- Reaction score
- 1
- Points
- 80
Transferring over:
- as mentioned, get the MPRR up to date
- most junior officers, up to the Lt(N) rank, keep their rank. What has to be done is based on experience - the more shipboard experience, the "less" has to be done on transfer. Getting OOD and BWK are requirements for a new class of ship, regardless of component. For example, someone who had never served in FFH, but is already OOD qualified, would have to re-qualify as OOD, but not the whole package rather a ship-famil and modified evaluation. BWK, there are other considerations in a FF or DD or AOR, that MCDV don't do (missiles, helo ops, etc). Remember, there is not "reserve BWK" and "reg force BWK", there are "MWS BWK" and "BWK", it just happens to be that these days reg force folks don't serve in Minor Warships, so they don't do MWS BWK. On that vein, MCDV are not "reserve ships", they are regular force units that are crewed in most part by naval reservists.
- achieving command: well, as 55 is the retirement age (don't get caught up in the 60 as retirement age, that is supposed to be temporary), everything is worked back from there. So, to make CDS, a person would be CMS first, flag rank of several postings (including potentially a fleet commander), working in NDHQ, CO of a ship, working in NDHQ, XO of ship, working in a HQ (Ottawa, Esquimalt, or Halifax), ORO of a ship, sea-duty, qualifications etc. etc. You can see that to add even just one or two years to each of these, they look to have someone in command by 40 (ish). The five or six postings needed to get the CMS level requirements add up to 12 years, and that would make someone 52 (post command at 40) and give them 3 years as CDS; that's how the timeline is developed. It's all based on reserving command for those persons who are considered likely to make it to the CMS then CDS levels.
- pension: it is possible to work full-time in the reserves and get a full pension. It is based on days of service, we frequently say 25 yrs, but it is 9000+ days (25x365) days of service. What that means in practical terms is that is doesn't have to be all in a row, and all in one component. Someone could have 4000 days as an army reservist, 1000 days as a naval reservist, and the remainder as reg force. That's how the class A calculation would come in - by the way, someone who does only class A or doesn't qualifiy for the full-time pension (50 out of 60 months, full-time), gets pensionalbe service, but the calculations are different.
- as mentioned, get the MPRR up to date
- most junior officers, up to the Lt(N) rank, keep their rank. What has to be done is based on experience - the more shipboard experience, the "less" has to be done on transfer. Getting OOD and BWK are requirements for a new class of ship, regardless of component. For example, someone who had never served in FFH, but is already OOD qualified, would have to re-qualify as OOD, but not the whole package rather a ship-famil and modified evaluation. BWK, there are other considerations in a FF or DD or AOR, that MCDV don't do (missiles, helo ops, etc). Remember, there is not "reserve BWK" and "reg force BWK", there are "MWS BWK" and "BWK", it just happens to be that these days reg force folks don't serve in Minor Warships, so they don't do MWS BWK. On that vein, MCDV are not "reserve ships", they are regular force units that are crewed in most part by naval reservists.
- achieving command: well, as 55 is the retirement age (don't get caught up in the 60 as retirement age, that is supposed to be temporary), everything is worked back from there. So, to make CDS, a person would be CMS first, flag rank of several postings (including potentially a fleet commander), working in NDHQ, CO of a ship, working in NDHQ, XO of ship, working in a HQ (Ottawa, Esquimalt, or Halifax), ORO of a ship, sea-duty, qualifications etc. etc. You can see that to add even just one or two years to each of these, they look to have someone in command by 40 (ish). The five or six postings needed to get the CMS level requirements add up to 12 years, and that would make someone 52 (post command at 40) and give them 3 years as CDS; that's how the timeline is developed. It's all based on reserving command for those persons who are considered likely to make it to the CMS then CDS levels.
- pension: it is possible to work full-time in the reserves and get a full pension. It is based on days of service, we frequently say 25 yrs, but it is 9000+ days (25x365) days of service. What that means in practical terms is that is doesn't have to be all in a row, and all in one component. Someone could have 4000 days as an army reservist, 1000 days as a naval reservist, and the remainder as reg force. That's how the class A calculation would come in - by the way, someone who does only class A or doesn't qualifiy for the full-time pension (50 out of 60 months, full-time), gets pensionalbe service, but the calculations are different.