Ex Black Watch Cadets from the 60 and 70's
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bwatch said:
My grandpa was black watch during that time...by cadets, do you mean Ocdt's?
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bwatch said:
I think geo knows the difference.
His answer was to this question.
popnfresh said:
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O gosh, I had missread.
A Cadet is between the age of 12 to about 18. For most, it is the first step in a career with the Canadian Forces. Most move into the Reserves and some into the Reguler Force. When you apply for any of the two, your training as a Cadet will make things easier then someone with non at all. Now to get to where I missread. Ocdt stands for Officer Cadet, this is an Officer in a Cadet Corp.
I hope this helps this time. I recently had open heart surgery and sometimes don't think straight
A Cadet is between the age of 12 to about 18. For most, it is the first step in a career with the Canadian Forces. Most move into the Reserves and some into the Reguler Force. When you apply for any of the two, your training as a Cadet will make things easier then someone with non at all. Now to get to where I missread. Ocdt stands for Officer Cadet, this is an Officer in a Cadet Corp.
I hope this helps this time. I recently had open heart surgery and sometimes don't think straight
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bwatch said:
Not entirely true, it is also used to denote an Officer in the CF who has yet to be Commissioned.
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bwatch said:
No. An Officer Cadet is a member of the reg force who is not yet qualified (not yet completed BMOQ and/or University degree.) I believe an Officer in a Cadet Corp is a CIC (Cadet Instructors Cadre) officer.
Edit: Sapper, I don't think it applies to both. There are by definition no officers in Cadets, only CIC IIRC.
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I guess all one of us can do is call up a unit and get an answer right from the horses mouth as we all seem to have a different version.
I was in the Cadets way back in the 1960's. In those days, an Officer Cadet was just that, an Officer in a Cadet Corp and no such a thing as CIC but we did have Cadet Leader Instructers "CLI". To be a CLI you would have to have a very good attendance record and would have had to have gone to a 6 week camp already then to CLI camp. CLI was the first step one took back then to move up in rank from Pvt to Cpl and on up. A Cadet could move on up in rank to RSM, Lft and Capt'n and CO of the Cadet Corp
Officer Cadet is a rank held by military or Army cadets during their training to become commissioned officers. The term Officer Trainee is used interchangeably in some countries. Some countries refer to naval officer cadets as midshipmen, although in other countries this means something slightly different.
When we went to Camp, the Officers came to us from the Regs mostly and they where part of the Cadet Services of Canada.
Many things have changed since my days of being in. NCO was a Non Commissioned Officer
I was in the Cadets way back in the 1960's. In those days, an Officer Cadet was just that, an Officer in a Cadet Corp and no such a thing as CIC but we did have Cadet Leader Instructers "CLI". To be a CLI you would have to have a very good attendance record and would have had to have gone to a 6 week camp already then to CLI camp. CLI was the first step one took back then to move up in rank from Pvt to Cpl and on up. A Cadet could move on up in rank to RSM, Lft and Capt'n and CO of the Cadet Corp
Officer Cadet is a rank held by military or Army cadets during their training to become commissioned officers. The term Officer Trainee is used interchangeably in some countries. Some countries refer to naval officer cadets as midshipmen, although in other countries this means something slightly different.
When we went to Camp, the Officers came to us from the Regs mostly and they where part of the Cadet Services of Canada.
Many things have changed since my days of being in. NCO was a Non Commissioned Officer
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