Good Day,
I had a couple of questions for any CELE officers or anyone who could provide me with answers to my questions. I have read all the threads about them that I could find on here and they were informative but I had a couple of questions that weren't answered on the threads or the forces.ca website.
1. What would a CELE recruit at RMCC expect to do during the summers for OJT? Where would we go and what would we do?
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Communications and Electronic Engineering Officers attend the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics in Kingston, Ontario. Training lasts 19 weeks and covers the following topics:
The organization of the Communications and Electronics Branch
Communications Information Systems and airfield systems management
Advanced military communications and electronics theory
Communications Information Systems support planning for deployed operations
The deployment of Communications Information Systems equipment
Business management skills
The "Professional Training" I would expect to be after I finish my degree at RMCC or am I wrong?
2. I plan to take Computer Engineering is that a good choice for this trade?
3. I am interested in the security aspect of this trade, would I be able to enter within my area of interest?
4. I saw on the forces.ca website that they offer specialty courses, when would we do these? Is there a limit on how many of those we can do? If yes what is the limit?
SPECIALTY TRAINING
Communications and Electronic Engineering Officers may be offered the opportunity to develop specialized skills through formal courses and on-the-job training, including:
Air Operations Command and Control Information Systems course
Radio and satellite communications
Electronic Intelligence
Communications and network security
Cryptographic systems
5. What is typical career path I would go through? For example I would probably start out as a junior under a senior CELE officer in a Canadian air base. Could you provide me with a much more detailed pathway.
6. Would I be deployed with the army or navy? I know that the army had Signal officers but what about the navy? What kind of places can I be expected to b deployed to?
7. How fast/slow does a CELE officer climb through the ranks? How do their responsibilities change as they climb up the ranks?
8. Would I as a CELE officer be able to do the technical aspect of the job or would I simply supervise the NCM technicians do the work and direct them?
9. What is your typical Day as a CELE officer? I would like some details please.
10. If I leave the CF after however long I am there how valued will these skills be in the civilian IT industry?
I know these are a lot of questions and I would be very grateful if you could answer them for me.
Thank You
P.S. This post was merged with another thread but that thread was inactive for the last 5 months so I created a new post. If the mod's are going to delete one could you please delete that one.
Thank You very much :sorry: