The Communications and Electronics (C&E) Branch is a personnel branch of the Canadian Forces (CF). Personnel branch, in the Canadian Forces (CF), refers to a grouping of related military occupations. ... The Canadian Forces (French: Forces canadiennes) are the combined armed forces of Canada. ...

Uniform

• Cap badge:
• Army shoulder title:
  • English: "SIGNALS" (all uniforms)
  • French: "TRANS" (Service Dress tunic), "TRANSMISSIONS" (all other uniforms)
• Miscellaneous:
  • Officers may wear box spurs with Mess Dress, perpetuating the cavalry heritage of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (through the Royal Canadian Engineers)
  • The Signalman's trade qualification badge (worn on the lower sleeve of the Service Dress jacket) is the only such trade badge that features colours (blue and white) instead of just gold

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Customs and traditions

• Colonel-in-Chief: Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal

Flag of the Communications and Electronics Branch

• Branch flag: Horizontal bicolour, French grey (Munsell Notation 5PB5/2) over dark blue (Munsell Notation 7.5PB2/2). It is commonly believed that the colours of the flag represent "grey skies over blue waters"; however, the colours were inherited from the officer's Mess Dress uniforms of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals (RCCS), which were in turn inherited from the 21st Lancers, the first unit of Major Carruthers, founder of the RCCS
• Home Station: CFB Kingston, Ontario
• Motto: Velox Versutus Vigilans (Latin, "Swift, Skilled, Alert"); motto inherited from the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
• Nickname:
  • "Jimmies" – after "Jimmy", the nickname given to the Roman god Mercury as patron (and insignia) of Signals in Commonwealth countries; the origin of this particular sobriquet for the god is unknown
  • "Sigs" – after the abbreviation of "Signals"
  • "Sig Pigs" – rhyming slang name; sometimes used deprecatingly by non-Signalmen, generally with pride by Signalmen
  • "Rubberheads" - Nickname applied only to Communicator Research personnel; considered pejorative or insulting when used by non-Communicator Research personnel. Etymology is unknown
• Authorized march: "The Mercury March"
• Branch colours: French grey and dark blue
• Miscellaneous:
  • Signals units (including Communication Reserve units) follow the Cavalry practice of naming their units "Regiment" for "Battalion", "Squadron" for "Company", and "Troop" for "Platoon".
  • Private (rank)s in Signals units are styled "Signaller" (Sig).

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Occupations

Military occupations and military occupation codes (MOCs) within the Branch are listed below. Also listed are the uniform environment restrictions.

Order of precedence

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