Canadian Forces Fleet School Esquimalt (CFFSE) first opened in Naden, Building 92 on 8 October 1958 as the Naval Technical School. Since then, CFFSE has evolved to become a comprehensive naval training facility, conducting over 200 courses for the full breadth of naval occupations for non-commissioned service members.
To meet its mission of training sailors in the general knowledge and skills required for naval operations, CFFSE conducts occupational training, junior leadership training, sea environmental training and fleet refresher training. To meet these diverse training demands, CFFSE employs a team of almost 400 professionals drawn from a broad range of military and civilian occupations.
CFFSE is made up of a Headquarters Group and seven operational training divisions: Combat, Seamanship, Marine Systems Engineering, Combat Systems Engineering, Damage Control, Warfare Training and Primary Leadership Qualification Training. The school occupies 34 buildings which are dispersed throughout the region.
CFFSE has approximately fifty training systems which range from actual equipment to simulators and emulators of a wide variety of systems. The recently commissioned Damage Control Training Facility, Galiano, located in Colwood is now fully operational. This state-of-the-art facility provides near real-world simulations of a variety of shipboard damage control scenarios. It is an invaluable asset; ensuring sailors in the Navy have the necessary essential training to deal with the possibility of fire, flood or shipboard damage at sea. The School continues to modernize its learning environment as it moves from a traditional ‘chalk and talk’ approach to computer-based learning applications and increased emphasis on network-based distributed learning.
Commanding Officer - Cdr McRae
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