AFCEA Communication Reserve Science Engineering Education Award for 2007

The 2007 recipient of the Communication Reserve Science Engineering Education Award for Non-Commissioned Members is Warrant Officer Leslie Mah of 746 (Calgary) Communication Award.  The award includes a $1,000 education award and a one-year subscription to Signal magazine.

WO Mah has been a member of the Communication Reserve for 17 years.  As a Land Communications and Information Systems (LCIS) Technician, he has served two tours of United Nations duty with Operation DANACA in the Middle East.  He has served with 73 Communication Group Headquarters in Edmonton as the Group Training Sergeant and Operations Warrant Officer.  For many years, he has demonstrated his instructional and leadership abilities, with the Communication Reserve Schools for Basic Training and Primary Leadership and with the Canadian Forces School of Communications and Electronics.

Currently, WO Mah is employed part-time with 746 Communication Squadron as the Signal Troop Warrant Officer while excelling as a full-time student completing his Geomatics Engineering Technology program at Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) in Calgary.

The AFCEA Education Award was presented to WO Mah during the annual parade for all members of 746 Communication Squadron which precedes the traditional Christmas Dinner for the junior ranks.  In attendance for the brief ceremony (and to assist in serving the dinner) were: 

Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Terry Cockerill, BSc, PMP, CD

Biographical Sketch

Terry Cockerill was born in Lindsay, Ontario.  At age 16 he joined the Royal Canadian Artillery (Militia) while attending high school.  He graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada with a Bachelor of Science (Applied) in 1970.  Upon completion of Signal Officer training, Lt Cockerill was posted to Quartier-general et Escadron des Transmissions (QG ET) in Valcartier, Quebec.  Capt Cockerill was posted to Lahr, Germany in 1973 as Battalion Signal Officer for the 1^st Battalion, Royal 22e Regiment and subsequently as a Troop Commander with 4 CMBG Headquarters and Signal Squadron.  In 1976 he returned to QG ET in Valcartier as Deputy Commanding Officer.  Upon promotion to Major in 1978 he was posted to Force Mobile Command Headquarters in St Hubert, Quebec as an Operations staff officer.  Upon completion of Canadian Forces Command and Staff College course in Toronto in 1982, he was appointed as Commanding Officer of QGET, his third tour to Valcartier.  In 1984, he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and posted as a member of the Directing Staff at the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College in Kingston for three years.  From July 1987 to July 1989, he served as Commanding Officer of the 1^st Canadian Division Headquarters and Signal Regiment in Kingston.  He was then posted to Communication Command Headquarters at Tunney's Pasture in Ottawa as Deputy Chief of Staff Reserves for the Communication Reserve, where he served for three years until retiring from the Regular Force in 1992.  Terry Cockerill joined the Iris Project team at Computing Devices Canada in Ottawa, and was transferred to the newly created Communications Systems Division of CDC in Calgary in 1993.  He now has over 15 years service with General Dynamics Canada (formerly CDC) in a range of project management positions associated with the Canadian Army's digitization projects (Tactical Command and Control Communications Systems (TCCCS), Land Force Command System (LFCS) and Land Command Support System).  During this time he has maintained his association with the military C&E community and in particular with the members of Director Land Command System Program Management (DLCSPM).