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Announcements: Week of Jan 4, 2021

Thank you all who joined us for our virtual change of command and age out ceremony, the videos for those will be posted to our Facebook page and are on the squadron Youtube Channel.

This week we have a couple of announcements;

  • We would like to welcome back Lt Nasedkin to 577! Lt Nasedkin is a former cadet and staff with 577 and he is returning to us full time, and will be joining the training department.
  • We will be adding a prize program to our training nights, more details will be announced soon.
  • Next Wednesday Jan 13th, 2021 at 1845hrs there is an optional presentation being done for the Grande Prairie cadet community by Christian Stenner who is a Spelunker (Also known as Cave exploration) it is about an hour long presentation and everyone is welcome to attend. The presentation will be through WebEx and a join link will be posted closer to the date.
  • Seniors doing warrant boards they will be next Tuesday, if you haven’t been in contact with Lt Nasedkin about your boards yet please let us know.

We will see you all next week at our usual times. We appreciate your committed engagement through these times and hope to see you in-person soon.

Training Resumes

Good morning 577!!

We hope you had a great holiday break and new years. With the start of 2021 our virtual training begins again starting today and tomorrow evening at the usual times of 1830hrs on the discord server. There is a lot of things happening this week on our training nights including announcements and our Change of Command Ceremony from Capt Hartman to Capt Lynch.

We ask that everyone come and attend the ceremony and parents are more than welcome to join as well.

Also look out for a few teasers of things that are coming to the squadron in the near future! They won’t be obvious so keep vigilant!

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Announcements: 14/15 Dec 2020

The Cadet Activity Program is planned for Spring break in the next year. It will consist of 5 training days and be a condensed version of usual Summer Training. This is a new program and will also provide opportunities for staff cadets, keep an eye on this one!

The CCO will be rolling out a CyberTitan Team in the new year, with up to 50 Cadets participating across the northwest region. For anyone interested please check out https://www.cybertitan.ca/ and let Lt Meadus know to enroll you as soon as possible! There are training opportunities in regards to this over the holiday season.

GPTC/PPTC Exams are coming in early January, as of now there are only 3 cadets enrolled to write. If you are interested in writing the exam please contact Capt Lynch and he can get you registered. If you are NOT registered you cannot write the exam.

There will be an upcoming presentation by a Cave Explorer on 13 Jan, keep an eye out for the information in the new year.

Effective speaking will have a 5 week course starting in January, this is an excellent opportunity to learn skills for things such as job interviews, warrant and national selection boards, etc. Warrant officer Boards will take place on Jan 12th for those who are eligible, C1 Dress. If you have not completed your file review with Lt Nasedkin please reach out to him to complete it as soon as possible. 

Change of  Command Parade, Virtually will take place the 4th and 5th of January, as Capt Hartman releases command of the Squadron to Capt Lynch. Dress for this parade will be C1’s and all cadets should be in uniform for this virtual parade. CAF Dress 1A

Level 5’s who have not signed and completed their workshops please reach out to OCdt Trepanier.

This concludes our training for 2020. Have a happy holiday season and we’ll see you in 2021.

Announcements: Week of Nov 23/24, 2020

This week

Thanks again for everyone who joined us on the virtual platform for training this week, it was good to see all of you. If you haven’t joined the discord server yet please do so, links and how to videos can be found on older announcement posts or on the Virtual Training tab on this website.

  • This week
    • Mon Nov 30/Tues Dec 1, 2020
      • Regular virtual training
    • Ground school offered through discord server will be on Thursday, please check the server for information on that
    • Anyone interested in band clinics regardless of experience or prior band enrollment please talk to CIV Elliott through the discord server about that.
  • Parents
    • Cash calendar return dates have been extended to Jan 31st 2021