Major Denise Sweet

Major Denise Sweet enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces in June 2003 under the Regular Officer Training Plan as a Construction Engineering Officer. She graduated from the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), in 2007, with a Bachelor of Science in Space Science. Between her third and fourth year at RMC she took advantage of an opportunity to work at the International Space University in Strasbourg, France.

Upon graduation from Construction Engineer training in April 2008, Major Sweet was posted to the Construction Engineering section at 14 Wing Greenwood, in Nova Scotia, where she was employed as the 141 Construction Engineering Flight Commander, Operations Officer Requirements Officer and Acting Wing Construction Engineering Officer before deploying to Kandahar Airfield to work as the Vertical Infrastructure Coordinator for Regional Command (South) HQ, from October 2010 to May 2011.

Upon return from Afghanistan, Major Sweet completed a Masters of Engineering in Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering at the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and subsequently posted to the Mapping and Charting Establishment (MCE) in June 2013. During her posting to MCE she worked as the Survey Troop Commander, Operations Officer of Geospatial Information and Services (GI&S) Squadron, Unit Operations Officer and the Canadian representative of the Allied System for Geospatial Intelligence Operational Control Center (AOCC) at RAF Wyton.

In June of 2016, Major Sweet left MCE and to work at Real Property Operations (RP Ops) Central as the Officer Commanding RP Ops Detachment National Capital Region (NCR). 

In July 2018, she returned to MCE to fill her current role as Deputy Commanding Officer.