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The Cadet Instructors Cadre (French: Cadre des instructeurs de cadets) is a sub-component of the Canadian Forces (CF) Reserve. Members of the CIC are enrolled as Reserve officers to support the cadet program.

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[edit] Roles & Identification

[edit] Uniforms

The Cadet Instructors Cadre is a sub-component of the Canadian Forces Reserve and members are issued the same uniform as all members of the Canadian Forces Sea, Land, and Air elements, including field and working uniforms - Naval Combat Dress (NCD) for Sea, CADPAT-pattern combats for Army and Air.

[edit] Unit training

Most Canadian Forces officers of the CIC are employed as instructors with Royal Canadian Sea Cadets Corps, Royal Canadian Army Cadets Corps, or Royal Canadian Air Cadets Squadrons. Each local corps or squadron is led by a commanding officer and has officers in the roles of supply officer, administration officer, and training officer. In addition to these responsibilities, the officers also act as instructors for their cadet corps or squadron. They may also be joined by contracted civilian instructors or volunteers. The CIC officers are members of the Canadian Forces; the civilian instructors, volunteers, and the cadets are not. Cadet corps and squadrons are also supported by a local sponsor which works with the staff to provide the program for the cadets.

[edit] Specialist programs and summer training

In addition to unit training, the cadet programme operates a number of specialist programmes and summer training centres. These are also staffed mostly by Canadian Forces CIC officers. The specialist programmes include the Air Cadet Gliding Program, which operates a system of gliding schools and centres across Canada, and the sailing centres of the Sea Cadets.

[edit] CIC training programme

Some CIC officers are previously members of the Regular or Reserve Force, but many do not have previous military training and enroll directly into the Canadian Forces CIC sub-component. This is the case for some ex-cadets who continue and work with the cadet program immediately upon leaving the program before their 19th birthday. (Cadets are 12 years of age and may not have reached their 19th birthday)

Those without previous military service complete 10 days of basic officer training at regional cadet instructor schools (or Écoles régionale des instructeurs de cadets). A CIC officer will start at the rank of naval cadet or officer cadet and upon successfully completing basic training and after a year's service may be commissioned as a Canadian Forces Officer.

[edit] Mandatory CIC Officer Training

[edit] Basic Officer Qualification Course

(BOQ) also know as Cours de qualification élémentaire d'officier in French.

Designed to give new officers both an introduction to military life and the basic leadership and instructional tools required to train and supervise cadets. This is a 10-day course.

Course content includes:

  • Physical and recreation training
  • Drill
  • Leadership
  • Instructional technique
  • Military writing
  • Supply
  • Administrative procedures
  • Canadian Cadets organizations
  • Officer's duties and responsibilities
  • Canadian Forces orders, regulations, and procedures
  • Safety precautions for cadets
  • Cadet Harassment and Abuse Prevention program
  • General service knowledge
  • Leagues and their responsibilities
  • Environmental issues

Course prerequisites:

  • MOC R91A (Sea) or R92A (Land) or R93A (Air) (Actually, now the CIC branch is 00232)
  • Enrolled as an Officer Cadet/Naval Cadet in the Cadet Instructor Cadre
  • Candidate must have their working environmental uniform (army combat, naval combat, or air force base dress) issued as a minimum

The next course that a CIC officer must take is an environmental course, either the MOC course (8 days) or the JOLC course (17 days).

[edit] Military Occupational Course

(MOC) also know as Cours de développement professionnel in French.

This is an eight-day course, designed to provide officers with the basic knowledge and skills required at a cadet corps/squadron, with an emphasis on the organization, customs, and traditions unique to the each of the three elements of the Canadian Forces.

[edit] Military Occupation Course (Sea)

Course content includes:

  • Conduct
  • Leadership
  • Duties and responsibilities of the divisional officer
  • The Sea Cadet training programme
  • Organization of Royal Canadian Sea Cadets
  • Seamanship
  • Canadian Navy
  • Customs and traditions of the Navy
  • Familiarization of naval/maritime facilities
  • Chart work
  • Communications
  • Boat work
  • Sailing exercise
  • Marksmanship
  • Safety regulations
  • Officer duties and responsibilities

Course prerequisites:

  • Sea Element CIC Officer
  • Completed Basic Officer Qualification (BOQ) Course
  • Candidate must be a naval cadet or acting sub-lieutenant

Completion of the course qualifies candidate to perform the duties of a divisional officer in a sea cadet corps.

[edit] Military Occupation Course (Land)

Course content includes:

Course prerequisites:

Completion of the course qualifies candidate to perform the duties of a platoon officer in an army cadet corps.

[edit] Military Occupation Course (Air)

Course content includes:

  • Conduct
  • Physical Training
  • General Safety
  • Leadership
  • Map and compass
  • The Royal Canadian Air Cadet training programme
  • Organization of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets
  • The Canadian Air Force
  • Customs and traditions of the Air Force
  • Principles of flight
  • Propulsion — aero engines
  • Airframe system and design
  • Air navigation
  • Airmanship — regulations and procedures
  • Airport facilities.
  • Meteorology
  • Aircraft identification
  • Field exercise
  • Range safety
  • Safety regulations
  • Officer duties and responsibilities

Course prerequisites:

Completion of the course qualifies candidate to perform the duties of a flight commander in an air cadet squadron.

[edit] Junior Officer Leadership Course

Or JOLC also known as Cours d'art du commandement d'officier subalterne or CACOS

A 17-day course, designed to provide officers with the basic knowledge and skills required at a cadet corps/squadron, with an emphasis on the organization, customs, and traditions unique to each element of the Canadian Forces. These courses also provides instruction specific to the duties required of a divisional officer/platoon commander/flight commander at a cadet summer training centre.

[edit] Lieutenant Qualification Course

LTQ also known as the Cours de qualification de lieutenant in French or the CQLT.

A eight-day course, designed to focus on the importance of training within a cadet corps/squadron, with an emphasis on further developing skills and knowledge in leadership, counselling, planning, organisation and supervision of training.

Course content includes:

  • Physical and recreational training
  • Drill
  • Leadership
  • Supervision of instruction
  • Military writing
  • Alternate methods of instruction
  • Administrative procedures
  • Unit training plan
  • Safety precautions
  • Training officer responsibilities
  • Cadet tours and visits
  • Briefings
  • Cadet Harassment and Abuse Program
  • Social issues

Course prerequisites:

  • MOC R91A (Sea) or R92A (Land) or R93A (Air)
  • Completed the Military Occupation Course (MOC) or Junior Officer Leadership Course (JOLC)
  • Minimum one year after completion of the Basic Officer Qualification Course (BOQ)

Upon completion of this course, the officer will have acquired the necessary skills to assume the duties of training officer at a cadet corps/squadron. This qualifies the candidate to become an Army or Air Force lieutenant, or a Naval sub lieutenant.

[edit] Captain's Qualification Course

CQ also known as the cours de qualification de capitaine in French or as the CQC.

An eight-day course designed to broaden the candidate's knowledge, skills and confidence as a leader and to prepare the candidate to assume the responsibilities of commanding of a cadet corps/squadron.

Course content includes:

  • Ceremonial events
  • Logistics
  • Military writing
  • Personnel administration
  • Personnel development
  • Public relations
  • Assessment of personnel
  • Responsibilities of command
  • Conduct of meetings/briefings
  • Briefings and information on the leagues and their responsibilities
  • Conduct
  • Physical and recreational training
  • Leadership
  • Social issues

Course prerequisites:

  • MOC R91A (Sea) or R92A (Land) or R93A (Air)
  • Minimum one year after completing the Lieutenant Qualification Course (LTQ)
  • Must be a substantive lieutenant/sub-lieutenant
  • Upon completion of this course, the officer will have acquired the necessary skills to assume the duties of commanding officer in a cadet corps/squadron. The candidate will be qualified to become a naval lieutenant (N), or an army or air force captain.

[edit] Commanding Officer's Course

Known in French as the Cours de commandant

A four-day course, designed to give cadet corps/squadron commanding officers the opportunity to upgrade/update their knowledge, discuss common problems with a view to learning from each other and to function more effectively as a commanding officer.

Course content includes:

  • CIC officer development
  • Corps/squadron support
  • Social issues
  • Problem solving
  • Public relations and recruiting
  • Regional issues
  • Personnel selection and relationships with sponsoring committees
  • Environmental issues
  • Harassment policy

Course prerequisites:

  • MOC R91A Sea or R92A Land or R93A Air
  • Completed Basic Officer Qualification (BOQ)
  • Must be a commanding officer or commanding officer designate

[edit] Other CIC courses

There are other courses that CIC officers can take.

  • Cadet Unit Administration Officer (U Adm O)
  • Cadet Unit Supply Officer (U Sup O)
  • Unit Human Rights Adviser (UHRA)
  • CSTC General Safety Officer (CSTC GSO)
  • CSTC Environment Officer (CSTC Env O)
  • Glider Instructor Course (GIC)
  • Tow Aircraft Conversion Course (TACC)
  • Launch Control Officer (LCO)
  • Band Officer (Band O)
  • Range Safety Officer – Smallbore (RSO (SB))
  • Range Safety Officer — Air Rifle (RSO (AR))
  • Range Safety Officer — Large Bore (RSO (LB))
  • Tender Charge Vessel Operator (TCVO)
  • Winter Adventure Training Instructor (WATI)

(Course open to MOC R92A only)

  • Cadet Abseil Instructor (CAI)
  • Cadet Orienteering Instructor (COI)
  • Basic Canoe Instructor (BCI)
  • Canoe Trip Leader (CTL)
  • Moving Water Leader (MWL)

[edit] Roles and duties

CIC Duties - Subordinate Officers
Officer Cadet
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  • Assistant to department heads; platoon officer. Under training.


CIC Duties - Junior Officers
Second Lieutenant Lieutenant Captain
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  • Assistant to department heads, platoon officer; rarely, department head or Commanding Officer.
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  • Commanding Officer of small corps, Executive Officer, Training Officer, department head at the corps, staff and training positions at summer training centres.
 thumb|100px|Captain
  • Commanding Officer, Executive Officer, Training Officer. Staff and training positions at summer training Centres. CIC officers rarely hold a higher rank.
CIC Duties - Senior Officers
Major Lieutenant Colonel Colonel
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  • Commanding Officer of large corps, department head at summer training centres, national and regional staff positions.
 thumb|100px|Lieutenant Colonel
  • Commanding Officer of summer training centres, Regional Cadet Officers, national staff positions.
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  • Director of Cadets - not yet held by a CIC officer.

[edit] Authorized march

The Regional Cadet Support Unit (Eastern) (RCSU(E)) has proposed that "La Feuille d'érable" be the march past piece for CIC officers. This piece of music is a song, actually a traditional Catholic French-Canadian song that came out of the bonne chanson in the 1940s. Here is the original version of "La Feuille d'érable" by Albert Larrieu.

Certain jour le bon Créateur
Fit dire aux peuples de la terre:
"Que chacun choisisse une fleur,
Et qu'on m'envoie un émissaire
Qu'on soit exact au rendez-vous
Chacun prendra la fleur qu'il aime
Cette fleur restera l'emblème
Du grand amour que j'ai pour vous."
Le jour dit, dans le paradis
Les envoyés se rencontrèrent
La France vint choisir un lys
L'oeillet fut pris par l'Angleterre
L'Espagnol eut un frais liseron
L'Américain un dahlia rose
L'Italien choisit une rose
Et l'allemand un vieux chardon
Quand arriva le Canadien
Emmitouflé dans ses fourrures
Hélas! il ne restait plus rien
Que des feuillages, des ramures
Saint-Pierre était plein de regret
Il caressait sa barbe blanche
"Je n'ai plus, dit-il, que ces branches
Tu peux regagner ta foret."
Mais Jésus, qu'on ne voyait pas
Intervint d'un coeur secourable
S'en alla choisir dans le tas
Offrit une feuille d'érable
Et c'est depuis ce beau jour-la
Qu'un peu partout dans la campagne
Dans la plaine et sur la montagne
L'érable croit au Canada
Dans la plaine et sur la montagne
L'érable croit au Canada

The song is well known to members of the Eastern Region, however, very little in English Canada. It has however been translated into English:

On one fine day the good Creator
said to people of the earth
“let each of you go choose a flower
and then send an emissary.
Make sure that they are all on time.
Each take a flower that he loves.
And that flow'r for ever be a symbol
of the Love, the Love I have for you.”
On the appointed day in heaven
the envoys had all gathered there.
France chose the Lily and the
Carnation was chosen by the English.
The Spanish got a morning glory
the Americans pink dahlia.
The Italians chose a rose for their flow'r
and German, the Germans chose a thistle.
When the Canadian arrived
bundled up in his coat of fur,
alas, alas all that remained there
were just left some leaves and boughs.
St. Peter was full of regret
and as he stroked his long white beard,
“All I have left are these old branches
Go back to, back to your forest home.”
But Jesus, who had not been seen,
stepped forth with generosity.
The Lord, he dug into the pile
and offered up a maple leaf.
And ever since that glorious day
here, there in the countryside,
on the plains and high up in the mountain,
the maple grows, it grows in Canada.

[edit] Order of precedence

Preceded by:
Intelligence Branch		 Cadet Instructors Cadre Succeeded by:
Last in order of precedence of Personnel branches of the Canadian Forces

[edit] See also

[edit] External links


 
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