Meritorious Service Cross
- Awarded on: February 18, 2022
- Invested on: November 09, 2023
Rank: Corporal
From June 2018 to May 2020, Corporal Oakes, an electronic intelligence analyst at Canadian Forces Electronic Warfare Centre (CFEWC) in Ottawa, Ontario, designed a new analytic tool that considerably increased the efficiency of the international operational electronic intelligence community. His singular sense of innovation has greatly enhanced the ability of the Canadian Armed Forces and key allies to correctly identify land-based electronic intelligence and validate new geo-locatable operational electronic intelligence. Corporal Oakes’s exceptional achievement established CFEWC as a significant contributor to intelligence partnerships.
