[Jon Skagfeld]

Originally posted by sapper740
Not so today. Corporal rank isn't just a function of time in, one also has to successfully pass their trade's training and achieve their "fives" (QL 5) Although I can only relate my personal experience as an Airfield Engineer, I didn't receive my second stripe until I had finished my fives. Luckily, I was able to squeeze through Chilliwack in the nick of time before they moved the Engineer's School to Gagetown. I know several Airfield Engineers who's promotion was held up by the delay in re-establishing the school. Once you've achieved Corporal rank, pay raises are automatic each year from Cpl 1 through Cpl 4 at which time you top out. The next jump in rank and pay is Master Corporal, but you can't permanently receive that promotion until you've completed the JLC (Junior Leadership Course). We had two "acting" MCpls in our unit who hadn't attended either a JLC or CLC (one was Army and part of our E.O.D. section), but they were the CO's pets.

OK, Derek...I stand corrected.

Aren't QL5s the same as the old TQ2s?






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