The FCUP and why cadets should request them immediately

[Pylon]

DC,

  Thanks for the tip!  We may try doing that ourselves if you have had better luck doing it that way.   

We do the same here.

On membership in-processing night, we take applications & checks for new members.  They go through several stations (paperwork, uniforms, photo, etc.).  They try on blues from our existing stock of uniforms for size, and it gets recorded on a sheet.  When the membership applications process and the recruits show up in E-services, I just need to grab that sheet and enter a handful of FCU requests.  Takes about 10-20 minutes depending how many you have.

[NIN]

The old FCU process was a "push":  the user (cadet) requested the FCU as part of their new member paperwork (CAPF 15) and it went to NHQ and "pushed"  the process.  

The current process is a "pull," in that expects the user (cadet or parents) to take action to instantiate the FCU process.   A push process is often event driven, where as a pull process often waits for either time or user action to start.  

There is a lot of room for error with a "pull" when you're expecting a 13 year old cadet to do it.  Or his 35 year old mom who is not terribly computer-literate.