Chief Warrant Officer's Biography

Chief Petty Officer 1^st Class (CPO1) Cavel Shebib enrolled in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1991 as a naval weapons technician in Sydney, N.S. and he feels he has been very lucky to have had the amazing career that he has had thus far. Since 2014 alone, he completed the year-long French course, then sailed for a year each in His Majesty’s Canadian Ships (HMCS) Fredericton and Ville de Québec as the Combat Systems Engineering Chief Petty Officer, followed by an appointment as the Atlantic Fleet Combat Systems Engineering Chief. After being in that position for a year, he was promoted to the rank of Chief Petty Officer 1^st Class and assumed the role of honors and recognition chief for Maritime Forces Atlantic for a year. In 2018, he was appointed as Coxswain in HMCS St. John’s, following that, in August 2020 he was posted to the Chief Warrant Officer Robert Osside Profession of Arms Institute in Saint-Jean, Que., as the Intermediate Leadership Program and then the Senior Leadership Program Director. Following his two years in Quebec, he was appointed as the Atlantic Fleet Chief in July 2022 and in June of 2024, will be appointed as RMC Saint Jean’s CWO.

During his career, he has had several deployments all over Europe and the Middle East, including several Standing NATO Maritime Group One deployments, Operation APOLLO in 2001 and Op REASSURANCE in 2015. He was also involved in Op PERSISTENCE, which was the Canadian Armed Forces’ recovery operation after the Swiss Air crash near Peggy’s Cove, N.S., in 1998. His most memorable deployment was in 2010 when he spent eight months patrolling in the Western Panjwai District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan as a Tactical CIMIC operator and platoon 2 I/C, ending his tour as a CIMIC Platoon Commander.

CPO1 Shebib has completed the Defense and Security Certificate Program through Algonquin College and is an avid reader. He is a huge proponent of the positive impacts of exercise and spending time in the outdoors on our mental health and is an avid hiker.

CPO1 Shebib and his partner have 4 children between them.