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Operations => Emergency Services & Operations => Topic started by: USAFgirl on November 11, 2010, 02:30:34 PM

Title: radio communications card
Post by: USAFgirl on November 11, 2010, 02:30:34 PM
hello! I just renewed my membership and i was looking at my radio communications card and it said that it was renewed with the membership. I definitely need a new one, my old one kinda got ruined from encampment :(
Thanks to anyone who can help me!
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: lordmonar on November 11, 2010, 02:36:13 PM
Not required any more.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: Eclipse on November 11, 2010, 03:57:00 PM
Quote from: lordmonar on November 11, 2010, 02:36:13 PM
Not required any more.

The physical card or the rating?

I know my wing still issues and pays attention to the cards.  "A" are lifetime, "B" is two years.

Your Wing DC (note that is not the Vice Commander) can provide a replacement, or if your wing still uses the WMU to track
the cards, yo can print your own.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: lordmonar on November 11, 2010, 07:54:38 PM
BCUT is required...but there is no requirment to have the card anymore.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: IceNine on November 11, 2010, 08:24:31 PM
Is she in your wing and does your wing say it's not required?

If not then Eclipse had the right answer.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: grp3eso on November 24, 2010, 03:43:51 PM
either way,  the Radio Authorization and the cap drivers license will appear on the 101 card in the near future.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: Eclipse on November 24, 2010, 04:09:42 PM
Quote from: grp3eso on November 24, 2010, 03:43:51 PM
either way,  the Radio Authorization and the cap drivers license will appear on the 101 card in the near future.

By future do you mean...

The average member's career?  1-3 years?

Or geologic time where a century is but a moment?
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: bosshawk on November 24, 2010, 10:36:11 PM
I seem to think that CAP uses geologic time.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: exFlight Officer on November 24, 2010, 10:49:56 PM
Quote from: grp3eso on November 24, 2010, 03:43:51 PM
either way,  the Radio Authorization and the cap drivers license will appear on the 101 card in the near future.

I would value this being on my 101 Card! What do you mean by "Future" ? How soon ? How did you come across this information ?

Thanks!
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: JoeTomasone on November 24, 2010, 11:48:40 PM
"Soon" (defined as "some time between now and the next ice age"), the BCUT and ACUT will give way to a new "ICUT" certification with online testing and tracking.   

FLWG still issues cards, needed or not.


Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: arajca on November 25, 2010, 12:46:31 AM
FYI... I-CUT is due to be released in Sept 2008.

Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: EMT-83 on November 25, 2010, 12:47:09 AM
I never understood why these aren't on the 101 card. If NIMS and CERT are there, something that's actually a CAP qualification shouldn't be a big deal to track.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: SarDragon on November 25, 2010, 01:12:52 AM
It requires someone to do programming on the eServices database to add the field and associated relationships. This is probably not a trivial effort, and will likely be accomplished when ICUT becomes a reality.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: Eclipse on November 25, 2010, 02:37:38 AM
Quote from: arajca on November 25, 2010, 12:46:31 AM
FYI... I-CUT is due to be released in Sept 2008.

OK, that was awesome...
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: Spaceman3750 on November 25, 2010, 10:25:04 AM
Quote from: SarDragon on November 25, 2010, 01:12:52 AM
It requires someone to do programming on the eServices database to add the field and associated relationships. This is probably not a trivial effort, and will likely be accomplished when ICUT becomes a reality.

Unless there is existing functionality for NHQ/DO to dynamically add new quals on the fly, which I suspect there is.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: EMT-83 on November 25, 2010, 02:29:33 PM
Hence the reference to NIMS and CERT.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: davidsinn on November 25, 2010, 03:28:22 PM
Quote from: Spaceman3750 on November 25, 2010, 10:25:04 AM
Quote from: SarDragon on November 25, 2010, 01:12:52 AM
It requires someone to do programming on the eServices database to add the field and associated relationships. This is probably not a trivial effort, and will likely be accomplished when ICUT becomes a reality.

Unless there is existing functionality for NHQ/DO to dynamically add new quals on the fly, which I suspect there is.

They added the ground handling video requirement pretty quickly...
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: grp3eso on November 26, 2010, 06:43:00 PM
by near i mean by the end of January 2011.  i am on the national IT committee and it is now on the 101 card in the development system. once they get the bugs ironed out it will go to production.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: arajca on November 26, 2010, 06:45:31 PM
Quote from: grp3eso on November 26, 2010, 06:43:00 PM
by near i mean by the end of January 2011.  i am on the national IT committee and it is now on the 101 card in the development system. once they get the bugs ironed out it will go to production.
Has anyone told the Communications Team at National about this? Particularly the time line.
Title: Re: radio communications card
Post by: grp3eso on November 26, 2010, 06:58:19 PM
i am sure that they are in the "loop" because the I-cut came up on our committee call. the comm folk need to update the IT folk on how to handle this.