ringo! Looks like I've done almost everything there previously. 

 

[ayo23]

I heard a while back that those in ACISS currently are unable to remuster because the trade's in the red and that it'd be easier to just VR and re-apply. Anyone know if that's changed?

 

[Eye In The Sky]

The only thing that can stop you from applying for a VOT is not meeting the requirements IAW CFA0 11-12 (48 months service, QL4 qual'd/QL3 qual'd if no QL4 qual in your MOC).  If you aren't QL3 qualified yet and haven't started the course, you can request a MOC Reassignment (CFA0 11-12 again), or the BTAGs call it a VOR.  If you are between 25% and 75% complete QL3, you can request a MOC Reassignment/VOR.  Doesn't mean you will GET it, but if you or anyone is really that unhappy, is it really in the CFs or mb'rs best interest to carry on in the trade??

Even if ACISS is a RED trade, 0.5% of the TES is allowed OT-out.  That is not my opinion either, that is published policy.

Forecast TES for 31 Mar 12 is 2,935.  That makes the OT-outcap 15. 

:2c:

 

[ayo23]

Thanks. Not sure how i missed that post.  :-[

 

[SigPig84]

Can anyone confirm the next selection date for ACISS, I'm currently
merit listed, and coming in as a skilled applicant as I only got out in 2011.

Thanks
Cpl Burns

 

[PuckChaser]

You're not in anymore, I wouldn't go around using your rank without Former or Ret'd (which has rules for its use) around it.

Its also the second time you've asked for selection board timings, and obviously no one here has them. So be patient.

 

[PMedMoe]

Its also the second time you've asked for selection board timings, and obviously no one here has them. So be patient.

Agreed.  No need to start a new thread.  Mods, might I suggest a merge?

 

[mmmjon]

April 27th.

 

[JBP]

So having finally had a bit of time with some of these new ACISS 'trained' personnel...

ACISS 1.0 FNG: "So, I signed up as an LCIS tech..." - 3/4 of the one's we got were 'suppose' to originally be LCIS...
Me: "What did they teach you in CFSCE/what are you qualified on?"
FNG: "I can setup a mast and generator pretty quick and I can run 3 radios..."
Me: "CJ#$(J#&(RSCFSCE@&$*@($ ..... So you don't know anything about computers, electronics or generally how to fix anything but you'd be great in a Rad det?".
FNG: "Well they said I'd learn most of that here at my unit and when I go do my 2.0 course back at CFSCE."
Me: "Do you have a notepad, a big one...?"

:-\

 

[REDinstaller]

Welcome to failure.....C & E style. 

 

[JSR OP]

Welcome to failure.....C & E style. 

Speaking of failure, has anyone completed their "Modernization" package on DNDlearn yet?  What a horrible experience that was.  I would have rather completed the TCCCS 103 CBT again than do that over.  It was full of typos, incoherent or incomplete sentences, overlapping text.

I completed the first module and no quiz, completed the second module and then was to do a quiz that turned out to be the course exam. I completed it then went to the 3ed module, and it was a repeat of part of the second module.

It was horrible!

 

[MikeL]

Yea it is pretty horrible,  I did it in February? As well as some other guys from my unit and most of us emailed Kingston regarding it, got a response saying they know about the problem and will correct it.. apparently that didn't happen if you recently did it and saw the same errors.

 

[PuckChaser]

Wow, I thought SigOps just weren't getting the modernization package yet, guess its just me. Time to send out an email, I've got time to kill in Kabul.