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I am Captain Ann Kameoka
from Mississauga, Ontario.

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I'm a Communication
Electronics Engineering Officer

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currently posted to 3 Wing Bagotville.

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In a 3-D battlespace
full of weapon systems and data links,

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reliable communications
and secure digital and voice networks

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can mean the difference between
mission success and catastrophic failure.

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Communication Electronics Engineering, or
CELE Officers, are responsible for providing

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the communications capabilities
required for command and control

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for all military operations and exercises.

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CELE Officers work in a leadership role
to enable their highly skilled personnel

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to get the job done, both here at home
and on missions anywhere in the world.

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They use
their knowledge and resources to ensure

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reliable communications for mission success.

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CELE Officers are in charge of a team
of technicians that have a variety of fields

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that they're responsible for, from the
airfield systems that help the aircraft land

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or the computers
that everybody uses day-to-day,

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or secret systems
that the pilots use to plan their missions.

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The technicians are really the ones that
get the jobs done, that go do the installations,

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that troubleshoot,
all those kinds of things.

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CELE Officers
ensure that the right information

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gets to the right decision-maker
at the right time.

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They work with
leading-edge technology to find solutions

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that support worldwide operations,

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including satellite
and ground-based radio communications,

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air navigation and radar systems,
air defence and air traffic management,

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secure classified networking
and command and control systems,

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surveillance and intelligence gathering,

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and how they all integrate and function
in a military environment.

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There's always a new challenge
for CELE Officers to tackle

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and there are many different
growing areas of specialization,

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like cyber warfare and space operations.

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Regular Force or Reserve,
their role is crucial, because nothing happens

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without communications and connectivity.

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One of my favourite parts of my trade
is the fact that CELE Officers go everywhere.

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So I've had the opportunity to go to
different places, both in the United States

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and to other countries like Greenland, as well.

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It was one of those things
where you combine technology, teamwork,

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all these different things
that you would get in different settings,

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different locations, all those
kinds of things that makes it more dynamic

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than anything that I would find
normally in a regular, day-to-day job.

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After their initial occupation training is
complete, CELE Officers are usually assigned

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to an operational unit where
they take on a leadership role from Day 1.

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What happened for me is, I found it
a lot to take on because all of a sudden,

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you're responsible for all these people
and all these important systems.

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And you have never had experience
with those kinds of situations before.

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But as long as you understand
that your Warrants and your Sergeants

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are there for you, your senior NCOs,
they can kinda help guide you

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and mentor you along the way until you
get used to your roles and responsibilities.

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Typical postings
for junior CELE Officers include:

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troop or flight commander, junior project
manager, or life cycle material manager.

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As troop or flight commanders,
CELE Officers lead teams

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of up to 30 highly skilled technicians
responsible for providing

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the Royal Canadian Air Force
with communications capabilities,

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maintaining networks,
or defending against cyber threats.

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As junior project managers,
CELE Officers can expect to be involved

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in advising military leadership on the design
and acquisition of the next generation

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of computer, navigation,
radar, and communications systems,

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shaping the way the Royal Canadian
Air Force will fight in the future.

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And as life cycle material managers,
CELE Officers are charged

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with the in-service support
of critical operational systems,

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ensuring they are operating at peak efficiency.

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Some of the aspects I like about military life
in general is the fact that I get to travel

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to all these different locations while working,
and I've also got the opportunity

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to develop some of the skills
I had before joining, and also discover

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so many new skills throughout my career
and develop those as well.

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You can see
just how much you've changed as a person -

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that transformation of someone so unsure

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to someone that is able to do things,
that has confidence in themselves

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to take on any task that's given to them.