There were more than twice as many MSE's as there were CSE's at the July NOAB - don't know about the October one. But since my group had all of 5 CSE's, well that leads me to believe there'll be lots of room to switch to CSE in the coming while!
Take this with a grain of salt, I'm just repeating what we were told during the July NOAB.
Apparently all the training for MSE's and CSE's are common up until you finish the Naval Engineering Indoctrination course. Transfers before that point are easy and I was told that it happened quite...
For more information, here's a thread with a really good summary of NOAB: http://forums.navy.ca/forums/threads/52231.0.html
Megsy's post (reply #3) is from the most recent NOAB, which I attended. I made a few additions from an Engineer's point of view in reply #6.
I'll try to answer your more...
Great post, megsy! I definitely remember you from NOAB. I'll add a bit to what you said, since the week differed slightly between the MARS candidates and MSE/CSE's (ie: me):
The engineer watches were rounded up and taken over to FMF (Fleet Maintenance Facility) where we had some CSE and MSE...
I'll be there - I'm one of the CSE's from the July NOAB.
If you create a facebook group or something, send me a link - I'll gladly join! While I already know most of the navy folks from the NOAB, I'd love to meet folks from the other branches.
After passing the NOAB, I have an update to my application process:
Recruiting Centre: London
Regular/Reserve: Regular
Officer/NCM: Officer
Trade Choice 1: Naval Combat Systems Engineer
Trade Choice 2: MARS Officer (Dropped during NOAB - I decided NCSE was definitely where I wanted to be)
Trade...
I'm going for NCSEng and MARS, and I think I definitely prefer NCSEng.
I just called up my recruiting centre here in London - they said that they had sent off my application but hadn't received the list from Borden yet.
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