Communications and Electronics Branch

Communications and Electronics Branch

The cap badge of the Communications and Electronics Branch.
Active 1968–present
Country Canada Canada
Type Combat support
Role Military communications
Size Personnel branch
Part of Canadian Forces
Motto(s) Latin: Velox, versutus, vigilans ("Swift, Skilled, Alert")
Website www.forces.gc.ca/en/caf-community-branches-comm-elec/index.page
Commanders
Colonel-in-chief The Princess Royal

The Communications and Electronics Branch (Branche des communications et de l'électronique) is a personnel branch of the Canadian Forces (CF). The army component of the branch is designated the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (Corps des transmissions royal du Canada[1]).

Wallace Bruce Carruthers

Major Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers (13 February 1863 – 21 October 1910) was the founder of the Canadian Signalling Corps, forerunner of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals and the Communications and Electronics Branch. In the 1968 unification of the Canadian Forces, functional similar components of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Air Force were combined into the new Communications and Electronics Branch.

During the Boer War, Carruthers noted the importance of tactical signaling in a successful campaign. Observing the employment of heliographs, semaphore flags and lamps, he realized there was a need for a unit to provide proper training in the use of these systems. Upon his return to Canada in 1902, he wrote a paper on signaling for the Royal Military College Club and championed an establishment of a signaling corp. In 1903, the formation of the Canadian Signal Corps was authorized by General Order 167. It was the first Signal Corp in the British Commonwealth and is the forerunner of the Royal Canadian Corp of Signals.

On 3 February 1903, now Major Carruthers was appointed as one of two Inspectors of Signaling. Setting up his headquarters in Kingston, Ontario, he was responsible to the Militia Council for the supervision of instruction and practice of signaling and the inspection of signalers and their equipment. In 1904, the first Provisional School of Signaling was established, with schools held in Kingston, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Montreal, Halifax, London, Quebec and Toronto over the next 2 years.

Training began in earnest in 1905 in summer militia instructional camps or in provisional schools set up in those eight cities. 546 Officers and men from the Rural Corps were trained in semaphore at the summer camps and 68 of those had qualified as signalers over the next few years.

A reorganization of the Corp in 1906 Carruthers made the Canadian Corp of Signal’s Commanding Officer. He received the title of Assistant Adjutant General for Signaling

In April 2013, the army component of the branch was officially designated with its historic title, the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, but it remains a part of the C&E Branch.[2]

Uniform

Customs and traditions

Flag of the Communications and Electronics Branch

Training

Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics

The Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics (CFSCE) in Kingston, Ontario was founded in 1937. Initially, CFSCE provided training in Communications and Electronics in Canadian Army and now in the Canadian Forces. CFSCE provides basic, intermediate and advanced training to military personnel in the field of Communications and Electronics.[4]

Occupations

Military occupations and military occupation codes (MOCs) within the Branch are listed below. Also listed are the uniform environment restrictions.

MOSID MOC Occupation Abbrev Uniform
Officers
00340 083 Communications and Electronics Engineering (Air) CELE (AIR) RCAF
00341 084 Signals SIGS CA
Non-commissioned members
00362-1 Army Communication & Information Systems Specialist ACISS CA
00362-2 Line System Technologist LST CA
00362-3 Communication System Technologist CST CA
00362-4 Information System Technologist IST CA
00362-5 Communication Information System Technology Manager CISTM CA
00109 226 Aerospace Telecommunication & Information Systems Technician ATIS TECH RCAF
00120 291 Communicator Research Operator COMM RSCH RCN, CA, RCAF
Non-commissioned members (Prior to 1 October 2011)
00015 052 Lineman LMN CA
00329 215 Signal Operator SIG OP CA
00109 226 Aerospace Telecommunication & Information Systems Technician ATIS TECH RCAF
00110 227 Land Communication and Information Systems Technician LCIS TECH CA
00120 291 Communicator Research Operator COMM RSCH RCN, CA, RCAF

[5]

Units

Regular Force units

Reserve Force units (up to 31 March 2012)

Reserve Force units (from 1 April 2012)

Listed by Canadian Army Area and parent Brigade Group

Order of precedence

Preceded by
Canadian Military Engineers		 Communications and Electronics Branch Succeeded by
Royal Canadian Infantry Corps

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Termium Plus: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals". The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank. Retrieved 14 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "Backgrounder – Restoring the historical designations of Canadian Army organizations". Department of National Defence. Retrieved 3 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "Communications and Electronics Branch". Canadian Heraldic Authority. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.rockymountainrangers.ca/?p=eductraining
  5. ↑ C & E Branch Occupations Archived March 23, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
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