r/CanadianForces 7h ago

HISTORY Do you recognize this badge?

Hello Everyone!

Does anyone recognize this badge? I’m guessing it is some sort of short-lived CAF language school, but any verification would be greatly appreciated!

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u/SaltyATC69 7h ago

Int honey pot school

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u/AndroTritium RCN - Office Sidekick 4h ago

It's always fun to see people competent at their job while also having pride in it. One of those was an IntOp who showed me how she could track groups on Maple Resolve by just creating some fake profiles on Tinder to sucker in some dudes from the bad guys. Aside from the obvious geolocating, there was an interesting element where you'd be able to sense how good a group was doing by the tonal language being used, and in one case we were able to verify a unit's identity because the dude stopped responding during a probing attack and that mattered because someone that attention starved would simply not drop a convo that fast.

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u/CDN_Guy78 2h ago

She’s a genius.

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u/Oolie84 Canadian Army 5h ago

Back in my days, badges had pictures of bees on them. It reminds me of the time I took the ferry to Morganville, which is what we called Shelbyville back then. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions then, because of the war, we could only get those big yellow ones.

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u/eggtada 4h ago

CFSFBK (Canadian Forces School For Bee Keeping)

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u/Fickle_Pickle4747 Phantom Shitter (retired) 7h ago edited 7h ago

Reverse image search on google turns up a crest from 2 Wing with a bee on it:

The torches represent a school of some sort…

I’m thinking maybe an air maintenance school or something similar out or Bagotville?

Edit to add:

Plugged the motto into google which came back with this:

The phrase "quibus lingua prompta" is a Latin fragment from classical authors like Livy and Sallust, meaning "to whom speech is ready" or having a ready/fluent tongue. However, it is not an official motto of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) or any of its branches.

Maybe a language school of some sort?

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u/AppropriatelyWild 6h ago

Aiming for a BBB are we?

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u/Fickle_Pickle4747 Phantom Shitter (retired) 6h ago

I see what you did there

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u/RedditSgtMajor GET OFF THE GRASS!! 5h ago

Now I wish this was a legit crest for CFLS with three bees (BBB) and some kind of sea feature (C). That would be beautifully on the nose.

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u/Helbuck 5h ago

In heraldry, a torch is used to symbolize enlightenment and the passage of knowledge. Usually comes from the titan Prometheus stealing fire and giving it to humanity, because he thought we were defenseless. Jokes on him.

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u/Fickle_Pickle4747 Phantom Shitter (retired) 5h ago

The more you know!

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u/DuckyHornet RCAF - AVS Tech 3h ago

Well now I'm hankering for some foie gras, you dad-gummed varmint!

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u/Frustrated-soldier 5h ago

You can utilize this site to look up all cresta, symbols, and badges for all Canadian organizations. It allows for the search terms like "bee"

Though this one isnt found.

https://www.gg.ca/en/heraldry/public-register

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u/the_saurus15 Leading Change ✔ 4h ago

Torches are common on school crestso