How is my posting likely to work?

[IntlBr]

Good Day,

I'll keep things short, and if someone wants to respond via PM instead of these means, feel free.

I'm currently training via the ROTP, and have completed BMOQ.  I graduate this year, and my COS date is 3 May, 2010 which is when I will be posted to my new unit (not sure of the location yet, although my preferences are in).  My occupation is INT O, and I have been told that I will be sent on "contact training" while I await courses, although my Subsidized Education Manager wasn't certain what that meant.  Other info I received said it will be arranged via the INT branch office and "might be" similar to OJT - O.K.

That was background for the fol:

COS is 3 May, 2010, and a tentative CAP/BMOQ-L date of 25 May, 2010.  Anyone familiar with whats been happening with Int Os lately?  I know there is a big waiting list for BIOC.  Is it similar to AF occupations in that I will be posted to my unit, sent on CAP, and then return to my unit while I await BIOC, or should I be planning a move to PRETEC O Coy in Borden?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Corps of Guides

 

[exgunnertdo]

I can't comment on what will happen to you as an Int O, but I can give some clarification on the terms.

OJT - On-job training - is an instructional strategy for granting all or part of a qualification.  Face-to-face and DL are other examples of instructional strategies.  A training plan can state that the qual will be granted by OJT and there will be a checklist of how the candidate is to acheive the POs. 

Most people in the CF use the term OJT incorrectly.  If you are killing time before a course, gaining experience and exposure, it's not OJT. 

So the terms "contact training" or "OJE - On-job experience" are used to distinguish the difference. 

So, your SEM is partly right - it will be like what most people think of as OJT, but it's not OJT.  I don't know how CFSTG and PRETC are managing things lately, though.

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Good Day,

I'll keep things short, and if someone wants to respond via PM instead of these means, feel free.

I'm currently training via the ROTP, and have completed BMOQ.  I graduate this year, and my COS date is 3 May, 2010 which is when I will be posted to my new unit (not sure of the location yet, although my preferences are in).  My occupation is INT O, and I have been told that I will be sent on "contact training" while I await courses, although my Subsidized Education Manager wasn't certain what that meant.  Other info I received said it will be arranged via the INT branch office and "might be" similar to OJT - O.K.

That was background for the fol:

COS is 3 May, 2010, and a tentative CAP/BMOQ-L date of 25 May, 2010.  Anyone familiar with whats been happening with Int Os lately?  I know there is a big waiting list for BIOC.  Is it similar to AF occupations in that I will be posted to my unit, sent on CAP, and then return to my unit while I await BIOC, or should I be planning a move to PRETEC O Coy in Borden?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Corps of Guides

Unless they've changed course schedules the BIOC usually starts in the fall . So its possible you be on the fall course. However, as you say if there is a backlog, then you could end-up doing OJT at some int section somewhere.

 

[IntlBr]

Ack all, and thanks all.

I'm more trying to determine what has been the recent posting pattern for IntOs. 

Is it off to PRETEC O Coy at CFB Borden, or will it be the route which makes sense due to fewer moves (e.g. sending me to OJT/OJE at my first unit)?  Time will tell, although experience cautions me to expect the route which makes not-so-much sense.

 

[Nfld Sapper]

Unless they've changed course schedules the BIOC usually starts in the fall . So its possible you be on the fall course. However, as you say if there is a backlog, then you could end-up doing OJT at some int section somewhere.

The DL part of Basic Intelligence Officer PT 1 was completed on 11 Dec, and Basic Intelligence Officer  PT 2 is scheduled to start 05 Jan 2010 (according to the Army National Calendar)