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What are everyones thoughts on Cadets participating in Miltiary familiarization training with their affliated CF units? Remember that one of the main goals of the Cadet program is to foster interest in the Canadian Armed Forces.
From my perspective the majority of Army Cadets in my area are fortunate enough to have active affliate units who regularly take cadets and CIC officers with them on exercises and show them what they are doing and allow the cadets to participate to a certain degree in the training. I think this is a great idea, it's allmost completely free recruiting for the unit providing the training. The cadets get to go and learn about the army and their affilated unit and see what it's all about, and the army for the cost of some R&Q get to introduce potential recruits to the joys and adventure of being in the Army Reserve or Regular Army. The air cadets get to participate in Familiarization flights with their Affliated Squadrons. The sea cadets if they are lucky will get to spend some time aboard ship though in recent years with the CF's operational pace these ship deployments don't happen to often anymore though with the Naval Reserves operating the MCDV's during the summer we might see more ship deployments in the future (Crossing Fingers).
From a training and Cadet Retention stand point I would love to see some of my cadets get the opportunity to go to sea on a CF ship for even a couple of days, just so they can experience what it is like to be aboard ship. If they enjoy it enough there is a potential recruit right there. Does anyone object to this type of training? If so why?
From my perspective the majority of Army Cadets in my area are fortunate enough to have active affliate units who regularly take cadets and CIC officers with them on exercises and show them what they are doing and allow the cadets to participate to a certain degree in the training. I think this is a great idea, it's allmost completely free recruiting for the unit providing the training. The cadets get to go and learn about the army and their affilated unit and see what it's all about, and the army for the cost of some R&Q get to introduce potential recruits to the joys and adventure of being in the Army Reserve or Regular Army. The air cadets get to participate in Familiarization flights with their Affliated Squadrons. The sea cadets if they are lucky will get to spend some time aboard ship though in recent years with the CF's operational pace these ship deployments don't happen to often anymore though with the Naval Reserves operating the MCDV's during the summer we might see more ship deployments in the future (Crossing Fingers).
From a training and Cadet Retention stand point I would love to see some of my cadets get the opportunity to go to sea on a CF ship for even a couple of days, just so they can experience what it is like to be aboard ship. If they enjoy it enough there is a potential recruit right there. Does anyone object to this type of training? If so why?