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Operations => Emergency Services & Operations => Topic started by: coudano on March 02, 2011, 07:18:56 PM

Title: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: coudano on March 02, 2011, 07:18:56 PM
anyone know what is the current status of teaching comm using bcut and acut?
is the new icut out?  does it have a projected date?

we have a class coming up, and can't get straight answers on this.
is it a waste to teach bcut/acut this month, will everyone have to turn around and do icut immediately?

can icut be taught in residence/in classroom?
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: Spaceman3750 on March 02, 2011, 07:21:04 PM
I've been hearing "a couple of months" for about the last year now. I'm not sure anyone knows.

Honestly, I'm not looking forward to ICUT unless they make it so it can be taught in the classroom too. Where I'm at, it's way easier to get my people together on a Saturday than it is to get them to take an online class.

Besides that, without the hands-on practice that is usually done in BCUT/ACUT classes radio etiquette will go further down the tubes than it already is.
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: Eclipse on March 02, 2011, 07:56:10 PM
My understanding is that the lower-level iCuts will be online refreshers for current card holders, but it isn't a "waste" to teach A/B because
there's nothing else to teach right now and nothing in the immediate future on the new stuff.
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: CAPSGT on March 02, 2011, 07:57:01 PM
Hearing "a couple of months" for the last year?  I think I've been hearing "soon" for at least 3 years now
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: coudano on March 02, 2011, 08:05:56 PM
allright then we are going to go ahead and teach bcut and acut
thanks yall
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: SarDragon on March 02, 2011, 08:24:12 PM
We have maintained our once a quarter, at the group level, BCUT/ACUT schedule for about 8 years now, and just finalized the 2011 dates. Keep on keepin' on.
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: DKruse on March 02, 2011, 11:35:31 PM
Check with your chain of command.  I just taught a BCUT class and my wing DC gave the guidance to continue with the standard ACUT/BCUT training material.
Title: Re: bcut/acut // icut status
Post by: arajca on March 03, 2011, 02:50:38 AM
At this time, there is no projected release date for I-CUT. The Comm Team stopped trying to guess, since no else is even thinking about it when they give Comm more work.

I would say when Hell freezes over, but we were almost there in Jan. Or so it seemed.