Talk:Royal Canadian Army Cadets

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[edit] Ranks and Insignia

I did not know that the army cadets used the same rank insignia as the regular forces. I thought the ranks were red. Also, I did not know that cadets had the rank of master corporal.

Also, when I was in the cadets during the late 70's, some units also use red shoulder bars for officer ranks.

Cheers from a former cadet and militiamen. WIKIPEDIAVI 06:36, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

  • Officer ranks were still in use until the late 80's early 90's. The article currently says 60's.Rwgill (talk) 00:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


The rank insignia changed dramatically in the 1990s - officer ranks deleted, MCpl added, LCpl removed.

I've removed the funding info on the main page - Cadet spending is not "defence spending", the two are apples and oranges.Michael Dorosh 19:28, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Text removed from article

A bit too much POV, but I've preserved the original version here.
"Although $160 million may seem like an ungodly sum to be spent on a youth program benefiting relatively few people, it is done so because the Cadet program is possibly the most important recruiting element for the Canadian Armed Forces.

Joining the Canadian Forces after completing Cadets is not mandatory, though some cadets choose to join anyway." ... ColtsScore 02:19, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

Wow, the Canadian government has spent 160m on anything in our military? They sure hide it well... 70.70.97.117 03:46, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Forms of address

Someone want to buff that section up, preferably someone with Army experience? Also, any other non-standard rank titles (ie Signaller)? Finally, who uses Lance Corporal? Quadra 00:41, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

What's currently in is how it's been done at my own corps and at every summer camp I've been to. As for Lance Corporal, the only corps I could find that even mentions it is the site page for Halifax Rifles and even they mention the cadets being promoted to Trouper (sic) with Lance Corporal in brackets. I'll e-mail them. mad_cat_42 07:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
Lance Corporal is no longer used in the Canadian Army. There is a disagreement between the QR&O and the CATO. The QR&O says LCpl and the CATO says Pte (along with everything else). There is the odd unit which still appears to use the term, though IAW regimental tradition and cutoms, is inaccurate.Rwgill (talk) 17:42, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

IMHO, I would remove ALL of the various forms of address. Though they may be accurate, depending on affiliation, they are not required. The manuals, orders and regulations make it clear that the ranks are: Cdt, Pte, Cpl, MCpl, Sgt, WO, MWO and CWO. If you disagree, checkout the resources sections at cadets.ca .

As they are accurate, why would you remove them? Would seem that presenting accurate information about the RCAC is the point of this page, and unit-specific rank titles are part of the RCAC. Keep 'em. Quadra 19:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Adds confusion and is only correct if permitted by an affiliated unit. The use of affiliated unit traditions and accoutrements is only approved by the CO of an affiliated unit, not the RCAC. These are also the only ranks, as detailed at cadets.ca. Honestly, it looks cluttered and makes it hard to read.Rwgill 23:15, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Warrant Officers

The part on MWO appointments are a bit unclear... "there must be a vacancy on the corps MWO establishment - one per squadron"

Does this mean that there's only one MWO per corps? Just curious as my corps has 3.

Cheers, Shubu fubu 04:14, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

Editing error! Fixed. Quadra 17:26, 4 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Standard formatting for cadet pages, CIC, etc...

Will be tossing up reformatted (no real content changes, just organization, appearance) pages for all three cadet elements, as well as the CIC and any sub-pages (i.e. Cadets Canada) off of my user page, for consideration. If anyone has any suggestions, feel free to pass 'em along! I'll post the links once I'm done. Quadra 17:01, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recent edit - Boy's Naval Brigade

Just to double-check, from the name, it would appear that the original Sea Cadet units were in some way associated with the Boy's Brigades... or was the Navy League just ripping off the early Army Cadet program's name? Quadra 04:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Two questions

First of all, I don't think the text at the bottom of each image saying the rank's name is needed there, and I think it should be cropped out. Also, aren't master corporals called "maitre-caporal" or something like that in French? --Jordan Elder talk 18:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Lifted the French version of master corporal from the regulations... as for the cropping, sounds like a great idea - if you like, the Royal Canadian Air Cadets article needs the same treatment; just be sure to add the requisite information (French and English) to the pic's own page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Quadra (talk • contribs) 19:20, 7 March 2007 (UTC).
As for master corporal in French, it is caporal-chef. I tried the cropping on the private rank image, but for some reason, I got a squashed image, but I'll try again. Jordan Elder talk 02:42, 2 April 2007 (UTC)