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SLt T. Clausen
Cadet Program Affiliation:
Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets
Sub-Lieutenant Clausen is the Band
Officer at #263 RCSCC BEACON HILL.
Tristan began his involvement with
Cadets because "Everyone Else Was Doing It." Prior to joining
Cadets, Tristan was heavily involved in karate, specifically,
Shito-Ryu Seikokai. Tristan became quite prominent in his local
club, but at the ripe age of fourteen was not yet grown-up and
didn’t know how to handle being the most senior student in the youth
class. As a result, Tristan became disillusioned and ended up
quitting. Luckily, shortly after Tristan learned that all of his
friends were Air Cadets, and his dearest friend and he decided to
try it.
Boy, was that, a mistake, since
they’re both members of the Cadet Instructor Cadre, now. Tristan
began in January, 2000, as a young AC at 386 Komox RCAC Squadron, in
Comox, BC. He was accelerated through the first two levels fairly
quickly, and by the summer of 2003 was fortunate enough to hold
positions such as Flight Commander and Drum Major before moving to
Nanaimo to pursue his musical pursuits at Malaspina
University-College. Since he was still old enough to stay a Cadet,
he and his friend—the same one!—joined 205 Collishaw RCACS and
Tristan was able to “retire” as a Cadet Warrant Officer 2nd
Class the following spring.
He couldn’t quite get away, though,
and found himself volunteering as a music instructor at both the
Nanaimo Squadron and the local Sea Cadet corps. Tristan spent that
first year kind of on the periphery, growing his hair out way longer
than anybody really ought to. Tristan found his first summer as a
free man too much to bear, and by the next April, the Sea Cadet
corps CO had him signed up as a young “snotty” and Tristan was
shipped all over Vancouver Island in the summer to receive crash
courses in things like how to be a naval officer and then he was
sent off to QUADRA for his first summer.
The next year, he moved to Victoria
where he still resides with his fiancée, studying to be a music
teacher.
Tristan joined Cadet World in 2002, and in
2008 he was in the right place at the right time to catch the baton
required to conduct the Music Company and Parade Square as
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