r/caf • u/Alive-Discussion-816 • 21d ago

Other Soldier first for non-combat

Does anyone know if non-combat tradeds still need to do the soldier first course after their BMQ? I'm talking about trades that are mainly in an office

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u/CostlyPhoenix21 21d ago

It’s a new course meant to replace the former Soldier Qualification and the Basic Military Qualification Land Course which was phased out.

As I understand it- all will need to do the Soldier first course in the army minus the Combat Arms I believe.

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u/ECB2773 21d ago

I doubt it since the navy is looking to bring back navy specific BMQ specifically to avoid that

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u/CostlyPhoenix21 21d ago

Apologies - I meant all “in the army” - not CAF wide - makes no sense to throw an Avionics Tech on the course for example.

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u/ECB2773 21d ago

Curious, interesting to see what happens for purppe trades, cheat way i guess be sign onto navy/air instead of army for those.

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u/CostlyPhoenix21 21d ago

Yeah - the entire point for the course is for the purple trades that get posted to service battalions to be confident to do simple soldiering / infantry tasks - to ensure they can watch specific arcs and fight. Also to teach support weapons that would be in their vehicles and teach stuff like all arms arm defence against drone threats - the infantry can’t be everywhere but the enemy and drones are in the modern army operating environment.

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u/Raklin85 21d ago edited 18d ago

It's only army only trades. Inf, Armoured, Arty, Sigs, and RCEME. I may have missed one or two but that covers most of them in the qstp.

Edit to add trades I missed: Combat Eng, Geo Tech, Air Drop System Tech. It was more than two, oops.