Parachutist wings from cadets on my PRes or RegF uniform

[Excolis]

i have and the only pre-req for the course is you r qualified LT which i will be..it says that bilingual is preferred

 

[MikeM]

I am pretty sure you need to have previous CTC experience.

 

[chriscalow]

mike did you do your cli in 01? B coy black down?

 

[MikeM]

No, ‘02, I was the top cadet, I received the ANAVET for it. My friend Mike Wierzba did it in ‘01, same with a guy named Galbraith who used to go to my corps.

 

[chrisp1j]

We actually had our fitness tests conducted by our CO in Fort York Armouries.

All 3 of the officers on our course this year were Captains. I know that one of them was fully bilingual, though im not sure about the others.

As far as I could tell, the CIC sends 1 officer with us on the actual course, each year. It seems as though they cycle through in this manner: 1st year, escort officer (cadet crap); 2nd year your an escort officer and you do the course with the cadets; 3rd year, your the OC of the Cadet Para Course (with your wings). Im thinking that that is how its supposed to be, but I believe that this year, the 2 junior Capts. were first years on the cadet jump course. I guess that the idea is: always have at least 1 CIC officer on the course who has done it before.

 

[MikeM]

You‘re almost correct on that one

My platoon commander in banff this summer was the OC of para last year, and the way it works is that for your first year you‘re the Escort officer, and do the course, then second year the admin officer, and third year the OC.

So yeah you are right, it is a cycle they go through.

 

[chrisp1j]

Sure, that could make sense ( It must have gotten screwed up this year as it was our adminO‘s first year on the course too).

 

[Matt0304]

You are supposed to have 2 jump qualified officers on staff, and one do the course; the only reason it was different this year is because the 2ic that was jump qualified bailed out so we ended up with a 2ic of the company that was not jump qualified. Also, our OC did the course last year, not two years ago.

 

[Excolis]

matt Capt. Prince was you OC corect. the orders are that there are three officers to be on course. the Admin O takes the course with the cadets, and the OC and DCO are both airborne qualified already.

 

[Matt0304]

That‘s what I said, sir. All i stated was that this year it was not that way for certain reasons. Captain Prince was our OC, indeed.

 

[chriscalow]

Im not sure about the official pre-requisites for CIC, but my officers were Capt. Perry as the Officer commanding... we had Capt. Cree as our DCO/TRG O and our ESCORT officer was capt Prince.

BTW.. Mike, your buddy Wierzba is in my militia unit and he just got nominated for bpara. Good guy.

 

[Excolis]

thanks guys.. hopefully i will have my wings soon... and i can help cadets get thiers..

 

[Matt0304]

Sir, getting on the course is one thing...getting your Wings is another...

 

[Marti]

qy rang cdt: who was the CSM that year?

 

[chriscalow]

My CSM was cdt MWO Cheung from the Foot Guards in Ottawa

 

[Excolis]

matt, i know, and i m up for it. what was your pass rate last year?....and your name do you mean it to say 0203?

 

[Matt0304]

17 out of 49 failed....65% pass rate.

And Sir, no...why would i want to pretend to be on a different course serial from last year? My course serial is 0304 and with all due respect I know 0304 from 0203.

Cheers

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[Matt0304]

To clarify in case someone is curious and does not know how the BPara course serials work...first two numbers (03) is the year.. last two are the course number that was run that year (04).

So... 0304 = 4th course run in the year 2003.

 

[Matt0304]

They say 17 and not over 18...but I did it when i was 16 (you are allowed as of 2002 to be 16) and there were enough 18 year olds to scrap that rule too. Basically...you must be 16 before the start of the course and not turn 19 before it finishes.

 

[Marti]

Thanks qy rang cdt, I think I remember him saying he wasn‘t sure if he‘d come back to be CSM.