Your Badges
Throughout the cadet program, you will be given various badges to put onto your black tunic that display your rank, courses you've taken, qualifications, and appointments. Here are all the different badges you can achieve as a sea cadet.
Your Rank
Black Tunic
Slip on (C4, or on Parka)
No tunic badge.
Ordinary Cadet
Able Cadet
Leading Cadet
Master Cadet
Petty Officer 2nd Class
Petty Officer 1st Class
Chief Petty Officer 2nd Class
Chief Petty Officer 1st Class
Participation badges
Your participation badges display what you have participated in. All these badges below are worn on your lower left sleeve above the cuff. Click here for where they go on your tunic.
Staff Cadet
International Exchange
Seamanship Deployment
Royal Canadian Navy Deployment
Coast Guard Deployment
Tallship Deployment
Appointment badges
Your appointment badges display what role you're fulfilling at the corps. All these badges below are worn on your lower left sleeve above the cuff. Click here for where they go on your tunic.
Cadet Summer
Training Centre
Coxswain
Drum Major
Training Chief
Pipe Major
Ship's Writer
Regulating Petty Officer
Stores Petty Officer
Qualification badges
Your qualification badges display what qualifications you have received. All the badges below are worn on your lower right sleeve above the cuff. Click here for where they go on your tunic.
Sail Qualification
CanSail
1
CanSail
2
CanSail
3
CanSail
4
CanSail
5
CanSail
6
CanSail
Instructor
*Note that only the highest level attained can be worn on the tunic.
Music Qualification
Basic
Level
Level
1
Level
2
Level
3
Level
4
Level
5
Buglers
Badge
Buglers Badge: Awarded to a cadet upon demonstrating, to the satisfaction of the CO, the ability to sound the fifteen “Sea Cadet Bugle Calls”
*Note that only the highest level attained can be worn on the tunic.
Marksmanship
Qualification
Marksman
First
Class
Expert
Distinguished
*Note that only the highest level attained can be worn on the tunic.
Fitness
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Excellence
*Note that only the highest level attained can be worn on the tunic.
Communicator
Level
1
Level
2
Level
3
*Note that only the highest level attained can be worn on the tunic.
Communicator Level 1. Awarded to a cadet after passing the examination for either the Semaphore or Flags and Pennant certificate or the Restricted Operator’s certificate (Maritime).
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Communicator Level 2. Awarded to a cadet after passing the examinations for any both of the Semaphore or Flags and Pennant certificate or the Restricted Operator’s certificate (Maritime).
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Communicator Level 3. Awarded to a cadet after passing the examinations for the Semaphore or Flags and Pennant certificate and the Restricted Operator’s certificate (Maritime).
Small Craft Operator Program
(SCOP)
Power Boat Operator
Safety Boat Operator
Sea boat Coxswain
First Aid
Basic First
Aid
Standard First Aid
If more than one first aid insignia is held, the standard level shall be worn.
Scuba
