Okanagan College\u2019s Aircraft Maintenance Engineering is helping bolster Canada\u2019s military and defence. <\/p>\n
Twenty-two members of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) joined the college program in October. An agreement was signed by the two organizations to have RCAF members train at the Kelowna and Vernon airports. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis collaboration between the Royal Canadian Air Force and Okanagan College demonstrates how Canada\u2019s government is protecting Canadians by forging new partnerships to strengthen our sovereignty and national security,\u201d said Stephen Fuhr, Member of Parliament for Kelowna and Secretary of State for Defence Procurement.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis partnership is about diversifying training opportunities for new aircraft technicians at a time of growth for the RCAF,\u201d said Brigadier-General Dan Coutts, Commander of 2 Canadian Air Division which is responsible for RCAF training. \u201cThis initiative is representative of the Defence Industrial Strategy, partnering with industry and academia to train technicians that will maintain the sophisticated aircraft of Canada\u2019s Air Force today and into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
RCAF members will live in the college\u2019s campus housing in Vernon during training. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to be able to work in partnership with the Royal Canadian Air Force, helping to support their workforce demands and the efforts of the Canadian military, alongside our civilian cohorts of students,\u201d said Caitlin Hartigan, Dean of Trades and Apprenticeship at Okanagan College. \u201cThere is significant demand for Aircraft Maintenance Engineers, and our program is focused on being agile and responsive in order to continue to produce skilled workers for the region and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
The course is open to all students at Okanagan College with two aircraft maintenance programs, structures and mechanical. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Okanagan College\u2019s Aircraft Maintenance Engineering is helping bolster Canada\u2019s military and defence. Twenty-two members of the Royal Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-952580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=952580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}