Your journey in the CAF is one of empowerment
Video / November 16, 2023
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My name is Anastasia Karakoy. I am a naval logistics officer on board HMCS Max Bernays, Canada's newest Arctic and off-shore patrol ship. In my position, my team and I hold the experience and the knowledge to know how to navigate a variety of important resources pertaining to compensation, benefits, and work-life balance.
We understand that this knowledge isn’t common across the Canadian Armed Forces. This is something that I believe that the CAF Offer can assist members with. The CAF Offer provides members and their family with an open source platform from which they can learn more about the compensation and benefits they're entitled to throughout their military career.
Nearly eight years later, with countless stories and experiences, I still feel as though the CAF has offered me more than I could have ever imagined to be offered at the beginning of this journey. Having emigrated from Ukraine in 2001, my parents worked very hard to establish us here in Canada. For a long time, after we all gained our citizenship, my parents would struggle to hold back proud tears at the sound of our national anthem.
I really believe that knowledge is perhaps one of the most effective tools of empowerment we could have. My own journey of empowerment began when I was just ten years old and my father was working at the Canadian Forces recruiting centre in London, Ontario, that is where he had first learned about the Regular Officer Training Program and the chance for his daughter to have a post secondary education paid for.
Aside from the solid foundation that the paid scholarship made in my own establishment, considering the life and opportunity I've been granted as a Canadian citizen, there really didn't seem to be any career path more fitting for me than to serve Canada. I'll forever be grateful for the information that my father was able to pass along to spark my journey with the CAF. Increasing the accessibility of information on what the CAF has to offer holds great potential to empower our members and their families. See for yourself what the CAF has to offer.