What We Ask of Parents

Any assistance parents can provide to the Support Committee, in support of your cadet is greatly appreciated. The following are a few expectations of parents or guardians:

• Attend Commanding Officer’s Parades (last Thursday of every month to support your cadet on parade;
• Help with fundraising activities and volunteer for activities, when needed;
• Help your child learn how to wash, iron, and take care of their cadet uniforms. Please do not do your child’s uniform for them, we want them to learn.
• Encourage your cadet to follow their “chain-of-command”. If they’re not sure where a badge should be sewn on their uniform or what time they need to be at the Armoury for a field training exercise (FTX), after checking the website, have them call their Flight Commander; and
• Keep an open communication with the squadron. If your cadet is having a hard time, or you have a concern, please send us an email, give us a call or visit the Admin Office in person. All of our staff are here and committed to offering a fun program to the youth in our community.

Costs

We are proud to be one of the few you organizations that does not charge a membership or registration fee.

The Department of National Defence (DND) covers most of our training requirements, uniforms, use of the Armoury, while the Sponsoring Committee (in association with the Air Cadet League of Canada) helps with the rest of the costs needed to provide an exceptional training program.

They are limited expenses a cadet will incur is her/her personal kit to maintain their dress standard (haircuts, shoe polish, hair gel, shoe polish, link brush, etc).

In order to help keep our expenses to the individual cadet as low as possible, parent and cadet participation in fundraising activities are essential and expected to allow the unit to offer our exception training program.