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The Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) is a personnel branch of the Canadian Forces (CF) that
provides army engineering maintenance support. From the 1980s to 2013 it was called the Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
Branch.
The Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers came into being officially on 15 May 1944, with the fusion of various
elements from the Royal Canadian Engineers, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps and Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, following the
model of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME).
This is the beret badge used by the RECME. Of metal construction. Wide pin-back design. The front shows a horse standing
over the world. A scroll is placed by the horses head with the engineering group's initials. A crown is placed above that.
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With the increase of mechanized equipment during World War II, the need to have one corps dedicated to service and maintenance
thereof was becoming increasingly apparent. Trucks had become the de facto means of transportation and logistic support,
armoured vehicles had replaced cavalry, weapons were becoming more complicated, as well as the advent of radios and radar,
it was apparent that the previous model of having a different corps for each job was inadequate for a modern, mechanized army.
The original RCEME structure incorporated 25 different trades and sub-trades, employing specialists for each particular job in
order to train and deploy them in time to meet the war's demand. While it was somewhat bulky, it was nonetheless a centralized
structure for maintaining the Army's everyday equipment which was more efficient than the previous system of having each corps
perform its own equipment maintenance, and also allowed for a greater degree of specialization within trades.
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