Biography
Chief Warrant Officer J.A.S. Berthiaume, CD
Chief Warrant Officer
J.A.S. Berthiaume
Chief Warrant Officer Berthiaume was born in St-Elzear, PQ. While going to High School, he joined the Navy Reserve Force where he spent two years with the HMCS Montcalm in Quebec and sailed on a minesweeper training ship and a destroyer.
In the fall of 1970, he joined the Regular Forces as a 231 Radar Technician and proceeded on his electronic training at Kingston, ON. Following his graduation, and while progressing through the ranks, he served at the following radar sites across the country; Foymount, ON, Holberg, BC, Moisie, PQ, Gypsumville, MAN, and Barrington, NS.
In the summer of 1986, he left the radar chain to move to Colorado Springs. For the next four years, he worked as an instructor for the US Air Force on the Ballistic Missiles Early Warning (BMEWS) and the PAVE PAWS systems.
Promoted to MWO in 1990, he moved to Air Force Space Command where he worked on a Global Communication System Project. In 1991, CWO Berthiaume was transferred to Ottawa to the Canadian Coastal Radar (CCR) project and went on to the North Warning System (NWS) in 1994 where he worked on a various systems to end-up as the Canadian Forces Radome LCMM.
Upon his promotion to CWO in 1999, he assumed the responsibilities of the Command and Control Information System Flight CWO, the Maintenance and Installation Supervisor (MIS), and the school CWO at Aerospace Telecommunication Engineering Support Squadron (ATESS) Trenton.
In 2003 was appointed as the Communications and Electronics Branch Chief Warrant Officer until his retirement in July 2005. In late September 2005, he then joined the Air Reserve Flight, and is presently employed as the MODID 0109 (ATIS Tech) Senior trade advisor.
