- IN HIS 25TH YEAR OF DISTINGUSIHED AND HOUNRABLE SERIVCE, MWO VINCENT (VINCE) TRAVERS WILL RETIRE FROM THE CAF ON 18 APRIL 2023.
2. VINCE’S CAF CAREER BEGAN IN 1998 WITH HASTING AND PRINCE EDWARD REGIMENT AS AN INFINTRY RIFLEMEN. AFTER NUMERIOUS RELAXING CAMPING TRIPS AND PERFECTING HIS HOLE DIGGING TECHNIQUE, VINCE’S TIME AS A RIFLEMEN CAME TO AN END IN 2001 WHEN HE TRANSFERRED TO THE RCAF AS AN ATIS TECH. UPON COMPLETION OF HIS QL3 TRAINING IN 2003, VINCE WAS POSTED TO 8 WTISS, WHERE HE WAS TRAINED AND EMPLOYED PRIMRARILY AS A MACS HF TECHNICIAN AND DEPLOYABLE X-RAY SYSTEMS MAINTAINER. IN 2009 CPL TRAVERS, WAS PROMOTED TO MCPL AND SUBSEQUENTLY POSTED TO CFSCE IN 2010. WHILE POSTED TO CFSCE, VINCE, WAS TASKED TO DEVELOP THE ACISS-IST TRAINING UNTIL SUCH TIME HIS CAREER SHIFTED TO HF RADIO SYSTEMS THROUGH A PROMOTION TO SGT IN 2013. UPON PROMOTION, SGT TRAVERS, LED THE NEWLY REFORMED HF TRAINING SECTION WITHIN CFSCE TO DEVELOP AND TEACH THE NEW HIGH FREQUENCY COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS MAINTAINER OSQ. THROUGHOUT HIS TIME AS THE IC OF THE HF TRAINING SECTION, VINCE OVERSAW AND TAUGHT NUMERIOUS COURSES INCLUDING HFCS, QRT, AND HF MANPACKS. EACH YEAR AT CFSCE HE ALSO WAS A KEY COMPONENT TO THE SUCCESSFULL EXECUTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXERCISE, NOBLE SKYWAVE. AFTER SEVEN QUICK YEARS AT CFSCE, SGT TRAVERS WAS PROMOTED TO WO AND POSTED TO HF / LF STRATEGIC RADIO SYSTEMS SECTION IN OTTAWA. CONTINUEING HIS CAREER IN HF RADIO SYSTEMS, VINCE WAS REQUIED TO PICKUP HIS TOOLS AGAIN AS THE LEAD SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR. OVER THE COURSE OF THE NEXT FOUR YEARS, WO TRAVERS TRAVELLED ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO MAINTAIN EXISITING AND INSTALL NEW STRATEGIC HF AND LF RADIO SYSTEMS TO SUPPORT JOINT ELEMENT OPERATIONS. IN 2021 WO TRAVERS, WAS PROMOTED TO MWO WHERE HE REMAINED IN OTTAWA AS THE LEAD SYSTEMS INTEGRATOR. THIS PROMOTION MARKED A CHANGE FOR VINCE AS HE WAS NOW REQUIRED TO SUIT-UP TO ATTENDED VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL NATO AND INDEPENDENT STRATEGIC WORKING GROUPS IOT FORWARD CANADA’S HF AND LF PROGRAM.
3. ADVANCING HIS EXTENSIVE, AND UNIQUE CAREER IN HF, IN APRIL 2023, VINCE WILL TRANSITION TO THE BANDWIDTH CONSTRAINED SERVICES PMO AS A DND PUBLIC SERVANT IN TRENTON, ON, WHERE HE AND HIS FAMILY WILL REMAIN IN THE GREATER NAPANEE AREA.
4. A DEPART WITH DIGNITY WILL BE HEAD AS AN INFORMAL SOCIAL GET TOGETHER AT A FUTURE DATE. ALL ARE WELCOME AND ANY CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES, FAREWELLS, QUESTIONS, ETC. MAY BE SENT TO [email protected].