So I get a new boss today. It's funny how my career went, when I look at how many bosses I worked for. Luc Guillette is my third Commanding Officer in two years at CFSAS. What's more interesting is I counted how many Commanding Officers or equivalent in HQs I worked for since I joined the Army reserve in 1987. Are you ready for this? 23 years in the CF and 23 Commanding Officers.
6R22R - Caya
CFOCS - ?
3 CFFTS - Ken Carr
2 CFFTS - ?
2 CFFTS - ?
434 Sqn - Mike Murphy
434 Sqn - B.C. Campbell
430 ETAH - Jacques Michaud
430 ETAH - Michel Legault
430 ETAH - Jacques ti-loup Lessard
430 ETAH - Serge Lavallée
430 ETAH Bosnie - Pierre Le-Pete St-Cyr (I should count Bernie Faguy as well)
430 ETAH - Guy Hamel
430 ETAH - Jean-Luc Milot (I should also count Chris Drouin)
1 CAD - Derek Joyce
1 CAD - Von Cosman
CFRG - Kevin Cotten
CFRG - Cmdr MacIssac
CFRG - Tony Appel
CFRG - Col Overton
CFSAS - Marc Ferron
CFSAS - Theo Heuthorst
CFSAS - Luc Guillette.
No wonder I never got what I asked for after my first tour in Shearwater with 434 Sqn. There is not continuity in my Chain of Command. I asked to stay on Challengers with 434 but was told no so I went back to what I knew from my Army days and 430 was my new home. 7 years and 7 COs later, I was supposed to got to Ottawa in the Flight Safety directorate for my first ground tour. Wrong! Winnipeg and the Glass Palace of 1 CAD. Then I asked to stay and go to the Survival school as CO . I got the Recruiting Centre as CO. I worked on getting back to flying in the Herc (435 Sqn) or the Dash-8 (402 Sqn), I got CFSAS with a plan to fly in 2010 but again I was wrong. Now there is a plan to get me to a flying position at 402 Sqn in 2011 but with my track record, I'll probably end-up back at the div or taking care of the Cadets.
